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By gsliscomm, December 17, 2012 6:39 pm

Iowa State University is accepting applications for the 2013 Lennox Foundation Preservation and Conservation Internship. This twelve (12) week internship is intended to give current graduate students and recent graduates of preservation and/or conservation programs the opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge of care and treatment of library and archives materials in an academic library. Interns will learn about the overall functioning and organization of the Preservation Department and will undertake and complete a project based on their interests and skills, and the needs and capabilities of the Department.

Eligibility and requirements:

• Applicants must currently be graduate students, in good standing, in a program of library and archives preservation administration or conservation; or a recent graduate of such a program;

• Applicants must have completed at least four preservation or conservation courses before the anticipated start date of this internship;

• Applicants must commit to 12 consecutive weeks of full-time employment as interns;

• Internship must be completed within the calendar year;

• At the end of the internship, the intern will be required to submit a final report or project;

• Applicants must have student or working visas if not U.S. citizens.

The 2013 Lennox Foundation Internship provides a $3,200 stipend, travel expenses to and from Ames, and housing expenses.

For more information see:

http://parkslibrarypreservation.wordpress.com/lennox-foundation-internship/

To apply for the Lennox Foundation Preservation and Conservation Internship please submit the following items: cover letter; current resume; contact information for two professional references (include address, phone number and e-mail address); statement of interest (include projects of interest); graduate program description including requirements and course descriptions (indicate the classes you have completed).

Deadline for application is January 17, 2013

Submit these items to:

Melissa Tedone
Lennox Foundation Internship
Iowa State University
441 Parks Library
Ames, IA 50011-2140

Send electronic applications to: tedone@iastate.edu

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By gsliscomm, September 25, 2012 3:47 pm

The City of Boston Archives preserves Boston’s municipal archival records by means of facilities, programs and procedures for physical accommodation, security, environmental control and document conservation. The City Archives makes Boston’s municipal archival records accessible to the public by means of document finding aids, reference procedures and the promotion of public use, and ensures ready access to essential evidence that documents the rights of citizens, the actions of municipal officials and Boston’s historical municipal experience.
Under the supervision of archivists, the Photographs Intern will rehouse, catalog, and digitize a collection of photographs from Boston’s Landmarks Commission. The intern will use Archivist’s Toolkit to create a finding aid which will be posted on the Archives’ website. Additionally, the intern will select photographs for digitization, scan photographs, and post photographs on the Archives’ flickr page and other social media outlets.
Interns should be enrolled in or have recently completed an Archives Management program. Previous experience cataloging photographs, creating metadata, and using Archivist’s Toolkit is preferred but not required.
This internship is unpaid. To apply, please send a resume and email stating your interest to archives@cityofboston.gov

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By gsliscomm, September 25, 2012 2:08 pm

FALL 2012 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SIMMONS COLLEGE GSLIS STUDENTS

WHAT?

The Bay Path College Archives project needs your help! If you have an interest in academic library archives, the Hatch Library staff at Bay Path College invites you to consider interning with us this semester. We would currently welcome one or more Simmons interns who could help us review the contents of various boxes to prepare them for storage, make classification decisions, and develop finding aids.

WHERE?

Bay Path College is a dynamic private college located in nearby Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Since our founding in 1897, we have emphasized a career-focused curriculum that prepares students to become professionals and leaders in their fields. Our innovative programs for undergraduate women, our One-Day-a-Week Saturday program, twelve graduate programs for men and women, and Bay Path Online have made us a pioneer among our peer colleges.

The Hatch Library supports the college’s 2,300+ residential and commuter students, online students from throughout the United States and beyond, programs on all levels and at two satellite campuses, in Charlton and Burlington, MA, and is open seven days a week year round.

WHEN?

During the academic year (September-May) our library is open for the following hours:
*Monday-Thursday 8 AM – 10 PM
*Friday 8 AM – 5 PM
*Saturday 7 AM – 7 PM
*Sunday 1 PM – 10 PM
We welcome GSLIS interns to work with one or more of our librarians at any of these hours

LEARN MORE:

For library information, go to our web site: http://library.baypath.edu. For more details about this opportunity, contact Library Director Mike Moran (413-565-1284)
mmoran@baypath.edu

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By gsliscomm, September 25, 2012 1:43 pm

State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections Department

Preservation Internship – Fall 2012

The State Library of Massachusetts seeks a preservation intern with proven hand skills and interest in preservation and conservation. State Library internships are unpaid, but provide students with valuable work experience in a unique library setting. The library is conveniently located in downtown Boston in the Massachusetts State House, one block from the Park Street MBTA station. Our operating hours are Monday through Friday 9-5.

