Student Intern duties at the Charleston Conference:

• The more interns there are, the less the burden on each. Although there will be a specific schedule set up for the registration desk, interns should expect to be asked to do things on the spur of the moment as well. Consider that interns pay less than 10% of regular registrants when deciding if interning is worth it!
• Who's in charge? - A variety of conference organizers will assign interns a variety of duties. Two LIS faculty, Heidi Hoerman (South Carolina) and Elaine Yontz (Valdosta) are the intern coordinators and will make sure you are not over-burdened.
• Registration desk and other sign up desks - Student interns are asked to man the conference registration desk and the sign-up desks for the juried products sessions.
• Juried session door checks - Interns check sign-up sheets and restrict admission to the Juried Product Development Sessions. Those who are interning can slip in to see what is going on at the door they are guarding as long as they continue their “bouncer” duties. There will be conference staff around to help you if someone wants to argue that they should be let in.
• Twittering the Conference, etc. - Interns who Tweet and are familiar with other social networking media will work with conference organizers to utilize these tools.
• Lively lunches - Interns help organize distribution of the box lunches. There are often left-over lunches that people paid for but didn't pick up that will feed some of the interns. So you can take pot luck. But have munchies in your pocket in case there aren't enough of these to go around.
• Guiding folks around the Conference and to the Reception. Interns may be asked to help guide people to meetings in other buildings and to the receptions.
• Other duties. Interns may be asked to perform other duties like grabbing extra chairs, paging someone in an emergency, etc. Usually, there isn't too much of this.