The Catholic University of America

PRACTICUM OPPORTUNITIES

More Information:

Practicum Overview
Practicum Procedures
Practicum Opportunities
Practicum Comments
 

Practicum Coordinator:

Beverly W. Lammay
lammay@comcast.net
804-741-3710
 

Forms:

Enrollment Request Form(.doc)
Evaluation Form(.doc)

Selected Practicum Opportunities for SLIS Students


The following is a short list of just a few of the exciting practicum opportunities that have been available to students in the Library and Information Science program throughout the last few years.

For a more complete list of organizations who have hosted our students over the years: Download the Adobe pdf version of the list.

For questions about any of these opportunities, please contact Beverly Lammay, the practicum coordinator.

Organization

Activities
CNN DC Bureau Library

News and Broadcast library reference, collection maintenance, web page development
Carnegie Institution Cataloging
Defense Intelligence Agency

Information management, storage, & retrieval
Fairfax Hospital-Jacob D. Zylman Health Sciences

Develop pathfinders, web page, library brochure
George Washington University-Gelman Library

Library instruction development, delivering
Library of Congress

Archives, cataloging, research, records management
National Agricultural Library

Organize, inventory, create databases and archival finding guides for special collections of photographs, catalogs, papers and memorabilia; web site page creation and content building; bibliometric analysis of e-journals; and more.
National Baseball Hall of Fame

Cataloging, acquisitions, serials managmt., reference
National Geographic Society

Archives, cataloging, research, records management
National Museum of Women in the Arts Reference, cataloging, exhibits
National Public Radio (NPR)

News and Broadcast library reference, collection maintenance, web page development
U.S. Holocaust Memorial & Library Cataloging, reference
U.S. Supreme Court Library

Research, reference
Washington Research Library Consortium Creating metadata for digital collections