Since the early nineteenth century, the State Library has continuously collected materials that reflect Massachusetts’ government, culture and history, and continues to maintain the most comprehensive collection of Massachusetts state publications in existence. The Library has an active program to make its collections available through public programs, exhibitions, and digitization.

The State Library’s Special Collections Department includes items that need special care due to their age, fragility, or format. Holdings comprise rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, newspapers, tax valuations, architectural drawings, prints and photographs, scrapbooks, and souvenirs. The collection is particularly strong in nineteenth and twentieth-century city directories, maps, and atlases.

Preservation Internship

The preservation intern will assist Special Collections staff with the preservation aspects of a special project to digitize Massachusetts atlases, and the creation of enclosures for ephemeral items in the library’s Massachusetts Room collection. Other possible projects include building phase boxes, exhibit preparation, document repair, digitization, and surface cleaning and digitization of manuscript maps from the 1800s. The intern will be responsible for keeping repair statistics and writing entries about their work for the library’s blog.

The preservation intern should have excellent spoken and written English and be able to schedule their internship hours between 9am and 5pm, Monday through Friday. We request a minimum weekly commitment of four hours, and prefer one or two days per week.

The preservation intern should have completed LIS 439: Preservation Management prior to the application for internship, or have commensurate work experience. Enrollment in or completion of LIS 447: Collection Maintenance and/or LIS 471: Photographic Archives and Visual Information is desired.

Additionally, the intern should have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and Adobe Photoshop. Hand-skills are an important characteristic for the intern and ideal candidates will have experience with an activity that exhibits hand dexterity, especially previous preservation experience.

For more information, contact the Special Collections Department: special.collections@state.ma.us, or 617-727-2595. To apply for this internship, please send a cover letter and resume to special.collections@state.ma.us.

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By gsliscomm, September 25, 2012 1:36 pm

State Library of Massachusetts – Special Collections Department

Reference Internship – Fall 2012

The State Library of Massachusetts is offering an unpaid reference internship in its Special Collections Department. The internship will start on October 1, 2012, and will continue at least through the end of the fall semester, with the possibility of extension through the end of the academic year.

This internship provides the student with valuable work experience in a unique library setting. The library is conveniently located in downtown Boston in the Massachusetts State House. We request a minimum commitment of eight hours per week, preferably in two four-hour shifts. Number of hours and schedule are negotiable but must be filled during the department’s public hours of Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Since the early nineteenth century, the State Library has continuously collected materials that reflect Massachusetts’ government, culture and history, and continues to maintain the most comprehensive collection of Massachusetts state publications in existence. Its collection has been carefully and thoughtfully gathered for over 185 years, and it forms a tremendous resource for all areas of Massachusetts’ research. The Library has an active program to make its collections available through public programs, exhibitions, and digitization.

The State Library’s Special Collections Department includes items that need special care due to their age, fragility, or format. Holdings comprise rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, newspapers, tax valuations, architectural drawings, prints and photographs, scrapbooks, and souvenirs. The collection is particularly strong in nineteenth and twentieth-century city directories, maps, and atlases.

For more information, contact the Special Collections Department: special.collections@state.ma.us, or 617-727-2595.

To apply for this internship, please send a cover letter and resume to special.collections@state.ma.us.

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By gsliscomm, September 25, 2012 1:30 pm

The Art Libraries Society of North America is now accepting applications for its annual Internship Award for 2013.

The ARLIS/NA Internship Award provides financial support for students preparing for a career in art librarianship or visual resources curatorship. The award grants $2,500.00 to the selected recipient to support a period of internship in an art library or visual resources collection.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2012.

