Internship Opportunities at Scholastic Inc. - Fall 2011

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.

Fall 2011 Internship Opportunities at Scholastic Inc/ SoHo

 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

The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary - Multiple internship opportunities

The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary has numerous internship possibilities for library school students for the spring 2011 semester. Some of the internships require the ability to read Hebrew but for many Hebrew is not mandatory. Each student will be supervised by a librarian.

The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary holds the foremost collection in Judaica in the Western Hemisphere. With more than 400,000 printed books, The Library also houses manuscript codices, graphic art collections, archives, and is currently actively building its digital library. We are seeking Library School interns for many different projects within the Library. Some of them require subject knowledge and knowledge of Hebrew but many do not. It is a unique opportunity to work with very experienced librarians who will supervise and guide the student in each specific project. The Library is located at 3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street), New York, NY 10027.

For further information check our web page or please contact Naomi Steinberger, Director of Library Services, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary. nsteinberger@jtsa.edu or 212-678-8982.

Internships available for spring 2011:

1. Copy Cataloging projects specifically for people who are interested in specializing in Judaica Librarianship.

a. Cataloging books in foreign languages such as Turkish, Polish, Spanish, etc.

b. Cataloging out of print books in English and Hebrew for people with knowledge of Hebrew and interest in Jewish Studies including Special Collections materials.

c. Cataloging of ephemeral materials. There are many collections. Knowledge of art, music and/or knowledge of Hebrew.

d. Sorting, matching and cataloging rare and out of print sets of Hebrew Bibles.

e. Sorting books in Yiddish (knowledge of Yiddish required)


2. Serials:

a. Sorting and organizing old and scarce individual serials issues primarily in Hebrew and German


3. Reference services:

a. Creation of pathfinder in mutually agreed upon subject area (knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish studies necessary)

b. Updating Library's vertical files

c. Reference support for Special Collections Reading Room (knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish studies necessary)


4. Systems

a. Technical preparation of files for ingesting into Digital Assets Management System

5. Stack maintenance

a. Assist in shift and inventory of manuscript codices collection


6. Preservation

a. Rehousing books in boxes or four-flap enclosures

b. Placing documents in mylar

c. Photograph preservation