Internship

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University accepts interns within the scope of the Presidential Career Center Internship Mobilization National Internship Program .

Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kariyer Merkezi Ulusal Staj Programı

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Library provides students of the Department of Information and Records Management with the opportunity to do university and research library internships.

  • Interns do their internships in periods determined as suitable for the student and the institution.
  • Interns do their internships at Menteşe Library, the central library of our University.
  • At the end of the internship, it is aimed that the interns will gain knowledge and skills such as learning the service policy of the library, comprehending professional ethical principles, applying professional theoretical knowledge, career planning, working together and in harmony, and taking responsibility.
  • Interns receive theoretical and practical training in Collection Management, Movable Registration and Control, Lending, Consultation and User Services Units and Open Access services office.
Compliance with the Rules Students who do internship in our library must comply with all rules applicable to staff (working hours, general working rules, etc.). Students who show incompatibility in the internship program may be removed from the program and internship applications will not be accepted again.

Interns are trained in the following areas. The internship period is determined by the university where the intern is a student.

1

Orientation

  • Meeting and library introduction,
  • Library collection,
  • Rules to be followed by civil servants,
  • Interpersonal relations in the working environment,
  • Professional ethical principles,
  • Relevant legislation.
2

Collection Management Unit

Selection - Provisioning and Purchasing

  • General information about the unit,
  • Election and Provision policy,
  • Publication provisioning request methods,
  • Bibliographic control of requests,
  • Control of requests from the library collection,
  • Determination of prices and cost calculation of publications,
  • Requesting price quotes from companies,
  • Evaluation and ordering,
  • Control and inspection of incoming orders,
  • Payment transactions of electronic and printed resources provided to the library,
  • Donation acceptance conditions, selection and processing of publications (applied),
  • Scanning the selected donated publications in the library collection,
  • Checking from the shelf,
  • Pricing,
  • List creation,
  • Creating a price determination report,
  • Movable and belonging transactions of accepted publications,
  • Transactions of sending donations and publications to other institutions or organizations,
  • Warehouse management,
  • Preparation of unit statistics.

Movable Registration and Control Unit

  • Movable transactions, belonging transactions,
  • Transfer transactions,
  • Preparation of collection statistics.

Cataloging and Classification Unit

  • Making a general introduction of the cataloging and classification unit,
  • Cataloging terms in librarianship,
  • Classification systems,
  • Information about the LC classification table,
  • MARC,
  • RDA and AACR2,
  • Cataloging with KOHA library automation system,
  • Z39.50 MARC transfer,
  • Examples of manual cataloging,
  • Preparation of spine labels and return slips of publications whose cataloging and classification processes have been completed,
  • Application of security tape,
  • Shelving the publications whose technical processes have been completed to be presented to the service of the readers,
  • Preparation of unit statistics.

Periodicals Unit

  • Processes related to the subscription or purchase of periodicals and audio-visual materials,
  • Selection and sorting of materials (audio-visual and printed periodicals) provided by donation or purchase,
  • Creating a system record of the periodicals provided,
  • Periodicals shelf layout (storage and physical access of audio-visual and printed periodicals),
  • Claim processes of periodicals,
  • Cataloging periodicals,
  • Cataloging of audio-visual materials,
  • Creating identifying labels for the materials belonging to the periodicals section (audiovisual and printed magazines) for security and physical access,
  • Follow-up of publisher announcements and publication on the website,
  • Computer room management,
  • Photocopy and printing services, protection of copyrights,
  • Preparation of unit statistical data.
3

Circulation Unit

  • Ethical rules and protection of personal data,
  • Registering readers as members,
  • Archiving member forms,
  • Lending, returning and extension transactions,
  • Reservation procedures,
  • Delayed publication transactions,
  • Dismissal procedures,
  • Shelving procedures of returned publications,
  • Communication with the user,
  • Application examples,
  • Preparation of unit statistical data.
4

Information and User Services Unit and Electronic Resources

  • General information about the unit,
  • Ensuring shelf order,
  • Library usage and catalog search,
  • Answering questions from users,
  • Transactions regarding publications that cannot be found on the shelf,
  • Planning and implementation of library orientation trainings for newly enrolled students,
  • Face-to-face or online library usage and electronic resource (database) trainings for researchers who request individually or as a group,
  • Off-campus access to electronic resources via proxy server or YETKİM,
  • Bibliography preparation programs (Mendeley, Zotero) user trainings,
  • Plagiarism programs (Turnitin, iThenticate, İntihal.net) user accounts management and consultation service,
  • E-resource usage statistics tracking,
  • Providing trial access to new databases and tracking them,
  • Providing documents (articles, papers, book chapters, etc.),
  • Interlibrary loan transactions (ILL), ANKOS KITS,
  • Preparation of unit statistics and processing of library statistics of all units into the Library Management Information System,
  • Carrying out announcement services through the website, e-mail and social media accounts,
  • Announcement and follow-up of open access resources and databases on the website,
  • Procedures related to part-time students,
  • Library website management and library management information system.
6

Open Access

  • Open science, open access and open archive concepts,
  • Open access roads (golden road, green road, platinum, diamond road),
  • Determination of whether a publication is open access,
  • Examination of the Sherpa/Romeo program showing what the open access rules of a journal are,
  • MSKU institutional open access policy,
  • Introduction of MSKU institutional academic open archive system,
  • Enterprise open access archive user accounts management,
  • Data entry to the institutional open access archive,
  • Collation of publications addressed to our University via Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and TR-Index.

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Menteşe Library, Department of Information and Records Management accepts 3rd and 4th year students as interns.

Students who want to do an internship can apply with an official letter in accordance with the internship regulations they will receive from the Information and Records Management Departments of their universities and the Internship Application Petition linked below.

In addition, at the beginning of the internship; During their internship in our institution, they are obliged to submit a letter stating that the insurance procedures will be carried out by their universities in accordance with Article 25 of the Vocational Education Law No. 3308 and the "SSI Insured Employment Declaration".

The period in which the intern students will do their internship is planned in advance and communicated to them by the relevant librarian when they start their internship. During the internship period, students are provided with practice in all units of the library (Cataloging-Classification, Provision, Lending, Consulting, Periodicals, etc.).

At the End of the Internship

  1. Students gain knowledge and experience in the field of university/research libraries and librarianship,
  2. They have the opportunity to get to know the librarianship profession, to follow the developments related to the profession and to take part in new applications,
  3. They take part in the profession practically and have ideas to determine their careers according to their professional interests.
Important Note Students who do internship in our library must comply with all rules applicable to staff (working hours, general working rules, etc.). Students who show incompatibility in the internship program may be removed from the program and internship applications will not be accepted again.