Ep10. Library School: Internships & Independent Study

<p>After 2 months away from the microphone, The Not So Little Librarian podcast is back with another episode in the Library School series which covers my subjective experience completing both an online internship and an independent study student assistantship while in SJSU iSchool's MLIS program.</p> <p>The remote internship I completed for <a href="https://www.buttonmuseum.org/about" target="_blank">Chicago's Busy Beaver Button Museum</a> took place in Summer 2020 at the height of the pandemic lockdown. To be completely honest, my experience was positively influenced by stay-at-home orders; the internship was the only thing that I had planned for the Summer, so both my husband and I were able to shift our schedules so that I was working on the internship typically between midnight to 5 AM. That being said, I discuss the internship objectively, as well - how the course operated, the types of tasks that I was assigned, and how I went about completing work for the museum's website. As mentioned in the episode, I wrote one blog post for the museum - <a href="https://www.buttonmuseum.org/content/new-york%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cwomen-business%E2%80%9D-week-phyllis-yvonne-reed" target="_blank">"New York's 'Women in Business' Week with Phyllis Yvonne Reed."</a> Additionally, there are a couple buttons that I mentioned throughout that section of the episode, but I'd like to highlight a couple (whether mentioned or not) that I think you may find interesting: <a href="https://www.buttonmuseum.org/buttons/women-racial-and-economic-equality" target="_blank">Women for Racial and Economic Equity</a>, <a href="https://www.buttonmuseum.org/buttons/rutles-drums" target="_blank">Rutles Drums</a>, and <a href="https://www.buttonmuseum.org/buttons/cocoon-movie" target="_blank">Cocoon Movie</a>. Lastly, here is the link to the back-end assignment that I completed for credit through SJSU - <a href="https://youtu.be/kVbvgBoNidQ" target="_blank">Day in the Life | Busy Beaver Button Museum Virtual Internship</a>.</p> <p>The independent study