PRACTICUM OPPORTUNITIES
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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.
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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 |
| Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land | Cataloging |
| George Washington University-Gelman Library |
Library instruction development, delivering |
| Heritage Documentation Programs, HABS/HAER/HALS | Working with photographic archives through research, digitization, cataloging and conservation |
| Heritage Documentation Programs, HABS/HAER/HALS | Federal records management, archives, photographic archives |
| 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 management, 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 |
| National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program | Archives, digitization |
| National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress | Research, curatorial projects, exhibits, archives |
| U.S. Holocaust Memorial & Library | Cataloging, reference |
| U.S. Supreme Court Library |
Research, reference |
| Washington Research Library Consortium | Creating metadata for digital collections |
