"We have seven students doing CIS 60.1 projects in the Library Systems unit. This semester I took a slightly different approach in giving individual assignments to students. I have prepared projects that consist of two parts. Almost all students contribute their time to a digitizing project in the New Media Center. In addition two students have been assigned to Special Collections to assist in the creation of virtual exhibits. Two more students are working on ePrimates http://aitdev.brooklyn.cuny.edu/eprimates , a site we are building for Professor Alfred Rosenberger, Anthropology. This site is planned to be used as an online reference resource for students." Alex Rudshteyn, Associate Director for Library SystemsInternships often lead to real-life jobs, and several units in the Library and Academic IT support them.
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Theresa Hale Volney Cain |
Lesbian Herstory Archive Special Collections, Brooklyn College Library |
"For many years, Alexander S. Preminger was a research librarian at Brooklyn College. Born in Berlin in 1915, Professor Preminger was educated at the Kaiserin Augusta Gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1934. Immigrating to the United States while still a young man, he served his country in the U.S. military between 1942 and 1945. After the war, Professor Preminger earned an undergraduate degree from New York University (1950). He went on to another prestigious school, Columbia University, where he was granted a masters in library science in 1952. Immediately after completing his education, Alex Preminger joined the staff of the Brooklyn College Library, where he pursued what some have termed a brilliant scholarly career that spanned more than 25 years.In the spring 2004, a committee was established to develop criteria for the Alex Preminger Archival internship; members included Dr. Barbra Higginbotham, Professor Anthony Cucchiara, Professor Philip Napoli, Mr. Robert Oliva and Ms Marianne LaBatto. This wonderful opportunity for post-graduate students of library science or archival studies carries a stipend of $5,000; it was established by Toby Preminger, the niece of former Brooklyn College librarian Alex Preminger, using funds from his estate. Applications were sent to library schools across the country; the opportunity was also posted electronically on the listservs of many library schools and programs for museum studies and archival certification. Ms Dorothea Coiffe, a recent graduate of Pratt Institute and a City College undergraduate, was selected by the committee; she will do her internship in the summer 2004.
"In terms of his professional responsibilities within the Library, Professor Preminger served in a number of progressively responsible capacities, including Periodicals and Documents Librarian (1952-1959), Social Science Librarian (1959-1960), Humanities Librarian (1960-1965), Chief of the Humanities Division (1965-1972) and Chief of the Reference Division (1972-1977). In 1971, he achieved the rank of Associate Professor. Alex Preminger complemented a very successful career as a librarian with scholarly excellence. His publication The Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1965) enjoyed two further editions (The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1974) and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993)). It is a standard in any serious reference collection, a work widely considered to be one of the most eminent ever published by a Brooklyn College faculty member, reaching considerably beyond traditional library scholarship.
"Professor Preminger devoted his life to academic and intellectual pursuits. He published several other works of continuing critical importance. Among these are Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (Ungar, 1974), The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations (Ungar, 1986), and The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms (1986). Fluent in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Dutch, and Hebrew, Alex Preminger was well suited to produce this sort of scholarship. Contemporaries of Professor Preminger from his years at Brooklyn College term him a ‘real intellectual.' But beyond his professional and scholarly distinctiveness, he is also remembered as a caring colleague, someone who mentored and nurtured new colleagues in the Library and who cared for others. One member of the Library faculty remembers him as a kind and wonderful counselor who strongly influenced her career." The Alex Preminger Internship in Curatorial Studies: A Proposal to the Preminger Family from Brooklyn College, February 11, 1998