[Eril-l] Student Employees and Electronic Resources

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I have also given some link checking to student workers (if there were
any). I also have had student workers do some matching/deduping projects
where I have title lists that need to be checked against another list.
Again, these are projects that a human does better and/or one that catches
inconsistencies that a computer might not (or if the metadata is awful and
the computer cannot do the work).
My concern with this is similar to Jaime's: you need interested student
workers who can be taught libraries, systems/platforms, and
publishing knowledge easily. Many students are not taught the basics any
longer so it is more challenging to train someone for these kinds of
projects. And, in my opinion, it takes a certain kind of student who likes
attention-to-detail projects. Link checking is a mind-numbing project but
one that needs to be done carefully. For example, we need to know that the
link works (get to the site) AND the current journal's issue is available
to our institution (and not just the front matter or the letters to the
editor).

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Judith Nagata  (she/her)
Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Dinand Library
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
p: 508-793-2639
e: jnagata at holycross.edu


On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion
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> We have a student worker who does similar thing – she checks that our
> databases & single-title journal subscriptions are working properly. She
> also does some data entry & such in our ERM systems. In the past, I’ve had
> students involved in the easier parts of metadata cleanup & remediation
> projects; if there’s not an automated way to make small but important
> updates a big batch of records, or they need juuuust a little bit of human
> judgement, I’ve assigned that to a student.
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> We’ve been really fortunate in our student workers & have had a couple in
> my time in this position that were very bright & would come up with
> brilliant ways to parse large amounts of data or get tasks done
> efficiently.
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> Jaime Taylor
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> Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator
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> W.E.B. Du Bois Library
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> University of Massachusetts
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> In the past we have used students to do periodic access checks for our a
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> Marty Jenkins
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> Hi Everyone, I just have a question I want to pose to the community. Do
> any of you that manage electronic resources or your discovery layers, have
> student employees that you oversee? If yes, what types of projects or work
> do you assign to them?
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> I just have a question I want to pose to the community.
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> Do any of you that manage electronic resources or your discovery layers,
> have student employees that you oversee?
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> If yes, what types of projects or work do you assign to them?
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> If no, and you could have a student employee, what work might you assign
> to a student?
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> Thanks for any responses to this question! Feel free to contact me off
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> Hannah McKelvey
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> Montana State University Library
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