Libraries all over are excited about summer reading, teen summer reading, adult summer programs, and, well, summer. Here in Jerome, we have five more reasons to be excited this summer… five summer interns!
Steve Poppinoat the College of Southern Idaho helped us arrange for our interns to get college credit for their experience at the library. I don’t know if we’re ambitious or crazy for jumping into doing this for the first time with so many at once. Anyone out there who has experience running a library internship program, please identify yourself! Advice and tips are more than welcome.
Our interns will each be blogging about their experience at least once a week throughout the summer. You can find links to their blogs here. This being the first official week of the summer, only our college intern, Ross, has his blog up yet. Ross, by the way, created the stick guy on the logo. The other four interns will have their blogs linked by the end of the week. I can’t wait to see how their impressions of libraries and our library influence our direction. Since we’re asking them to blog honestly, other libraries who want to do this can learn from our experience and tailor their program for success from the start. I’ll set up a blog and link it to our interns page too. I think I’ll call it “LIP” — library intern project. Update! The LIP blog is up — here.
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that sounds like so much fun! awesome! i can’t wait to keep up on the reality blog!
Five interns! That is great. I’d love to more about what these enthusiastic volunteers do with the programs. (I’d also like to feature this in an upcoming issue of The Scoop.) I think it’s a great idea!!
Weippe Public Library had one summer intern in 2006. His internship here, his follow-up paper and evaluation were his choice of project thesis for Masters in Business or Public Administration. I forget which. He was a treasure and so inciteful. He made many contributions that have remained.
I expect that our interns will make lasting contributions too. They are all so sharp. Ross, our college intern, keeps pointing out my typos and grammar errors. For instance, in this post, the word should be advice, not advise. Duh. Now that I’ve immortalized my mistake, I’m going to change it.