DULISSA

Summer Metadata Assistants / InternsJoin a team of metadata specialists and assistants (including other
library school students) to help launch an internal document management
system within a successful, rapidly growing software company. You’ll get
first-hand experience with emerging portal and Internet technologies as
you help transition documents from various internal resources to
structured and managed intranet information systems.

You will spend two thirds of your time on metadata for airline industry
and computer science documents. You will choose what projects you work
on for one third of your time. These projects can include: search engine
maintenance, user instruction, internal marketing, collection
development, original cataloging, or copy cataloging. For the
technologically savvy applicant, there are opportunities to customize or
enhance our tools, including an open source ILS and document management
system.

Responsibilities:

- Apply metadata standards consistently to schema and past usage
- Review documents for addition into the system and create appropriate
metadata
- Review and edit existing metadata
- Perform other duties as assigned

Special Knowledge/Skills Required:

- Excellent customer service skills
- Attention to detail
- Enthusiasm for new technologies and subject areas

Qualifications:

- Experience and comfort using Windows XP, the Internet, word
processing, spreadsheets and email
- One or more semesters of graduate study in library science
- Completion of a cataloging class preferable
- Available 40 hours a week for a minimum of 12 weeks
- This position is on site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, minutes from
MIT, Harvard, and downtown Boston

Benefits include transit pass or parking in Cambridge and holiday pay.
Company caters two dinners and one lunch every week. Compensation is $15
an hour.

Please direct questions and resumes to Julka Grodel:
jgrodel@itasoftware.com