[Eril-l] Electronic Resources Management Fellow - Paid Summer Internships at UNC Charlotte Atkins Library

Tokoro, Shoko stokoro at uncc.edu
Thu Feb 9 11:33:35 PST 2017


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*Electronic Resources Management Fellow*
Paid Summer Internships at UNC Charlotte Atkins Library - Apply by February
21
*https://jobs.uncc.edu/postings/14230
<https://jobs.uncc.edu/postings/14230>*

Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte is accepting applications for our Atkins
Fellows summer program. Applications submitted by Tuesday, February 21 will
receive first consideration. These fellowships are designed to give LIS
students hands-on experience in an academic library.

The Atkins Fellows program is an eleven-week summer residential fellowship
for students at the mid-point of their Library, Archives, or Information
Science degree program. It is designed to provide each Fellow who
participates with a work experience that is focused on professional-level
tasks, with high level of independence and creativity, while also
supporting Atkins Library's mission, goals, and initiatives.  The six
projects proposed for 2017 are in the areas of Public Services, Assessment
and Analytics, Digital Image Processing, Technology Services, Born-Digital
University Records, and Electronic Resource Management. Participants in
this program will receive a $6,000 stipend, paid at an hourly rate
($13.64/hour, for eleven weeks of forty hours per week).

*Description*:
Atkins Library collects and manages thousands of electronic resources. In
order to manage all of the electronic resources effectively, the library is
implementing an Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS). The fellow
will work with the Electronic and Continuing Resources Librarian and the
Collection Development Librarian on creating workflows for adding
information to the system, help populate the system, and code licenses to
determine what information should be included. Through this work they will
learn the intricacies of electronic resources management including
acquisitions, licensing, and assessment and be prepared to perform this
work in a professional capacity upon completion of the fellowship.

*Preferred Education/Training, Experience, Skills/Competencies:*
Basic familiarity with the MARC cataloging format and cataloging
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Familiarity with common subscription database collections at an academic
library.

*Duties and Responsibilities:*
Research best practices for electronic resource management.
Populate ERMS with information about the libraries electronic resources
collection.
Create and update records of resources, licensing, organizations, and
usages statistics in ERMS.
Review, code, and organize the electronic resources license agreements and
contracts.
Gather, manage, and assess electronic resources COUNTER compliant usage
statistics.
Assist in creating workflow for future use of the ERMS and create guides
instructing others on the workflow.
Work collaboratively to coordinate responses to reports of access problems.

Supervisors: Shoko Tokoro, Electronic and Continuing Resources Librarian (
stokoro at uncc.edu)
Liz Siler, Collection Development Librarian (esiler3 at uncc.edu)

More information can be found here: https://library.uncc.edu/atkinsfellows


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Shoko Tokoro | Electronic and Continuing Resources Librarian
UNC Charlotte | J. Murrey Atkins Library | http://library.uncc.edu
9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
704.687.1102 | stokoro at uncc.edu
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