The New York City Board of
Correction (BOC) is seeking 4-6 Library Science Interns
Located in downtown Manhattan, The Board of Correction (BOC) is a city agency
that establishes and
ensures compliance with minimum standards regulating conditions of confinement
and correctional
health and mental health care in all City correctional facilities. The Board
monitors conditions in the
City’s jails, investigates serious incidents, evaluates the performance of the
Department of Correction,
reviews inmate and employee grievances, and makes recommendations in critical areas
of correctional
planning.
The BOC has been located in its current office for decades, and has undergone
waves of technology
and record-keeping changes over the years. Many, if not most, of its historical
documents are currently
stored in original paper form in our current space The BOC has an opportunity
for college student and
graduate student volunteers to help archive historical records that will be
available to future
generations, and also help plan and execute the way in which the BOC categorizes,
codes, digitizes, and
stores the entire collection of documents for an impending move to a new,
smaller, office space.
This internship is ongoing. Interns will work in teams under the supervision of
BOC staff familiar with
the documents and needs of the agency. Interns will each work a minimum of 120
hours. Interns may
be asked to stay on for additional time, depending on need.
Library Science majors are preferred. Cataloging, metadata, digital archiving
and database knowledge
and experience preferred. Applicants should be enrolled in an ALA-accredited
Library Science
program and have completed basic coursework in cataloging.
Application Dates:
Applications are accepted at any time.
Stipend/Compensation:
None
Applications Open To:
Undergraduate Student
Graduate Student
Categories:
Library Sciences
Contact & Application Information: Email cover letter, resume,
and transcript to amasters@boc.nyc.gov and chpark@boc.nyc.gov with the
subject line “BOC LIBRARIAN INTERN APPLICATION.” Applications without that
subject line
will not be reviewed.
Learn more and register: www.thearf.org/ilf-2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
About the SLA-NY Chapter Internship Program
Our internship program is sponsored and supported by our chapter members. It is designed to be as flexible as possible for both students and sponsors. For this reason we do not follow an academic calendar. We do ask that you become a student SLA member and commit at least 1 full business day per week to the internship. The more days per week you commit to the internship; the larger the pool of internship opportunities. Generally, host sites require that you be a currently matriculating graduate library school student.
The types of internships that our program offers vary greatly. We encourage you to express the types of internships you wish to explore. Below are just a few examples of our host sites:
- finance
- advertising
- market research
- law
- news / journalism
- publishing
- public relations
- nonprofit
Internship descriptions range from general reference, online research, to Intranet content indexing/management. In keeping with our flexibility directive, we believe that the student and the sponsor should clearly understand that along with some clerical-type duties, majority of the responsibilities of an intern is to learn new skill sets and add to their experience.
We ask that the sponsor supervises the intern with an ALA-accredited degreed librarian to ensure that the experience will be worthwhile and resume-building for the intern and provides the sponsor with professional quality work.
Most of our internships are located in Manhattan, but there have been exceptions. Generally our MLS students attend the following programs:
- Palmer SLIS, Long Island University - CW Post and Manhattan campuses
- Pratt Institute
- Queens College
- Rutgers University
- St. John's University
- University of Southern Connecticut.
Not a SLANY student member? SLA membership is recommended, but not required. Let us know how we can help you.
Contact Information
SLA Student Internships Chair | Heidi Weinkam Crowe sla_ny@yahoo.com |
LLAGNY Internships Co-Chair | Kit Hartnett, co-chair Proskauer Rose LLP 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036 (212) 969-5010 (212) 969-2931 (fax) khartnett@proskauer.com |
| LLAGNY Internships Co-Chair | Sonal Pandya, co-chair Linklaters LLP 1345 Ave of the Americas 18th Fl New York, NY 10105 (212) 830-9515 (212) 424-9100 (fax) sonal.pandya@linklaters.com |
Contact SLANY.