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Internship Opportunities for GSEIS Students

Are you a GSEIS student with a desire to develop your skills in cataloging and/or metadata? We may be able to match you with a supervisor and project that fits your talents.

Under the direction of an internship supervisor, our interns learn about:

  • Creating and enhancing MARC or non-MARC records in the shared (OCLC) utility database and/or the Digital Library Collections System (DLCS).
  • Verifying and/or creating authority records in the authority file.
  • Assigning subject headings to resources according to LCSH, MeSH, or other subject heading system.
  • Assigning LC or NLM classification (if cataloging MARC records).
  • Consulting and interpreting national and local guidelines for MARC and/or non-MARC metadata standards.
  • Resolving access problems for online resources, using the library’s E-Resources Management tools.
  • Using cataloging and metadata tools (e.g. OCLC Connexion, Catalogers Desktop, Classification Web, etc.).

Special Projects

Interns may also work on special projects that involve one or more of the following:

  • mapping among various metadata schema
  • reviewing and analyzing data
  • identifying strategies for extending and reusing existing metadata
  • developing efficient best practices for metadata application
  • evaluating reports and refining synchronization procedures for e-resources management system (ERMS), catalog, and link-resolver management
  • developing and testing RDA training for serials and integrating resources

Requirements

  • Coursework in descriptive cataloging and/or non-MARC metadata
  • Coursework in subject cataloging for MARC internships; coursework in subject cataloging (or equivalent) for non-MARC internships.

Preferred

  • Willingness to work for 2-3 quarters
  • Fluency in at least one language other than English

Desired

  • Coursework in indexing and thesaurus construction (if working with non-MARC metadata)

Interested? Please contact John Riemer, Head of the Cataloging & Metadata Center jriemer@library.ucla.edu

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