INTERNSHIP IN INFORMATION SCIENCES
 

General Objective

ESAN/Cendoc offers information science professionals and library and/or information center staff; some internships to help them update themselves in the process of some library area and improve or renew the procedures they carry out in their workplace.

Methodology

It comprises a series of talks and interactive sessions by ESAN/Cendoc professional staff through an "in-situ" training program through an observation visit.

Requirements

• Fill out the internship application form.
• If you are working in a library and/or information center, present a Letter from the immediate Head of your organization accrediting your position in the institution.
• Comply with the responsibilities assumed in relation to the development of the internship (cancellation of the registration at the beginning of the internship, punctual attendance and completion of the assigned tasks).

Content

• Development of specialized collections: the process from acquisition to registration and control of bibliographic resources in an automated library system is explained.
• Analysis of information: it is oriented towards the use of bibliographic description standards and classification systems.
• User attention: guidelines are provided for adequate user attention and an explanation of the operation of the Circulation and Loan area (register in a loan control system). In addition to the design of services and information products.
• Use of information technologies: update on technological innovations applied to libraries. Training in the use of ESAN/Cendoc subscription bibliographic databases and other technological tools (discoverer, bibliographic managers, repositories, etc.)

Duration and economic investment  

The internship lasts a total of 15 hours distributed over a period of 3 days.Investment per participant: S/. 350.00 nuevos soles that must be paid at the beginning of the internship.

ESAN/Cendoc reserves the right to accept applicants, as well as to coordinate in advance the dates of the Internship with the applicant.

SEMINARS-WORKSHOPS IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION  

 
General objective

ESAN/Cendoc provides libraries and/or information centers that need to improve or renew their procedures; a series of didactic talks addressed to its professional and technical personnel in order to implement and maintain a management system that is designed to continuously improve their performance.

Methodology

The seminar workshops will be offered by the professional staff of ESAN/Cendoc; and they will be carried out through didactic talks; In order to obtain better results, intensive work will be carried out between the speakers and the participants, in order to consolidate the concepts and experiences.

Requirements

• Send a request to the ESAN/Cendoc Headquarters indicating the thematic block of interest (see Thematic Blocks).
• Comply with the responsibilities assumed in relation to the Workshop Seminar (procedures and economic investment).

Themátic blocks

ESAN/Cendoc has developed a series of important topics for library work that it has grouped into the following blocks:

1. Administration of information units: deals with the functions and responsibilities assumed by the personnel of the information units in order to manage the processes of: planning, budgeting, control and evaluation.
2. Human factor: it focuses on the human factor itself (human resources) and the outside (users); valuing its role as a constitutive element of the service. It provides guidelines for the librarian profile, user characteristics, and effective service design.
3. Information retrieval: it covers the topics of descriptive cataloging (according to current regulations), indexing and classification systems. Therefore, the documentary process and information retrieval techniques will be discussed.
4. Technological tools for libraries: experiences in the use of online resources such as subscription databases, discoverers, software for remote access to resources will be shared.
5. Resources and tools for academic and scientific research: Some recommendations will be indicated for the preparation and writing of research papers, the use of citation styles for bibliographies and guidelines for an effective search for information in open access sources.

Duration and economic investment

The Workshop Seminar will last 03 days; the hours will be distributed in coordination between the ESAN/Cendoc Headquarters and the requesting institution.

The travel expenses of the ESAN/Cendoc professional staff responsible for developing the Seminar-workshop will be borne by the requesting institution.