{"id":450,"date":"2013-08-06T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/virtual_internship_pictoscope_llc\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:50:13","slug":"virtual_internship_pictoscope_llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/virtual_internship_pictoscope_llc\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Internship, Pictoscope LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIBRARY INFO SCIENCE ONLINE INTERNSHIP: FALL 2013\/Spring 2014<\/p>\n<p>Pictoscope LLC is currently seeking MLS &amp; MLIS students for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 virtual internship opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student interns will work remotely with Pictoscope project coordinators to assist in the initial development of Pictoscope&#8217;s online database research products. The Pictoscope internship presents students with a unique opportunity to help build, test and shape tomorrow&#8217;s information resources today. Work will consist of identifying, organizing and tagging online visual information items, creating high-quality metadata descriptions and project records that will serve to instantly improve user access to a wide variety of online materials in the Humanities, Social Sciences and History of Science subject areas.<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>QUALIFICATIONS:<\/p>\n<p>Education &#8211; Must be an enrolled MLS\/MLIS graduate student with proof of current GPA above 3.0.? Knowledge of a foreign language, especially French, German, Italian, Spanish and Latin is very desirable but not required.<\/p>\n<p>Experience &#8211; Must have experience with Microsoft Office environment. Firm understanding of online database search functionalities is also preferred.?<\/p>\n<p>Goals &#8211; To provide students with an online collection development internship experience that prepares them for work in today&#8217;s complex research environment. Students will educate themselves on existing open access applications, collections and research materials while gaining important skills and a better understanding of metadata standards, relational database functionality and online tools that serve to improve access to students and researchers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Minimum Commitment: 15 hours\/week for approximately 3 months. This may vary for students seeking class credit.<\/p>\n<p>All development internships are unpaid, unless the intern secures their own outside funding. We welcome university students seeking credit.<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO APPLY:<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>Please submit a cover letter, resume, and proof of recent GPA above 3.0 to Pictoscope Development Coordinator, <a href=\"mailto:dana@pictoscope.org\">dana@pictoscope.org<\/a> by <strong>September 1, 2013<\/strong> to be considered for our Fall 2013 Internship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBRARY INFO SCIENCE ONLINE INTERNSHIP: FALL 2013\/Spring 2014 Pictoscope LLC is currently seeking MLS &amp; MLIS students for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 virtual internship opportunities. Graduate student interns will work remotely with Pictoscope project coordinators to assist in the initial development of Pictoscope&#8217;s online database research products. The Pictoscope internship presents students with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/virtual_internship_pictoscope_llc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtual Internship, Pictoscope LLC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocis.simmons.edu\/sites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}