<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">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). <div>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). </div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Judith Nagata (she/her)<div>Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian</div><div>Dinand Library</div><div>College of the Holy Cross</div><div>Worcester, MA 01610</div><div>p: 508-793-2639</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:jnagata@holycross.edu" target="_blank">jnagata@holycross.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5634955567625798109">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">In the past we have used students to do periodic access checks for our a la carte local e-journal subscriptions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Do any of you that manage electronic resources or your discovery layers, have student employees that you oversee? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If yes, what types of projects or work do you assign to them? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If no, and you could have a student employee, what work might you assign to a student?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks for any responses to this question! Feel free to contact me off list if that's preferable.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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