Virtual Digital Content Library Interns, America’s Test Kitchen, Boston, MA
Posted December 18, 2018
Company Summary
America’s Test Kitchen is a real place: a no-nonsense, fully equipped test kitchen located in Boston, Massachusetts, where a team of highly qualified test cooks and editors perform thousands of tests every year. The goal? To develop the best recipes and cooking techniques, recommend the best cookware and equipment, and rate brand-name pantry staples for home cooks, which are published in our magazines, Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country, in our growing line of cookbooks and special interest magazines, and on our websites, as well as featured in our public television series, America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen. We are devoted to a collegial approach to cooking – teams of editors, writers, and cooks engage in side-by-side competitions, blind taste tests, and rigorous equipment tests.
Position Summary
America’s Test Kitchen has recently launched a digital content metadata initiative and is currently seeking three part-time Virtual Digital Content Library Interns to help support it. Under the guidance of the Virtual Digital Content Manager, the interns will apply copy cataloging procedures to enrich digital content metadata as well as to gain an understanding of relevant metadata schemas and content standards used to facilitate the search and retrieval of our digital materials. This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in digital services, special librarianship, and the culinary arts.
Responsibilities
- Assist the digital content team with classification
- Catalog digital content found in the digital asset and content management systems
- Quality-assure record metadata
- Inventory legacy content found on external media
- Identify non-functional requirements for future content management systems development
- Participate in the testing of new versions of our digital content management system software
Minimum Qualifications
- Education/Experience: enrolled in a Master’s degree program with an ALA-accredited institution
- Successfully completed at least one cataloging and/or metadata course
- Detail-oriented and able to work independently
- Comfortable in a 100% virtual work environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the publishing and media sectors
- Working knowledge of collection management and library cataloging standards
These internships will be unpaid. A link to the full job description can be found here.
Please contact Ian Matzen at [email protected] for additional questions.