For several months in 2025, Andreas Celaya worked as the Livingston Masonic Library’s library intern. Andreas began his library internship at the Livingston Masonic Library in April of 2025, and completed his work with the Library in October of 2025. Andreas is a 2024 graduate of Hunter College in New York City, and currently works part-time as a visitor associate at the Frick Collection Museum in New York City. He is interested in librarianship as a career path, and is considering applying to Pratt Institute’s School of Information Science in the spring of 2026. He wanted to do an internship for the library because he wanted to find out what library work is like and to get experience working on library projects.
Andreas started his internship working on routine library tasks. This was meant to expose him to the daily work of the Library. He created Reading Course certificates for library patrons that completed Masonic Reading Courses. Also, he helped with library circulation work. In addition, he spent time learning how to use the Library’s Follett-Destiny system to check in and check out books, update patron accounts, and create patron accounts. Furthermore, Andreas worked to answer Masonic genealogy and research queries for library patrons.
After learning how to do more general library tasks, Andreas began to work on various library projects. For example, he finished the Biography Files Inventory. This Microsoft Excel inventory is a searchable list of all the biography files on Masons that exist in the file cabinets in the Library’s back stacks. Also, Andreas made significant progress with cataloging book donations to the Library. He learned how to catalog books into Follett-Destiny and assign them call numbers and subject headings. In addition, he learned how to do book processing (creating bookplates, labeling books, and applying Co-Libri covers to circulating books). By the end of his cataloging project, he finished cataloging over 120 books.
Since Andreas made such rapid progress with cataloging books for the Library, he moved on to other library projects to work on until his internship ends in October of 2025. For instance, he worked on transcribing several sections of member data from the 1832-1853 Grand Lodge of New York member ledger into Microsoft Excel for the Masonic Genealogy project. In addition, he also worked on the Library Book Inventory Project – this project involves working to inventory all books in the back stacks of the Library that circulate or meet the requirements for circulation. This will help the Library determine which books to advertise to library patrons as circulating and which books to migrate to circulating status.