For detailed information about the award and application instructions please see the ARLIS/NA website: http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/internship_info.html

ARLIS/NA Internship Award Sub-Committee

Greta Bahnemann (chair)

Amy Ballmer

Philip Dombowsky

Martha González Palacios

Adrienne Lai

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By gsliscomm, September 24, 2012 1:28 pm

Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group (NPAG) is an executive search and consulting firm dedicated to serving the mission-driven community. We partner with global mission-driven clients in the academic, nonprofit, and public sectors to deliver highly-tailored, innovative, and strategic senior- and executive-level search services.

NPAG has been recognized nationally and internationally for not only its success as a consulting business, but also for its commitment to enriching the capacity of the nonprofit sector through active participation in sector-wide training and dialogue. Yet, we are most unique in having designed a virtual firm that optimizes our networks through consultant locations in Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Atlanta as well as locations in Europe and South America. Our virtual model allows us to provide higher quality, lower cost, and fully flexible services to clients, while also offering employees a creative, energetic, and family-friendly work place.

Now in our 10th year of operation, the past three years have been marked by significant strategic investments to reinforce the framework supporting our rapid growth including implementing an upgraded database platform, outlining a new marketing program for 2012, and making key hires to increase bench strength. In that vein, NPAG seeks a talented and detail-oriented Research & Administrative Intern with an interest in the mission-driven sector to serve a dual role and enhance our existing administrative and research infrastructure over the period of a one year paid-internship.

Reporting into the Director of Executive Administration, the Research & Administrative Intern will partner with the Director to perform advanced, diversified and confidential administrative tasks for the NPAG staff. This includes executing electronic mailings, posting employment ads to various online sites such as LinkedIn, performing data entry, preparing documentation for client presentations including the handling of confidential resumes, and serving as the liaison on escalated IT matters as needed.

The Research & Administrative Intern will also report into the Director of Research who will serve as a mentor and guide to conducting high quality Internet research on nonprofit organizations and executives. This research is the backbone supporting the day-to-day recruiting activities of the firm and requires the strictest attention to detail. In this capacity, the Research & Administrative Intern will learn how to use paid databases such as Guidestar and CASE along with creative Internet searching techniques to deliver appropriate results.

The right candidate will be able to handle multiple priorities with skill and professionalism, adapt well to a virtual work environment with diverse tasks and personalities, and handle all assigned tasks. S/he will preferably have knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, PDF software such as Adobe Acrobat, Encore, SharePoint, and exhibit an ability to learn new software systems and processes quickly.

Applicants must be self-motivated, strongly detail-oriented, boundlessly curious, intellectually agile, quick-thinking, and have a commitment to delivering the highest quality of customer service. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have a comfort working flexible hours as needed, and a strong personal commitment and understanding of the various segments that make up the nonprofit community. This role requires that the candidate already maintain a home computer or laptop and home telephone or mobile phone.

TO APPLY
Applications including a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications and resume (in Word format) should be sent to: npag-intern@nonprofitprofessionals.com

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By gsliscomm, September 17, 2012 1:39 pm

Library/Archives Intern, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
The Salzburg Global Seminar is an institution focused on global change, a place where innovative ideas lead to practical solutions. As an independent, neutral forum, the Salzburg Global Seminar engages current and future leaders in candid discussion to inspire creative thinking and to pioneer strategies for change. Each year, more than 1,000 professionals from over 100 countries gather at the Seminar’s impressive rococo palace at Schloss Leopoldskron for discussions on political, social, and cultural issues of universal concern (http://www.salzburgglobal.org/).
As part of its educational program, the Salzburg Global Seminar offers a three-month, non-accredited internship program. The Seminar is seeking for this summer, a qualified student or recent graduate to work in the Seminar’s small, but beautiful library and work on an archives digitization project. In preparation for the off-site storage of its institutional textual records, the intern will be responsible for the selection and digitization of historic documents dating from the seminar’s inception in 1947 until circa 1995, when born digital documents became standard for the seminar. The intern will also perform normal library duties such as: maintaining the periodicals department, cataloging acquisitions, general collections maintenance, and assisting with session preparation including the creation of bibliographies and recommending book purchases.

To qualify, candidates should be in or have just graduated from Simmons College/GSLIS with a concentration in archives management. Suitable candidates should have some experience working in a library, knowledge of current archives practices, the ability to work with a wide range of people, strong research skills, self-motivation, computer knowledge, and interest in the Seminar’s program. Due to visa and work permit regulations in Austria, qualified applicants are limited to citizens from the United States or the European Union. This is an unpaid internship, with travel to and from Salzburg provided, as well as room and full board at the Seminar.

