Reference Content Internship, Credo Reference, Boston, MA

Posted April 12, 2016

Summer 2016, May – August

Credo is seeking a part-time Reference Content Intern (15-20 hours/week) to join our team.  Credo has a database of full-text reference content – nearly 5 million entries from 4,000+ reference books and directories, including subject encyclopedias and dictionaries, quotations, biographies, chronologies, statistics and historical documents. 

You will help Credo to make our reference database even better by identifying primary source materials, developing Topic Pages to capture users’ interest, and doing some analytics on our content.  If you’d enjoy working with a small team of librarians and content experts as much as putting your head down and spending hours doing research, we’d like to meet you.   If you’ve ever looked up something in a reference book and then kept reading because the next entry was just as interesting, this internship could be for you. 

A Boston-based student is preferred, but we will consider a student who lives out of the area to work remotely.

About the Internship:

●        Identify and track primary source materials in Credo’s reference database.

●        Create and edit Topic Pages – summaries of topics in many different subject areas.

●        Review course syllabi and find content that could support students taking those courses.

●        Project work pertaining to rights management and metadata.

 

About You:

●        You are a graduate student studying Library Science with a humanities or social sciences background.

●        You are both analytical and curious and can spend hours working on a challenge.

●        You are capable (and enjoy) working with Google Spreadsheets and you are comfortable with many spreadsheet functions.

●        You have a keen eye for detail and an innate knack for catching bad or messy data.

 

Interested students should send resume and cover letter to [email protected].  Please use “Interested in Reference Content internship.”