Site Name | Location | Contact Person | Student Contact (Previous Intern) | Experience |
Amgen Libraries | Newbury Park, CA (Thousand Oaks) | Richard Hulser rhulser@amgen.com | Jill Detrick jdetrick@ucla.edu | Provides an information professional level introduction to operations of a technical corporate library and information service, along with hands-on experience with appropriate projects. Some of these projects may include, but are not limited to: update self-guided training programs and related training elements; work in an individual and team approach to build taxonomies; participate in development of procedures for archiving and digitizing corporate content; and other projects as assigned. |
Symantec, Inc. | Santa Monica, CA | TBD | Monique Escamilla moniquecooks@gmail.com | Information Architecture: This internship offers the opportunity to become exposed to various aspects of Information Architecture including the creation of wireframes for different segments of a large consumer web site, metadata and search analysis, usability studies, website navigation design and analysis and competitive site analysis. |
Disney Parks and Resorts Online | North Hollywood, CA | Chris Chandler chris.chandler@disney.com | | Information Architecture: This opportunity is to work as part of a multidisciplinary creative team that delivers high quality online experiences. As part of the Information Architecture group you will help design information spaces to facilitate task completion and provide intuitive access tocontent. Learn how to balance content, business goals, and guest goals.Work with us as we understand guest information needs and their information-seeking styles by practicing user-centered designtechniques. Learn to practice information and interaction design from the special perspective of a company dedicated to delivering magical experiences in all media. |
UCLA InfoShare | Los Angeles, CA | Natalie Kamper kamper@med-net.ucla.edu | | Health Information technology consulting |
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center | Long Beach, CA | Judy Kraemer jkraemer@memorialcare.org | | Information Architecture: Library Intranet Design and Development. Evaluation of library intranet site needs. Website design. |
Clear Channel Outdoor | Torrance, CA | sibylroud@clearchannel.com | | Clear Channel Outdoor's Image Library contains photographs, slides, and other photographic material dating back to the early 1900's. Our online Digital Image Library has over one million assets. There are many different areas in which a student can shape their internship. The intern may choose to work with the Digital Image Library, cataloging assets, developing the CCO thesaurus, and leaning about digital asset management systems. We also have several thousand photographic items that need to be scanned, cataloged, and entered into the Digital Image Library. Students interested in archives may opt to arrange and describe our archival collections. |
Komex | Huntington Beach, CA | Andy Gray agray@komexh2o.com | | Engineering/environmental consulting company seeks and intern to improve, manage, and maintain its corporate technical library.QUALIFICATIONS: Computer skills (Microsoft Excel & Access). |
Pentagon Library (The Department of the US Army) | Washington, DC area | Allen Kessler (703)614-0119 | | Provide reference / research service with emphasis on state-of-the-art information delivery, online governmental and commercial information retrieval system; cataloging actual collections of military information available in various formats |
Qualcomm Incorporated | San Diego, CA | Chris Chatfield cchatfie@qualcomm.com | | Working with library management and support staff, employ cataloging theory and expertise to help establish cataloging policies and normalize online catalog of approximately 10,000 hardcopy and 4,000 digital files and electronic journals. |
The Metadata Company | | Stephen Peacock speacock@metadata.com | | This is not a typical library oriented position. Metadata is developing an ontology 'mediator' or integration capability. We need a data/knowledge oriented person to develop or use contentexperts to locate and define sources of data. It is more library orinformation knowledge application rather than libraryadministration or maintenance. Knowledge of ontologydevelopment, taxonomy and content representation is important.Data source reference, description and development will be the main effort as well as interface with W3C semantic web standards. This is not an IT DBA (database administration) opportunity. It is associated with a new kind of information modeling technique |
The Capital Group Companies | | Stephanie Weck Stephanie_Weck@capgroup.com | | Manager of Business Research ServicesThis associate will lead the Library's team of 10 U.S. based Business Research Specialists in the provision of top qualityresearch and information services to Capital Group associates.The position involves managing the effectiveness of the BusinessResearch Services unit; developing and communicatingstandards for service levels and research products delivered bythe group; coordinating communications, resources, training andsupport within the unit to ensure consistency and quality in the service and research delivered, collaborating with other LibraryManagers and Team Managers on Library-wide goals and initiatives. This opportunity is located in our Downtown Los Angeles office. |
Comments (2)
Anonymous said
at 12:10 pm on Jul 14, 2006
Do we also want to put contacts of students who have held these internships? Also, we should add Disney Imagineer internship (IA)--Han is currently doing this internship
--Monique
jdetrick@... said
at 4:40 pm on Jul 14, 2006
Yes, I think this would be great...Some may not have student contacts, but I think thats ok...
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