 Well, welcome to this evening's second panel, site supervisor panel presentation, actually, where our students will learn about many of the opportunities that are available to them for the spring semester. During this section, we have five different opportunities represented. I'm afraid our first presenter from Pasadena Public Library was not able to attend, but we will quickly move through those slides and then we will begin the presentation with Richard from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. We'll hear from Stephen Parr at Oddball Film and Video. He's an old hand at this. And then Jane from Fullerton College Library and Chris from Monterey County Free Library. So we should have a very interesting evening. You see my picture down below, Dr. Pat Franks. Just call me Pat, and Melissa LaFranchise, the student assistant who gets all of the credit for putting this panel presentation together this evening. Right now, I'll just mention that Dan and Martha put together some slides for Pasadena Public Library where they talk about the public library in a community that treasures both its library and its history. There is some internship information that would be available to our database. So be sure to look for the scanning project director, job title. They are looking for students that I'm sure we're all looking for that love to work independently, apply roles and guidelines, work in iterative training sessions and situations, and have an interest in history and historical research. And there is contact information. If any of you would like to learn more about it, you can use the email there to find out more. I'm sorry they could not be with us. But right now, we'll move on to Richard Hussler from National Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County, and I'm going to turn the mic right over to Richard. You have the arrow keys that you can push to move your slides. And if you have a problem, let us know, and we'll move them for you. Richard? Okay, thanks, Pat. And as Pat said, I'm Richard Hussler. I'm the Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Chief Librarian, and we'll get right into this. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is actually a family of museums. It is the Exposition Park campus. It is the La Brea Tarpiz page museum. And it's the Hart Museum up in the northern part of Los Angeles County. And the research library is considered a specialized cultural institution library. The large library is located at the Exposition Park location. We also do have a library at the Page Museum, which I was at this afternoon, as well as a small collection over at the Hart. So the pictures you see before you on the right-hand side are pictures of the library as it is now, and although it's changing daily, without all my wonderful volunteers, which I'll get to in a second. And we have subject collections that are in selected areas of natural history, ranging from vertebral paleontology, including dinosaurs, one of our new dinosaur exhibits in the lower left, as well as to the other end of the spectrum, history and archaeology and anthropology, represented by our new Becoming Los Angeles Hall with the Charlie Chaplin costume, among other many other artifacts on display at the Natural History Museum in the lower middle part of the picture. The internship information, there's lots of different projects. If you take cataloging and are interested in cataloging or metadata or any information organization or anything of those and anything like those, there's plenty to do at my place. I have several interns from different institutions, including San Jose State's program, doing copy cataloging, as well as teaching them how to do some original cataloging with unusual artifacts. We also have a retrospective catalog conversion project with Dewey 2LC that is a multi-year ongoing thing that we do when we can. We also have, in the realm of digital libraries and websites, we, the museum does publish its own peer-reviewed journal and we scan that and we're scanning other publications of the museum and making them full text, keyword searchable and the intern could be involved with that. We are also developing a number of digital libraries using OCLC Content DM, as well as our library system EOS in this case based out of Carlsbad, which they're with their knowledge builder tool, as well as typical mark records from OCLC. We also have an external presence on the museum's website that is constantly having updates and I recently did a major website redesign that is available for experience. For those of you interested in research and proposal writing for funding support, that would be great. In fact, what most people don't realize is you can write a grant and get yourself funded to be paid by whatever funding agency or entity and come work for me. That would be wonderful. I'd love it. You'd love it. It'd be great. Global Research Publications Exchange Program. We have almost 600 different institutions globally. Every language, every alphabet is represented from the Middle East to the Far East to the South, everywhere to the North. So that's always a lot of interesting fun. We have special collections including maps, main maps and art in our collections that we are creating digital libraries for as well as there are conservation issues and management issues that you would get exposed to. And we do, with our special collections, we are doing another more granular inventory creation of finding aids for those interested in archiving kinds of projects. That would be good as well as potential digitization. We're getting a new copy stand and then you're, or a copy stand is not brand new, it's old, but into the library really soon to