Internship at Centre for Environment Education – Pune

CEE – Information Service Centre (CEE – ISC) invites applications for Internship in Information Services from Library and Information Science graduates for their Pune Office. The Pune office library is a small library with a collection of around 5000 library materials (Books, AV materials, periodicals etc). Applications containing name, age, educational qualifications, work experience if any, computer skills, languages proficient in and expected date of graduation may be mailed to library@ceeindia.org on or before 26^th December 2012.

Location: Centre for Environment Education – Pune
Renumeration: Rs.8000/- pm
Description:

The duration of this internship will be of three months. This internship includes orientation and practical training to innovative methods and techniques to this field through hands-on experience. This internship will provide an exposure to the selected candidate on the setting up of a Specialized Library in the field of Environment, Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development.

Purpose:

The internship will develop:

• skills in the application of theory to practical work situations
• hands on experience in day to day running of the facility
• in-depth knowledge of the formal functional activities of a library
• knowledge of providing information services to the staff on a variety of ongoing projects
• knowledge of providing information services as an ENVIS centre on Environmental Science
• abilities to understand the importance of systems and standard procedures to manage libraries
• understanding of the area of and trends in Environment Education and Education for Sustainable development and how such subject-specialist library collections are built.

Internship Conditions:

The selected intern will be based in Pune. The intern will have to travel to Ahmedabad for a period of two weeks for on the job training. Once the training period is over, the intern will be placed at the Pune office where the intern will need to develop the library and setup the systems for the smooth and efficient running of the library. Interns will have the unique opportunity to learn about, and provide assistance to a variety of on-going projects of the Centre at their Pune office.

At the end of the internship, the intern should have developed an efficient circulation system, serials system (for periodicals / journals) and acquisition system for the smooth and efficient running of the Library. The intern will also have to work on ENVIS related tasks apart from the Library.

Essential:

Graduation in Library and Information Science

Knowledge of working with computers.