Student Martina Podsklanova, of Belfast, Ireland, was the
2012 recipient of the SLIS NewsBank Scholarship, which
helped support her during her fall 2012 virtual internship at
Calisphere, an online portal of digitized images of historical
artifacts from California repositories. Podsklanova
concentrated on improving user access and enhancing the
online visibility of Calisphere through current strategies,
including search engine optimization (SEO) and the analysis
of web metrics. In an interview before the fall internship,
Podsklanova said, “The web is the first place researchers go
to find a repository or look for documents. Archivists need to
create a solid metadata system so users can find the
information online, and that’s what I’ll be doing in my
internship.”