There are four periods of time for which internships are available. These are:

January 20 – April 20, 2013
April 15 – July 15, 2013
July 10 – October 10, 2013
October 1 – December 15, 2013.

Please specify which internship period(s) are of interest in your cover letter.

Please send cover letter and resume to:
Heidi Downing, Current Library Intern (please email with questions or for additional information)
Email: hdowning@SalzburgGlobal.org
and
Cheryl Van Emburg, Director of Administration
Email: cvanemburg@SalzburgGlobal.org
Phone: +43 662 839830
Fax: +43 662 839837

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By gsliscomm, September 4, 2012 3:09 pm

Boston Biomedical Consultants, Inc. (BBC) actively analyzes the In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) industry, providing consulting services and market research capabilities to clients. IVD products are medical tests that examine samples to detect, diagnose, and manage medical conditions. This niche market generates >$40 billion in revenue and is in constant flux with new technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and new companies.

The Information Services Intern, under the supervision of the Information Services Manager, will perform a variety of duties to support the needs of the BBC staff, with a focus on original cataloging for the company’s digital repository of company reports and other client deliverables. BBC maintains an active database of information and is currently in the process of developing a digital archive of over 30 years of collected data in a variety of formats. Familiarity with the DSpace Digital Repository is preferable along with an interest in corporate librarianship .

Responsibilities:

• Edit scans of historical documents using Adobe Acrobat (cropping, rotating, OCR, etc.)
• Create original catalog records for historical BBC consulting reports using Dublin Core metadata standards and an IVD-specific controlled vocabulary list created by BBC
• Assist with weeding of physical library files, including removing duplicate items, scanning of papers and other documents before recycling original documents, etc.
• Other duties as assigned, including filing, assistance with research requests, etc.

Qualifications:

• B.S. or B.A.; current MLS student with completed coursework in corporate libraries and/or digital archiving preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn new information and quickly build a knowledge base
• Ability to carry out assigned duties independently and in an organized manner
• Experience using Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat (document editing/OCR)
• One to two years part‑time work experience, preferably in a library or office setting

The internship is a non-paid position. Scheduling would be decided upon based on candidate availability but should be within BBC’s working hours of 9am-6pm Monday-Friday. For consideration, please submit a resume and cover letter to Alicia Verno, Information Services Manager, at averno@bostonbiomed.com

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By gsliscomm, September 4, 2012 2:08 pm

Advanced Referencing Services Intern

Infotrieve is a global leader in information services and content management technology for businesses. For more than 20 years we have been providing corporate information centers, R&D facilities, and legal, business affairs and product professionals in more than half the Fortune 500 with a broad array of software solutions and services.

Position Overview:
As an Advanced Referencing Services Intern, you will gain real-world experience doing advanced referencing work for us in the scientific, medical and technical research fields. Infotrieve is a large employer of recent MLS graduates from many of the top library schools. Those who have participated in the internship that performed well will be given priority consideration in our future hiring plans. This position can be located from home or out of our Wilton, CT office for local candidates. Hours are flexible and can range from 10- 30 hours per week. This is a paid position at $10/hr.

Responsibilities

• Search across specialized databases including PubMed, OVID, Proquest, WorldCAT, OCLC, 1st Search, etc.
• Locate source publications containing hard-to-find items including journal articles, theses and dissertations, periodicals, conference proceedings and patents
• Obtain copyright permissions for hard-to-clear items
• Ensure citations are accurately matched to bibliographic records by consulting multiple online library catalogs
• Place interlibrary loans
• Initiate contact with publishers and vendors to obtain unusual items

Requirements

• Full time student pursuing MLIS
• 3.5 GPA or better out of 4.0 grading scale for undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) degrees
• Knowledge of university and library catalogues
• Proficiency using citation databases such as PubMed preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong PC skills

How to Apply
Please submit your resume and transcripts to careers@infotrieve.com and reference the position title in the subject line of the e-mail.

Learn more about Infotrieve by visiting our website at www.infotrieve.com