Hi,
I am a librarian technician at my library; currently, my job description
is a mixture of serials management and collection management.

I have two graduate assistants and one undergraduate student.  I usually
share the wealth of monotonous work: checking urls and verifying/setting
coverage dates. I do, however, divide the other duties by each workers'
strength. Graduate assistant(A), I trust to work in depth with serials
solutions and to help me with license maintenance. Graduate assistant
(B),basically enjoys weeding and determining the value of gift books.
The undergraduate student assist me with the other odds and ends of
serials work, typically looking up information and help maintain the
physical folders.

I plan to have another undergraduate student to help me establish and
maintain the web-page.  I hope this helps, let me know your thoughts.

Misty Joyner
Collection Management
Joyner Library at ECU
Greenville, NC  27834
252.328.1803
joynermi@ecu.edu

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Siegert
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:37 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] looking for student job suggestions

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