{"id":5996,"date":"2011-07-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slisgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-descriptor\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:30:00","slug":"my-youth-services-internship-at-atherton-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/my-youth-services-internship-at-atherton-library\/","title":{"rendered":"My Youth Services Internship at Atherton Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/@font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} \/* Style Definitions *\/p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:\"\"; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}@page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1 {page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">            by Pat Oey<\/span><\/p>\n<style><!-- \/* Font Definitions *\/@font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; 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text-underline:single;}@page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1 {page:Section1;}--><\/style>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">From the time I began my SLIS coursework, I eagerly looked forward to taking LIBR 294, Professional Experience:&nbsp; Internships.&nbsp; As someone who is not already employed in a library setting, the appeal of the course is clear\u2014getting hands-on experience that would not only inform future career decisions, but would also make those career possibilities open up because I would actually be able to list the experience on my resume!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">So, from the moment I completed my prerequisites (200, 202, 203, 204, and three elective courses), I would peruse the <a href=\"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/libr294\/index.php\">Internship Sites page<\/a> and dream and plan.&nbsp; As luck would have it, on Thanksgiving Day 2010 I discovered a listing from Atherton Library in California for a youth services intern\u2014the description seemed a perfect fit for me.&nbsp; I applied, interviewed, and was granted the opportunity to serve as Atherton\u2019s youth services intern for Spring 2011!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">My first encounter of Atherton Library (a branch of the San Mateo County Library) was incredibly pleasant.&nbsp; It is a one-room library which was added onto a house that used to belong to the police chief of Atherton, so the staff work rooms are quaint, and there are two bathtubs in the bathrooms (one of which the children\u2019s librarians use for storing crafts materials).&nbsp; Atherton itself is a very small, rural community, so the pace at the library was far from stressful.&nbsp; There was a healthy flow of patrons, but the atmosphere never got crazy, and the friendliness that can characterize a smaller community prevailed.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The two children\u2019s librarians with whom I worked could not have been better mentors to me, sharing their experiences and recommending materials for me to read (children\u2019s books\u2014just up my alley) in order to get to know the library\u2019s collection.&nbsp; Every staff member was welcoming and helpful to me, from my supervisor (herself a SLIS graduate) to the senior library assistant who told me about the ins and outs of the library and its workings.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">During my time at Atherton, I trained in storytelling and delivered storytimes to a local Headstart preschool as part of an outreach program; wrote lots of blogs for the youth and parents that were posted on the library\u2019s website; categorized juvenile materials according to genre for a database; got my feet wet with reference help; led a week of crafts for kids ages 3 and up; and learned how to design an online tutorial to help with one of the library\u2019s databases.&nbsp; Most of all, though, I benefitted from the experience of being in a library four days a week, coming into contact with children, and observing how seasoned children\u2019s librarians handle programming, reader\u2019s advisory, and storytimes for the youth in the community.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I honestly believe that I learned as much from the practical experience of the internship as I have in a regular class, and the live contact with people was just fabulous.&nbsp; Sometimes you just want to put what you\u2019ve learned into practice, and internships give you a chance to do that.&nbsp; A great advantage to doing the internship through LIBR 294 is that you have the opportunity to read the experiences that other people taking the class are having\u2014so, in essence, you can live vicariously and get a taste of many other types of internships.&nbsp; I found this especially helpful, as I could read about students interning in academic settings and use this as input for deciding whether to do another internship in a similar setting.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">All this is by way of encouraging you wholeheartedly to take LIBR 294 if you are wondering if it is worthwhile\u2014it definitely was for me!&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">___________________________________________________________________________ <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Patty Oey is hoping to graduate in Fall 2012, and then to get a job working with children in a public library.&nbsp; This is a picture of her with her son Torion, who is looking at her skeptically.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Pat Oey From the time I began my SLIS coursework, I eagerly looked forward to taking LIBR 294, Professional Experience:&nbsp; Internships.&nbsp; As someone who is not already employed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,253],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-july-2011","category-descriptor-news","tag-internships","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolgroups.sjsu.edu\/alasc\/wp-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}