Hello!

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share how they handle
online access verification as a student job.

For the last several years, the number of our online access titles
has grown significantly (currently at 2500+).  Typically, I have my
student workers look-up each title (listed on a spreadsheet) and
verify that 1) the URL works, 2) our holdings statement matches our
access and 3) they indicate on the spreadsheet if anything needs to
be updated/changed.

Obviously, this student job is not exciting, and it takes a student
who enjoys monotonous work.  I try not to have a student work on this
for more than an hour at a time.  I have only had one student worker
actually say that she enjoyed the job.

Here are some questions that I have --

Do you hire one or two student workers to exclusively work on this
task?  Or do you "share the wealth" with all of your student
workers?  Would anyone have a job description that they'd be willing
to share?  I have attempted to write a job description for this task,
but it typically doesn't get much interest.

Thanks for your help,

Ken

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Ken Siegert
Acquisitions Assistant
Electronic Resources & Periodicals / U.S. Documents
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA  17604-3003

Phone -     (717) 291-4219
Fax -     (717) 291-4160