Student job opportunities

Duties

Prepares photographs and documents for digitization:

• Identifies and reports any irregularities in materials
• Scans images, documents and other materials using appropriate scanning hardware
• Assigns departmental file naming scheme to all files

Performs Quality Control and final reviews of digitized items:

• Reviews digital images ensuring there are no missed scans, duplicates, or scanning errors
• Identifies scanning issues and works with other team members to make the proper corrections

Contributes to a positive work attitude within the DLS by working cooperatively with others.

Requirements

• High attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Capacity to learn new computer technologies quickly and effectively
• Ability to handle fragile archive materials with care
• Experience with Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office
• General office/clerical skills
• Ability to work in an open, team-oriented environment

Skills preferred

Experience using photo editing software and scanning equipment.

Duties

Provide communications and administrative support to the Libraries Communications and Advancement team. The communications team provides marketing and communications support for the Libraries, reaching students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota, as well as library donors and supporters. The Development team within Advancement raises funds to support library programs and initiatives.

Support will include updating the Libraries news blog with event and workshop information, providing routine clerical support, and providing communications support in the form of writing and/or photography, and/or videography.

The student hired for this position will be responsible for

• website updates (20%)  
• various administrative/clerical tasks (50%), and
• communications: writing, photography, and/or videography (30%).

Requirements

• Enrolled at UMN as an undergraduate or graduate student in good standing
• Demonstrated strong communications skills (both verbal and written) with attention to detail
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to manage time, strong sense of commitment to project completion, and flexibility in scheduling
• Proficiency in Google Suite and/or MS Office, including Google Docs/Word and Google Sheets/Excel
• Experience with updating websites
• Communications experience in the form of writing, photography, or videography

About the position

The University of Minnesota Libraries invites undergraduate or graduate students to apply for a part-time project-based position to provide supervised research support on a short-term quantitative assessment project. Work schedule is dependent on student availability.

The student will report to the Assessment Librarian and work closely with staff across the Student Success service area.

Duties

The student hired for this position will be responsible for providing research support for a large scale quantitative data analysis project exploring the connections between student academic success and availability of affordable course materials. The duties may include

• developing a data analysis protocol (20%),
• cleaning and managing data (20%), and
• conducting statistical analysis (40%).

Requirements

• Enrolled at UMN as an undergraduate or graduate student in good standing
• Strong communications skills (both verbal and written)
• Proficiency in statistical analysis using R, SPSS or a similar program
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to manage time, strong sense of commitment to project completion, and flexibility in scheduling