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Paid Summer Metadata Interns - Cambridge, MA

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, May 22, 2008
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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:
jgrodel@itasoftware.com