Home-Grown Help: Digital Library Education for Staff
1. In-House Training for Digital Projects Abby Clobridge Bucknell University 2006 ASIS&T DL – ED Panel: Education for Digital Librarianship – Employers’ Needs
18. Job Posting: Digital Libraries Internship Bucknell University’s Information Services & Resources, a merged library and IT organization, is offering a paid summer internship for a library/information science student interested in learning more about digital libraries. This position is designed to provide experience in all aspects of an academic digital library/technology environment. Responsibilities will include (but not be limited to) assisting with digital image processing, metadata work, and other tasks associated with building a digital collection. During the summer of 2005, ISR will be building a large digital image collection to be used for teaching art history and related courses during the fall semester, so there will be opportunities for hands-on experience in a wide variety of areas.
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Notas do Editor
Background – why/how this started -- Not professionally-trained librarians no expectations to keep up with changes in cataloging
Background – why/how this started -- Not professionally-trained librarians no expectations to keep up with changes in cataloging
Just because information exists about an object, we are not obligated to capture that information.
Heavier reliance on judgment when cataloging digital objects because of lack of definitive information, authority files, etc. Progress over perfection – easy to make changes later doesn’t have to be perfect the first time around. Don’t expect things to be perfect.
While our two interns have been vastly different in terms of experience, both were considered to be extremely successful experiences – for us and for the interns.