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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