digitize some amazing 18th, 19th century large polios. We created the internship, or I created the internship as a shared experience for student and museum to learn and help each other as it says there. The museum is a research and education focused institution and internships provide a vehicle for information and skills transfer both ways. I learn a lot, you learn a lot, it's always interesting, it's always dynamic. The internship qualifications are following, it's no pay unfortunately, unless you write a grant and you get paid that way, that would be great. It's through the volunteer program at the museum and I supervise, I have an MLS as well as an MED, so I supervise all interns, whether I lend them out to other departments or stay in the library. The skills I'm looking for are an ability to apply your education, both current LIS education as well as any task experience in whatever topics you might have studied, whether it's social sciences, art, dance, theater, science, science would be great, history would be great, anthropology would be great in particular, and apply them to practical tasks. I do look for people who can work independently, but also as a team player on small projects because I do have folks work with other folks who are either volunteering or interning, as well as work on their own specific projects. The library experience is helpful, some of you probably have worked in libraries, others never touched foot in the library other than to use it as far as no work experience anyway, and that's not required, but it's helpful, and as I said, science, history, or anthropology background helpful, again not required. And successful interns combine the needs of their classes and their career aspirations into projects and I work very hard to make sure that we work with your goals and learning objectives to make sure that everybody wins. And my contact information is on the screen there. You can either call me or even fax me if you want, email me with any questions you might have. One of the, some of the key points is it is an onsite internship that, and I do that because a lot of what we have really requires you to understand and work with the physical collection, although part of your internship could be done remotely in a virtual instance, so that's possible. If you have a project for a class you want to do that's virtual, we can talk about that as well. You can do it for credit or not for credit, that's up to you, I'm okay the way and we can talk about that as well. You must be within a reasonable commute distance of the museum, which is based in Exposition Park just south of the USC campus near the Olympic Stadium. And if you, I've had people from as close as a few blocks away to as far as Santa Clarita or as south as far as Long Beach, so anything that you can tolerate is good for me. Contact me to set up an onsite visit appointment to review your options and actually understand what the library, the museum and the library is all about and get the museum volunteer application paperwork so that you can fill that out. And as I said internships can be for academic credit or not credit, it depends on what your needs are. And that's it. Well, thank you very much Richard. I especially was grateful that you mentioned the fact that students can write research grants in some instances in order to fund their own position at least on a temporary basis with your organization, with a natural history museum. So it's really quite exciting. And what we're going to do now is hold our questions and move on to the next presenter. I see his picture right on the screen here, Steven Parr from Oddball Film and Video. And Steven's going to talk about a different type of internship, virtual, although he may also have some onsite opportunities. So right now let me turn the mic over to Steven. Hi everybody. Here's a picture of myself in a very small part of our 50,000 print archive. And here's much more as well. Our company essentially provides stock footage for producers who make feature films, documentaries, music videos, projects like The Moving Milk by Gus Van Zandt that use a lot of archival footage. Programs like Knift Busters that explore the cutting edge of all the new science. Programs like the American Experience, things like that. Essentially we've provided footage for many of the major documentaries that you see out there. Our internships involve cataloging films in the Oddball database using Worldcat, the catalog of films, the World Catalog of Films, the Internet Archive and other online resources. Logging Quick Times, which are essentially a preview clips that we keep in our database to send to clients and other producers interested in viewing our materials. We also have other projects involving research, researching footage requests using publicly available resources. The Library of Congress, the National Archives, places like that. In terms of the virtual internships, we've been doing this for a number of years and we've been quite successful at doing so. Many of our interns move on to other positions here in schools like the Selznick School of Film Preservation, New York University School of Moving Image Preservation and the UCLA Moving Image Archiving Program. Some of our other interns are now working at the Library of Congress, the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles and previously at Lucas Films. What you're looking at is a Quick Time Database. What you can see is probably a silhouette of some go-go dancers from the 1960s selling Spark Cards. It's a really kind of a campy pop type commercial. A lot of times people use things like that when they're making music videos or documentaries about the 60s. So essentially what people do