GSLIS master’s student Janet Swatscheno has been selected to participate in the highly competitive 2015 Library of Congress (LoC) Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program. She will spend ten weeks working full time on-site in Washington, DC, at the LoC’s John W. Kluge Center, which hosts scholars from the United States and abroad.
Swatscheno’s project is to conduct an evaluation of the center’s information needs related to its internal database of information on visiting scholars. Center staff use the database to extract data for documents such as reports and press releases. Following her evaluation, Swatscheno will recommend and implement changes to improve usability.
Swatscheno hopes this summer experience will complement her coursework at GSLIS in areas including data curation, digital preservation, and digital humanities. “I really enjoyed the database class, which was one of the reasons I applied for the particular project I am working on at the Library of Congress,” she said. She also hopes to develop her project management skills and is excited to get a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of the world’s largest library.