麻豆视频最新最全 Library Digital Projects
Jo Wilson
Internship: 麻豆视频最新最全 Libraries Digital Projects
鈥淚 want to be a librarian, so the opportunity to work in a library prior to starting my Master鈥檚 in Library and Information Sciences is great.
Emerging Media and Technology senior Jo Wilson, 鈥22, is gaining important experience working in library databases and catalogs at their internship with the 麻豆视频最新最全 Library鈥檚 digital projects during summer 2022.
Wilson has been accepted into the M.L.I.S. program at the 麻豆视频最新最全 School of Information and will begin graduate school in Fall 2022. After that, they hope to work in a library, specifically in making online catalogs more user friendly.
Wilson鈥檚 internship with the 麻豆视频最新最全 Library is specifically related to the collection of COVID-19 research in the Open Access 麻豆视频最新最全 (OAKS) repository. Wilson runs searches to find research related to COVID-19 done by 麻豆视频最新最全 employees, which are then added to the repository. This is important work, as researchers and medical professionals across the world continue to learn more about COVID-19, two years into the pandemic.
鈥淚 find it quite interesting!鈥 Wilson says. 鈥淚 want to be a librarian, so the opportunity to work in a library prior to starting my Master鈥檚 in Library and Information Sciences is great. I'm especially interested in all I'm learning about database searching and how to get the results you want.鈥
They said Emerging Media and Technology classes have been good preparation for this internship and graduate school, especially Interdisciplinary Projects, which taught them about client work, and Computer Applications, which familiarized them with databases and queries.