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Two Paid Summer Internship Opportunities – OCLC

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OCLC is excited to offer two paid summer internship opportunities in the OCLC Membership and Research Division, one working with a linked data project team and the other in the OCLC Library, Archive and Museum. We hope you’ll help promote these internship opportunities to your students! We’ve provided descriptions and application links below. The attached document provides additional information about the OCLC Library, Archive and Museum internship. Thanks for your assistance in sharing these opportunities with your students. We’d love to have applicants from IUPUI!

 

OCLC Membership and Research Team (Linked Data Project): OCLC is seeking an intern to join the Membership and Research team located at OCLC’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. During this paid internship, the intern will join a pilot project team that is investigating the use of “linked data” to enrich cultural heritage collection descriptions, assisting with project partner communications, library metadata analysis, and metadata conversion processes. Dates for the internship are from May 11, 2020 to August 14, 2020, working full time during the summer. Key activities include email and web conference communications with pilot project participants, evaluating user feedback for potential system improvements, and testing software and reporting bugs/problems. This is a great opportunity for students to gain experience in project team communications, software design and testing, data analysis and linked data transformation. Interested applicants should apply online via the OCLC website.

 

OCLC Library, Archive and Museum: OCLC is seeking an intern to join the OCLC Library, Archive and Museum team of librarians located at OCLC’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. The OCLC Library, Archive and Museum supports the information needs of OCLC staff and manages the organization’s corporate archive and museum. Throughout this paid internship, the intern may choose to work in these areas, or a combination: archives maintenance and data enhancement; museum exhibit research, creation and promotion; and library reference/research. The intern will gain insight into the work corporate libraries do daily, network with library professionals, learn about the types of libraries OCLC services, increase familiarity with OCLC products and services, and attend OCLC-sponsored events on a variety of professional topics. Dates for the internship are from May 11, 2020 to August 14, 2020 working full time during the summer months. Interns must currently be enrolled in a LIS, archives or museum studies graduate level program. Interested applicants should apply online via the OCLC website.

Position Announcement: Data Services Librarian for the Sciences at Harvard Library – Cambridge, MA

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Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by March 13, 2020.

Harvard Library is seeking a creative and self-motivated individual to help develop and coordinate research data services focused on the sciences and engineering. The Data Services Librarian for the Sciences (DSLS) will work with relevant stakeholders in developing guidelines and workflows of data management services to ensure good research practice, protection of intellectual property, proper storage and security of research data, compliance with relevant regulations, and appropriate access to research data. New outreach and programming developed by the DSLS will demonstrate an understanding of the research landscape, the role of campus partnerships, and the capabilities and limits of library support.

 

Reporting to the Head of Collection Development for the Division of Sciences and Engineering Services, and working in close collaboration with the manager of Harvard Library’s Research Data Management Program (HL-RDM), the Data Services Librarian for the Sciences will provide data and digital curation support, services, and training to members of the Harvard sciences and engineering community. This role will also advance the mission and objectives of Cabot Library, the Division of Sciences and Engineering Services, and the HL-RDM by building and sustaining relationships with partners across the research data lifecycle, and participating in relevant library-wide and Harvard-wide committees, working groups, projects, and events.

 

More information in the job posting

Opportunity for the School Library program – School of Education’s Annual Interview Day

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If you plan to seek employment in P-12 schools for fall 2020, mark your calendar now for the School of Education’s Annual Interview Day on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. This is your opportunity to interview with school districts from Indiana and a dozen states around the US. See the current list of registered schools HERE.

Don’t miss out on the chance to participate in pre-scheduled interviews with your selected schools!

  1. Upload your resume to Career Connections Online by March 22
  2. Receive your invitation by email on March 23 and sign up by April 3
  3. Receive and confirm your schedule on April 14

In the meantime, browse our Interviewing Guide, and see our Interview Day page for more details, including districts which have participated in the past.

Position Announcement: Community Health Outreach Assistant, IUPUI University Library

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Salary Information: $15.00 per hour.

 

Overview: University Library is seeking an energetic, health-focused graduate student to help support a community outreach partnership with the Indianapolis Public Library. The focus of the program is to provide consumer health information to under-served populations in Marion County. This position would be ideal for an MLS, MPH, MSW, or other outreach-related degree. The person in this position will gain program planning skills, public speaking experience, and marketing and communications skills.

 

Candidates must be sensitive to the needs of and possess an interest in working with communities that are diverse with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or identity, disability status, and protected veteran status.

 

 

Position Responsibilities:

  • Work with Principal Investigators, key personnel and partners to make and maintain community connections
  • Work with partners to organize events and programs, host events and activities, and recruit other staff and partners to participate
  • Coordinate communications and marketing of events, programs, and topics, including social media, print posters, flyers, newsletter or newspaper postings, mailings, website banners and news postings, etc.
  • Coordinate data gathering for grant assessments, including number of programs, and number of attendees, website usage, etc.
  • Coordinate reporting documents for grant and any other requirements for partners
  • Develop and/or collect needed programming and resource materials
  • Participate in on-going training and professional development opportunities
  • Participate in on-going performance review and self-evaluation processes

 

Required Qualifications:

  • IUPUI graduate student.
  • Valid driver’s license.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Positive attitude, good work ethic, and careful attention to detail.
  • Flexible and dependable.
  • Ability to complete mandatory training program.
  • Ability to work 20 hours a week, Monday-Friday, with some evening and weekend hours.
  • Minimum commitment of one year (Summer, Fall and Spring semester),with the potential for an ASAP start date.

 

To apply, please go to: https://one.iu.edu/task/iupui/jagjobs

Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship – Deadline March 1, 2020

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MAC is soliciting applications for the 2020 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Students of Color (http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley). The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to students of color pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession as a whole. Two $750 scholarships, accompanied by one-year memberships to MAC, will be awarded.

 

In order to be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be of African, American Indian, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Latinx decent; must be a student currently enrolled in or accepted in a graduate, multicourse program in archival administration; and must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in their academic program. If the program is not listed in the SAA Directory of Archival Education, http://www2.archivists.org/dae, the applicant must provide proof of the multicourse standard by submitting copies of course descriptions from the institution’s current departmental catalog. The applicant must also be either a resident of the MAC region or registered in a qualified program, onsite or online, that is based in the MAC region.

 

Applications are due March 1, 2020 and must include the following documents:

 

 

Completed applications should be sent to:

 

Lara Friedman-Shedlov

Description and Access Archivist

Kautz Family YMCA Archives

University of Minnesota Libraries

318 Elemer L. Andersen Library

222 21st Ave S, Ste 318

Minneapolis, MN 55405

Telephone: 612-626-7972

Email: Ldfs@umn.edu

 

Applications must be emailed or postmarked by March 1, 2020.

Awards will be announced no later than June 1, 2020.

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