Digital Programs Graduate Assistant
Supervisor: Danelle Orange
Pay: $13.00/hour
Description
Digital Programs graduate student assistants work alongside library staff to expand and maintain Marquette University’s institutional repository, e-Publications@Marquette. The repository brings together Marquette University scholarly output—dissertations and theses, journal articles, conference proceedings, presentations—to preserve faculty, staff and student scholarship.
Responsibilities
- Assist staff with tasks associated with the growth and maintenance of Marquette’s institutional repository
- Reformat documents in Word, PDF and other formats
- Operate various scanning devices, including Epson flatbed scanner and Indus Bookscanner
- Locate faculty publications, both online and in print, within the library catalog, library shelves, other online databases, and through other libraries via Interlibrary Loan
- Describe materials for the online repository
- Verify document citation information
- Create descriptive records
- Help develop and implement projects to enhance and improve the repository
- Track projects within an Excel spreadsheet
- Upload material to the online repository
Qualifications
Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience with MS Office including intermediate familiarity with Excel and Adobe Acrobat
- Knowledge of basic research techniques (catalog and database searching, citing sources)
- Strong communication skills
- Strong editing/writing skills
- Detail oriented
- On the job training is provided