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internships and practicum
To gain hands-on experience studying
and working in one’s area of emphasis,
we strongly encourage students to
participate in our program of internships
and practicum. Students select their work
site based on program interests and career
goals and have the opportunity to work in
such leading cultural organizations as The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
and Brooklyn public libraries, the New
York and Brooklyn historical societies,
Brooklyn Museum, and Pratt libraries in
addition to numerous other academic and
special libraries in the metropolitan area
in fields such as IT, publishing, and the
corporate sector.
international programs
Responding to the globalization of
information and library service,
SILS’s new program in international
librarianship offers courses in Florence
and London.
▶ (^) Florence in partnership with Studio
Art Centers International (SACI)
is a five-week, six-credit program
offering two three-credit courses
that run concurrently and are
taught by SACI Italian faculty:
▶ (^) Florentine Art and Culture,
Museum and Library Research and
Documentation
▶ (^) Cultural Heritage Conservation—
Focuses on paper conservation
including rare books, manuscripts,
and art on paper.
▶ (^) London Summer School on
E-Publishing and Bloomsbury
Conference in partnership with
University College London (UCL),
Department of Information is
a two-week, three-credit program
taught by UCL faculty. It features
visits to publishers and libraries
in London, Cambridge, and Oxford,
and lectures by noted academics.
workshops
SILS provides students with a series of
all-day workshops taught by experts
in their field. Fall 2011 workshops
included Paper Conservation, Rare
Book Cataloging, Introduction to EAD,
Introduction to Archivists Toolkit, Grant-
writing for Digitization Projects, Graphic
and Sequential Novels, and Podcasting
and Information Visualization.
“So many of the
professors I had at Pratt
built an awareness
in me that community is
the focus, and we have
to meet the demands of
the community.”
—Mary Graham, M.L.S. ’78,
Former Deputy Director
for Public Service,
Brooklyn Public Library
“Forty years have passed,
and I still believe that
Pratt Institute, with its
friendly atmosphere, was
the best thing that ever
happened to me.”
—Dr. Farideh Tehrani,
M.S.L.I.S. ’76, Librarian,
Rutgers University Libraries
SILS students in the Conservation Lab course at the
Brooklyn College Archives Lab