Scholastic Inc Library Summer (or Fall) Internship

Scholastic Inc/ Publishing company Corporate/ Special Library

557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

Located in SoHo neighborhood/ downtown Manhattan

(Broadway between Prince and Spring near Broadway -Lafayette subway station, Spring St Station and Prince St station)

The library serves the writers, editors, and other corporate staff at Scholastic Inc, the children’s book publisher.

Summer 2011 Internship Opportunities at Scholastic Inc/ SoHo

Note: We will also accept applications for Fall 2011 internship candidates at this time

Requirements: Library School Student must be enrolled in an internship course for school credit and must provide proof of registration in internship class.

Hours: Flexible

Position Description: As an intern at the Scholastic Library/Archives, the library school student will be exposed to the day-to-day workings of a corporate special library and archive.  The intern will learn the basics of maintaining an archival book collection and corporate reference work. The intern will assist the Library staff with various tasks including, but not limited to:

1. Assist in retrospective book cataloging project as well as in cataloging new and incoming books. 
2. Reference work, article searching, using ProQuest, Factiva, Nexis and other sources 
3. Archive maintenance

If interested, please send resume to library@scholastic.com  Karen Van Rossem 212-343-6188

KPMG LLP

Prospective intern should be detail-oriented and accurate and have a working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

Possible Duties and Projects:

·        Cataloging of books and digital media using Softlink Liberty software

·        Check-in journals using Liberty OPAC

·        Updating authority control files in Liberty

·        Entering circulation data from manual system to Liberty

·        Database maintenance – adding and deleting files

·        Processing books and pamphlets for offsite storage. Intern should be able to lift a 30 pound box.

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KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.

Interested applicants should contact Boris Musich, Research Manager, bmusich@kpmg.com , 212-909-5632.