is we send them clips and they basically incorporate the metadata under the subject category, the seropsis, the content, the keywords and other parameters. It's fairly simple, it's fairly straightforward. Now if someone was interested in a real-time in-site internship, those are a bit more rigorous. You get a lot of hands-on experience with film itself, transferring film, digitizing film, incorporating the metadata into the database. It's really, in my mind, one of the best ways to get this kind of experience. My experience has taught me that very few archives like ours are willing to have on-site internships simply because the film prints and the media is too valuable and verified to be used by newcomers. We don't believe that that's true and we've proven it by allowing interns into the archives. Our last two on-site interns, well, these, they were actually our last two, but about a year and a half ago, both were accepted into the Selznitz School of Film Preservation. They only accept 12 students a year, they get 200 applications. One of them received the Selny Pictures Scholarship Award, the Association of Moving Image Archives, this year. And so it's a really great way to learn how to work with film, how to work with videotape, and how to work with digital media. This is an example of our database. It incorporates a lot more parameters than the quick-time database does. We're in the process of revamping all our databases. We have about 12 databases. We're going to be revamping them into a very smooth architecture so that when someone is entering this information in-house here, it will go right up to our website. The qualifications we're looking for really are someone is self-directed with the ability to work independently. And that is someone that takes the initiative. If they're interested in this program, they'll call, they'll email, they'll follow through in every aspect of the process so that in addition they should be well-organized and detail-oriented, it goes without saying that anytime anyone's entering information in a database, that that's critical. You just call a word wrong, you file a film in the wrong place, you never find it again. So you'll need some excellent written communication skills. You need to be reliable and dependable. And you need to really be interested in doing this. It shouldn't be something that you just want to try out. It's something that you should be, have read enough about and have learned enough about in terms of what's out there, what you want to do to move forward. So that's really where I mean by goal-oriented. If you're interested at all, if you have any questions, I'm always happy to answer them. If you live in the area and you still want to do a virtual internship and that's happened before because many of us have to work during the day and they do the internship in the evening, I'll be happy to give you a tour of the archive at a time agreeable to both of us. So again, if you're interested, please feel free to email me at info.oddballfilm.com. Thanks very much for your time. Thank you, Stephen. As usual, I enjoyed your presentation and as Stephen mentioned, in the past we have had a virtual intern or two plan their break over the winter here now to stop by and visit Stephen and see where he's doing his work while they do their work in the spring from home. So thank you for your presentation and we'll move right on now to Jane Shibashi from Fullerton College Library and she'll talk about the internship position that they have available there on site. Jane? Thank you, Pat. My name is Jane Shibashi and I'm the circulation archives librarian at the community college and I'll be supervising the intern. My background is that I got my bachelor's at UCLA and when UC Berkeley had the master's in library and information science, I got my master's there. I also completed the Society of California Archives, Western Archives Institute. The internship at Fullerton College, which is located in Fullerton and Orange County, not to be confused with Cal State University Fullerton, will be primarily in the archives. It's a small collection that documents the history of the community college. This year is actually a good year to be doing an internship because it's our centennial year and the intern will be helping to document the history of this important year's events as well as to assist with processing materials from previous years. We have ephemera that needs to be sorted, organized, labeled, and rehoused and the ephemera can include promotional flyers, announcements for workshops, building inaugurations, theater posters, and blueprints and the top photo shows the library as it is now and the photo below is a photo of the library from our archives. So some of the things that are possible is that since 2009, an adjunct librarian and I have been working on an online pictorial history of the college and I've put the URL on the screen. You'll see it at libraryfphistory.fullcalls.edu and the internship projects may include photographing the activities on campus that are being held for the centennial, selecting photos, adding captions, and uploading the files to slideshow pro, which is the platform we're using for the online history. Since we're in our centennial the year, we would also like the intern to work on some outreach activities and this would be a discussion with the intern but some of the possibilities would be creating a display around the centennial theme using materials from the archives. We've also purchased licensing for Animoto Pro and Common Craft and we're purchasing some other equipment to make some information literacy online videos for distance ed students but I'd like to have somebody creative to create some