2025 Data Internship for Library and Information Science, National Center for Data Services, (Remote)

Posted April 8, 2025

Description:

The ability to provide data services is now a part of many job openings and new opportunities in health sciences and academic libraries. In turn, the goal of the NCDS Internship Program is to provide practical experiences to interns that include the soft and hard skills needed to enter data librarian positions, including working on a team, understanding the data lifecycle, and working with data. The National Center for Data Services (NCDS) of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) provides internships in an effort to increase the pool of potential data librarians by introducing students to data librarianship in a health sciences context. These paid internships offer opportunities to gain practical experience while working with a mentor in a guided environment on structured, data-related projects.

There are multiple projects available from our site partners. These projects involve structured activities including data cleaning, structuring, analysis, or visualization, or a guided in-depth project in data curation. Each intern will be provided with training and mentoring throughout. The practical experiences developed during the internship will provide participants with skills needed to be competitive for data librarian positions. Upon completion, interns are also funded to travel to and present at a conference about their summer project.

Qualifications:

Must be a US citizen or permanent resident.
Must be currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of an accredited LIS graduate program.
Must complete all application materials.

Hours and Compensation:

The 10-week internship runs from June-August each year.
The expectations for the internship are to work 10 hours per week for the 10-week program. Interns will be compensated $20 per hour.

How to Apply

Visit https://www.nnlm.gov/about/centers/ncds/internship to see the full listing and apply. Applications will be open from April 7-April 21.

An information session will be held on Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 2PM eastern. Registration Link: https://www.nnlm.gov/training/class/ncds-2025-internship-information-session-0

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.