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