The internship provides an opportunity for students to synthesize principles and theories acquired in coursework and application of these principles and theories in a working environment. Under professional supervision, the student will complete 135 hours emphasizing general understanding of the specific assignment and completion of a focused project. The goal of the internship course is to give students an opportunity to gain real-world experience applying the knowledge and skills they have acquired over the course of their major work (SLO 2, ALA 2, PLG 1, PLG 2). The learning goals my internship supervisor created were: Demonstrate competence with RDA, ISBD punctuation, MARC21, LOC Classification, and other basic cataloging standards and practices. Accurately describe rare materials using a variety of controlled vocabularies, provenance information, binding and condition descriptions, and other related rare book cataloging practices. Identify common preservation concerns and understand collaboration between cataloging and preservation departments. Exercise familiarity with machine press monograph cataloging (materials post-1825) following current rare materials cataloging standards. Time permitting, develop understanding of hand press monograph cataloging (materials pre-1825) following current rare materials cataloging standards. Gain familiarity of various bibliographic and reference sources, and how they can assist in cataloging rare materials.