online videos so that we could promote the online history and the archives. So that would be another possible project. And then in recognition that like me, it's not unusual for a librarian to work double duties at a librarian and an archivist, I went to an actual managing intern's workshop in UC Riverside and I got some ideas about how to handle the interns and I'd like to incorporate some other activities for the intern. So the intern will also get an opportunity to observe reference interviews and receive tips at the reference desk from the librarians working there, interviewing the librarians on staff to learn about the different positions in Fortin College Library and also observing information literacy classes, writing a brief evaluation of the instructional methods of the different librarians because we all have our different styles and sometimes there's on hand work during the information literacy classes, so the interns will help answer individual questions that the students have while they're doing their research on certain projects. What we're looking for, of course, everybody's looking for self-motivated workers able to work independently. I would, you know, preferably have some kind of archival course worker even experience but experience isn't necessary and successful interns have been detail oriented self-starters who enjoy local history, honesty, integrity and familiarity with social media would be good and then if you know, if you're creative, of course, we've got the outreach activities that would be good. Our fall semester is going to end on December 13th, so if you could possibly contact me about your interest in the spring semester internship, it would be preferably before December 13th. I'm off until the week before we start but I will be checking my emails to see if anybody's trying to set up an appointment for an interview but the sooner you get it in the better. I'll be setting up informal interviews in January during our break. I'll be coming in, I'm not actually working until we start our spring semester but you can send me a letter of interest, unofficial transcripts and a resume with some references and there's my contact information at the top. And I hope that some of you will be interested and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks. Thank you very much, Jane. This is the perfect time to work in your archives at the library with the Centennial. It should be exciting and not only having a chance to digitize or post photos but also to actually take them should be a lot of fun for a creative intern. So I do hope that some of our students express an interest in this opportunity. Next we're going to go to our last presenter of this evening, Chris Ricker who's going to speak about the opportunities at Monterey County Free Libraries. So Chris, you're welcome to take the mic. Okay. Thank you very much. I'm pleased to say that I'm a graduate from San Jose State University's Library School back in 1994. And I do work now for Monterey County Free Libraries and we're a really kind of I think amazing library system with 17 branches and three bookmobiles. And we just celebrated our 100th anniversary in just a year ago. And we're a very diverse service area. We have branches in Big Sur, South part of Monterey County which includes a lot of farm labor communities. We have a branch in Soledad which has one of the California missions located there. So it's about 3,000 square feet in overall service space. So we do a lot with a pretty lean staff but everybody is very, very passionate. So, I'm sorry, this is my first slide. But you can see here in this historical photograph are First County Librarian Ann Haddon. And she established Monterey County Free Libraries about 101 years ago. And this is a picture of her delivering books to Big Sur. So she would pack up her borough and head out into the hills for, you know, really days at a time and deliver books to individual houses or, you know, if there was a school or a post office and she would set up these small little outposts. So that's kind of the beginning of our library system. And in some ways it, you know, feels, we still feel connected to her. Some of our libraries are really tiny and, you know, there's rumors that some were established in chicken coops, probably some of our staff still feel like they work in a chicken coop. But anyway, it's kind of a fun library system to work with. We, thankfully through Ann Haddon, have quite a collection of historical photographs. We have about 1,200 photographs that came from kind of her time. Most of them are, you know, pre-1940s. So we have them digitized but in a format that's, it's their JPEGs. And we really need to have better source images and they also need to be, you know, formally cataloged and we have purchased a content management system, which is OCLC's content DM. And we'd like to get that collection up online. So this, what we're looking for is someone to help us kind of get these images up and online and available to the public. And I think they will just be greatly received by the public. So there will be a lot of, I think, rewards in terms of service by working with us on this project. We do have just a rough policy and procedure for our photo archive collection in terms of, you know, getting a person's signature on how they're going to use the items. There's a form and we do even have a small fee for usage. But those are things we're looking at, again, as we put this collection online. So I think for an intern, it's really a wonderful opportunity to really collaborate with management directly on a real world policy for making these images available to the public. So that's really rewarding because it is a policy that