Library Intern/Children's Services: Auburn Public Library

We are seeking an intern to offer assistance in a variety of tasks in the children's department. Hours can be flexible but we need reliability and commitment to the position.

Duties: The children's intern will be responsible for patron assistance, clerical work, circulation duties, book processing, program assistance, data entry, shelving/shelf reading, bulletin board prep and other projects as needed.

Benefits: This is good opportunity to gain valuable library experience in many areas of library services to children.

Qualifications: Information & Library Science majors are encouraged to apply,
Demonstrated interest in libraries and literacy, Strong attention to detail, Ability to learn quickly, multi-task, Computer knowledge helpful, Responsible and committed person, Cheerful and friendly manner is important and previous customer service experience helpful.

Contact: Debora Cleveland, Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring Street, Auburn, Maine 04210, (207)333-6640, e-mail: dcleveland@auburnpubliclibrary.org

Interested students should also contact Jodi (1-800-850-5379) or send an email jodi.williams@maine.edu

Maine Media Workshops & College Opportunity*
(*Possibilities for Summer 2012)

Rockport Village! Maine Media Workshops and College is a 38 year old institution which has been a nonprofit school for the past four years. As one of 36 colleges in the state, we are small in size and big in focus and diversity, with over 2,000 students coming here from 48 states and 43 countries last year alone. We have the industry's cutting-edge equipment and technology; and, throughout the year, enjoy over 200 expert photographers, multimedia artists, and filmmakers as faculty.

Currently, we have a great need for a knowledgeable person to help us organize our library. While we cannot pay someone a salary, we can provide experience, support, room, and board. If you know of a student who is available, even part-time or during the summer, who can help, I am very interested in talking with this person.

Interested students should contact Jodi (1-800-850-5379) or send an email jodi.williams@maine.edu

South Thomaston Public Library

The South Thomaston Public Library is an all-volunteer effort open to the public 15 hours/week. We offer just about every service a large public library does, but on a much smaller scale.

We are interested in working with UMA to offer an internship to a local ILS student to enable the student to learn the ropes of working in a small rural library. We do have an MLS librarian with many years of volunteer supervisory experience. We would love to share our passion for good library service with the up and coming generation. We are open to new ideas and this would be an ideal sharing atmosphere for an ILS student and aspiring librarian.

We are totally automated (using LibraryWorld for our irculation/cataloging/OPAC), have a dedicated webpage, soon to have a Facebook page. We have two pre-school story hours per week with a monthly attendance of over 100! We also have an adult book discussion group that meets monthly, public access computers, and provide ILL to our patrons. Our collection is small (about 6000 books and videos) but meets the needs of our patrons. We also participate in the Maine Downloadable Overdrive consortium.iInterested students should contact Jodi (1-800-850-5379) or send an email jodi.williams@maine.edu

Waterboro School Media Center

We have opportunities for field study or internship opportunities to students in an exciting high school media center.  We are transforming our outdated and traditional school library into a vibrant, information-packed media
center. We would love the opportunity to work with an ILS student. Great flexible opportunity for a student who is interested in learning more about school media centers in a changing environment.

Interested students should contact Jodi (1-800-850-5379) or send an email jodi.williams@maine.edu

Kennebec Historical Society

At the Kennebec Historical Society we have a collection of books, manuscripts, images and ephemera that currently exceeds 50,000 items, less than half of which has been appropriately inventoried and cataloged. The items cover 18th century to present Augusta and surrounding communities in Kennebec County.

We would welcome students and other interested people who would learn from and enjoy an opportunity to participate in what is now an ongoing process of getting all of these items into a computer database. We can provide volunteers training and supervision in the details of our catalog and database. We can provide computer skills guidance but would need interested parties to have good essential computer skills. The Society is generally open from 10:00 to 2:00 on Wednesday to Friday, but work hours can be arranged most days of the week.

For more information about the Kennebec Historical Society, please see our website. Interested students should contact Jodi (1-800-850-5379) or send an email jodi.williams@maine.edu

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