NCDS Internship Site Application

The NNLM National Center for Data Services is seeking for health sciences libraries partners to serve as internship sites* for our upcoming summer internship, providing hands-on provide practical experiences for graduate students of color interested in working as data librarians in health sciences contexts. If you have a data project that will be of benefit to your library and can be completed by several individuals undergoing data literacy training, support, and mentoring through NCDS, please submit your project information here. The projects must be well-defined and utilizing an already-existing dataset. Data can be messy as internship participants will be learning skills including data cleaning, structuring, analysis, or visualization. Since the internship is limited to 10 weeks over the summer, and there are a plethora of skills within the "data literacy" umbrella, it should be clear in the application which 1-3 elements of data literacy will be the focus for this project.

There is a time commitment where the contact person from your library will need to regularly meet with the internship participant(s) working on the site project and to attend final presentations. Questions? Email ncds@nnlm.gov

*Please note: The next internship will be fully virtual.

About the NCDS Data Internship: https://www.nnlm.gov/about/centers/ncds/internship

Contact Name:

Full name and any preferred honorifics

Email:

Email address

Host Institution:

You may also want to include background information about the institution.

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Job title:

Brief description of role and responsibilities

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Project Title:

Description (2-3 paragraphs):

Include background information, historical context, work that has been completed so far, general project concept, limitations at the client institution, links to or attachments with documentation, and other helpful information.

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Research Questions:

What issue would you like the interns to investigate? Please make sure they are specific, measurable, data-based questions or a clear outcome (i.e., a dataset, exploritory analysis, etc.). If possible, please provide more than one research question.

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Please list 3-5 learning objectives for the intern:

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Data Skills to Be Developed:

What data skills will the interns learn or expand on during the internship?

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Expected Output:

Provide a list here, such as a script in python for automating reporting, an interactive dashboard in Tableau, a written report, etc.

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Data source:

Provide a description of or link to the data that will be provided to the intern

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Data format:

Example: Data is in the form of an excel document, SQL database, etc.

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Data analysis tool(s):

List the software that can be used

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Do you have any questions for the NNLM NCDS Internship team?

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I attest by checking this box that our site contact(s):

will set up the selected applicants for our site with access to needed software, systems, files, data, etc. prior to their start date;
will be available the first week of the internship (the week of June 3rd) to meet a few times with my site interns in order to provide them with information on their project and support in getting started/getting access to any institutional tools, resources, etc.;
will meet with the interns weekly as a group; and
will provide any additional support (or enriching activities) for providing the site's interns with a fulfilling experience.

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I agree

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