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[Emily Stambaugh <stambae AT wfu.edu>]

Hi Paul, 

So glad you posted this. You need a librarian - master of content
management, including e-content management!

There are two large schools of Information and Library Science in your
area, one at UNC Chapel Hill (http://www.ils.unc.edu)
and one at North Carolina Central University
(http://www.nccu.edu/index1.shtml). Both are potential departments that
you should post your job/internship position to. Students in these
programs not only develop the skills to manage content in all of its
forms (print, electronic, etc.) but the technical skills to organize and
access it (indexing, abstracting, subject analysis, electronic access
via website design,  database development, programming in many
languages, etc.)

At SILS UNC contact Marcia Tauber and check out the site:
http://www.ils.unc.edu/html/4_employ_resources.shtml link to Employer
Information.

At SILS NCCU, I'm not sure who you contact, but if you call the
departmental office, they can guide you in the right direction:
http://www.nccuslis.org/

There are many ways of setting up an internship. The ones I typically
saw posted to the job-list at UNC-CH when I was a student there were for
10-15 hours per week, Sept-Dec. or Jan-May, the skills you're looking
for pay $10-13 per hour, some with benes (healthcare and payroll can be
arranged through the department, talk with the department administrator
who works as a liaison to employers about that). 

Some students can take a few credits as Independent Study projects
("practicums") and may work for pay or not, depending upon how you
announce it. But, again, for the skills you're looking for, you'll
probably need to pay some type of wage.


-- 

Emily Stambaugh
Collection Development Librarian
stambae AT wfu.edu




Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:06:43 -0400
From: Paul Cory <pwcory AT mindspring.com>
To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [internetworkers] Internship from Scratch
Reply-To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

I am exploring what it would take to set up a small internship program 
at my workplace (Wake County Public School System Communications 
Department, Website division). The hypothetical intern would help with 
Website programming, content conversion and Web server administration.

I am basically starting from zero here. So I have a bunch of questions:

1) Do local universities and community colleges offer any assistance in 
setting up/recruiting for internship programs? If so, who would I 
contact?

2) When I was in school, in the UNC Journalism program, you could do a 
"practicum" for credit. If that is still an option, what would be the 
general outlines of what would be expected out of me as the Intern's 
manager? Who could I contact for more information?

3) Pay - what's the going rate for interns in this area and for the 
work mentioned? Is there such a thing anymore as the unpaid intern? I 
am pushing the idea of a paid intern, but with the budget as tight as 
it is, pay, or adequate pay, may not be an option.

4) What are the accepted time frames for internships? 3 months? 6 
months? Semester? Year? Season (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring)?

Thanks in advance for the help. The more information I get, the better 
case I will be able to make for starting an internship program.

Paul