will, you know, be around for a year or two and really help guide us. So I think that's a really good experience for an intern to have. And we would certainly benefit by your help. So we are really also looking for someone who's interested in digital archives, someone that has some familiarity with current standards. We do have fairly good knowledge of it ourselves, but we just really need someone to work with us to formalize those. So I really would encourage anyone who is interested to please, you know, send me an email about your interest. We could accommodate an off-site internship or on-site. It would probably be great if we could have you here and have you see these wonderful resources that we have. So I thank you so much for your time, and I hope to hear from some of you soon. Thank you. Thank you very much, Chris. I love that picture. It just sounds like another exciting time to be involved with the Centennial recently. The digitization projects, the use of Content DM, as I said before, are skills that are looked for in job openings, job listings now. And not to forget, though, that the policy development and the use of standards form the basis for those types of projects. And so I'm so glad that you're also emphasizing that type of work. I'm going to turn this over now to our final slide, which is for questions. And it doesn't just have to be student questions, but anybody at all wanting to know about any of the topics that were touched on today. You see the slide on your screen with our presenters. The first is not here, but the second through fourths are, or fifths are. So if anybody has a question, please raise your hand by clicking on the hand icon right underneath your name. It's the third ambient, third icon in. You could put your question in the chat area. We could read it off for you. Or if you have a mic, you can raise your hand and we'll give you the mic. And I hear somebody right there, so I'm going to look and see. Stephen, go ahead. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Okay. Hi. This is a question for Richard. I'm curious, because many interns are really in the need of funds. And I think the idea of having someone learn to write grants is a really good skill set to have. We've written another number of grants for my nonprofit, the San Francisco Media Archive. And I'm curious if there are any resources that you might have, any grants that might be available that students could write for some self-funding. Thanks, Stephen. There are several of the IMLS, the Institute for Museum and Library Services out of the federal government does have grants available for individuals in addition to institutions. There are also, we subscribe to the foundation directory, which I would have our interns take a look at because it lists a lot of private foundations as well as governmental type that are available. And what most students don't understand, and I didn't when I was a student either, so it's not something that, you know, to worry about. Is that there's so much money out there, and there's money for people who are in a master's program. And you just got to find it. That's the difficulties. And sometimes there's ethnicity requirements. Sometimes there's just subject error requirements. And I did have a student last year who was in a grant writing class. And so she wrote an initial outline of a grant related to something that we needed at our museum. It wasn't to do with funding a staff person. But the Getty is a place that once a year offers several grants that I would suggest folks look at. And I did have an intern of mine who happened to be from another school program, UCLA. Who did get funded. And she was funded and paid for eight months full-time work. So, you know, after she worked with me. So, you know, there you go. There are a couple of different options there. Thanks a lot, Richard. I really appreciate it. I do know about the Foundation Center. And it's a really great resource for any other potential people who are looking for interns to perhaps line up some funds as well. And make the position even more appealing. Well, thank you to both of you for talking about that topic. Perhaps that's something that Melissa made her note to remind me. That we should actually look at to see if we could provide more resources for our students to be able to look into those opportunities, too. I appreciate that. And I see Amy is closing her browser because she's on the East Coast, FMI. It's about five minutes to 11 years for us. So, it's a little late in the evening. If there was one other thing I think that was mentioned, maybe, Chris, it was you, that you had attended a workshop for intern site supervisors. And was it you or was it Jane? I think that was Jane. What was the question? Jane, did you mention that you had attended a workshop for internship site supervisors? All right. At UC Riverside just a couple weeks ago, they had an internship about managing interns. So, I'm probably going to do things a little bit differently than I've been done in the past doing a little bit more monitoring and trying to spend more time with the interns than I have in the past. That sounds like something I should look into as well just to see if there's something that we could do to help our interns a little more, our internship site supervisors. Do we have any other questions for our presenters? I realize it's late in the day for most of us. Okay. If not, I want to thank the site supervisors and everyone who attended and participated this evening. And we will be posting the recording link as well as the webcast of the recording within a day or so. And I hope that you'll consider applying for one of these internships. Thank you very much. Good night.