Summer Metadata Assistants / Interns

Join a team of metadata specialists and assistants (including other library
school students) to help launch an internal document management system
within a successful, rapidly growing software company. You'll get first-hand
experience with emerging portal and Internet technologies as you help
transition documents from various internal resources to structured and
managed intranet information systems. 

You will spend two thirds of your time on metadata for airline industry and
computer science documents. You will choose what projects you work on for
one third of your time. These projects can include: search engine
maintenance, user instruction, internal marketing, collection development,
original cataloging, or copy cataloging. For the technologically savvy
applicant, there are opportunities to customize or enhance our tools,
including an open source ILS and document management system.

Responsibilities:

- Apply metadata standards consistently to schema and past usage 
- Review documents for addition into the system and create appropriate metadata
- Review and edit existing metadata
- Perform other duties as assigned

Special Knowledge/Skills Required:

- Excellent customer service skills
- Attention to detail
- Enthusiasm for new technologies and subject areas

Qualifications:

- Experience and comfort using Windows XP, the Internet, word processing,
spreadsheets and email
- One or more semesters of graduate study in library science 
- Completion of a cataloging class preferable
- Available 40 hours a week for a minimum of 12 weeks 
- This position is on site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, minutes from MIT,
Harvard, and downtown Boston

Benefits include transit pass or parking in Cambridge and holiday pay.
Company caters two dinners and one lunch every week. Compensation is $15 an
hour. 

Please direct questions and resumes to Julka Grodel: [log in to unmask]


Also available at ITA's Library: Summer Engineering Internships

If working with our library for the summer as an engineering intern
interests you, take a look at the two main open-source software packages we
use -- KnowledgeTree and Koha -- and come up with some projects that you
think would be fun for you, and useful to a corporate library. Feel free to
run your ideas or questions by Julka  ([log in to unmask]) to see if
they're the sort of thing that fits in with the way we use or would like to
use these systems. 

http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/i_internships.html?catid=16