Catherine is spending her summer at the Killam Library, where she has daily information desk shifts. She is working on a number of ongoing projects this summer, including:
o Working with Open Journal Systems to make available archive volumes of The Dalhousie Review
o Researching information visualization and graphics to feed into a planning document for the library’s instructional program
o Updating LibGuides
o Digitizing the Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science and uploading them into the institutional repository
o Contributing to the development of Dalhousie’s institutional repository, DalSpace, with a focus on creating a faculty research directory
Catherine in the stacks at the Killam.
Catherine will be entering her second year of Dalhousie’s MLIS program in the fall. She has a degree from Carleton University, with a major in political science and a minor in French. Between graduating from Carleton and starting graduate school at Dal, Catherine worked for a year at the Library of Parliament, supporting the research and information needs of parliamentarians and parliamentary committees. Her other library experience includes having worked in technical services at Carleton and in circulation at Dal. She will continue to work at the Killam part-time during the school year.
“Having the opportunity to collaborate with many different library employees and to work on a variety of projects, ranging from the very technical to more research-based, has made the internship a very rewarding experience. The Information Desk has also been a highlight – you learn something new every day with the diversity in information and research requests. I really enjoy working with patrons, whether it’s giving an introduction to the library’s website, helping them gather potential resources for a paper, or teaching them how to locate a book in the stacks,” says Catherine.
She is also a member of the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM) executive. The DJIM is a student-led initiative aimed at publishing Dalhousie graduate student work of the highest quality and significance in all areas of management.