![]() ![]() I regularly call on my staff to do any number of miscellaneous jobs that are beyond their normal duties. Their shelving contributions make this collection accessible and user friendly. In my particular case my students shelve over 200,000 pieces a year. They are the face that the public sees from the first worker at the desk to the shelvers in the stacks. It’s a fact that we count on our student workers each and every day. I have three students graduating in May: Catelyn Johnson, Anne Nakamura, and Marie Richards. They take sad, tired books and rejuvenate them for a longer useful life. My book repair students make a concrete contribution to the Libraries their repairs not only keep the books circulating but the books are more visually appealing as well. Mary McInroy, Maps Librarian, Main Library We will sorely miss them both and wish them only the best. ![]() What a lot of talent manifests itself in Lilly and Erin. This means working with the digital camera and unwieldy old books, massaging the resulting images, creating metadata, and using CONTENTdm to serve up the results for the public to enjoy on the web. ![]() She has been our go-to student.Įrin has been digitizing old county atlases and putting them onto the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections site. ![]() Lilly has been with us since her first week of school as a freshman, I think, and been a wonderful, conscientious student, doing everything from aerial photo scanning to preservation work to special assignments to the usual. Likewise, the assistants do an excellent job of handling heavy desk traffic this is important when full-time staff have to juggle reference questions and online work. There have been many occasions when a student employee has spared regular staff overtime shifts. Given the many hours that many of the Libraries are open - and high-volume, public contact - student assistants are essential. We will miss Dan and his warm personality. We have been extremely appreciative of his excellent judgement in all matters. Dan has been exceptionally dependable, and worked many of our evening and weekend hours during this past year. His assistance to our patrons has always been exact and friendly and timely. Dan flourished in the Psychology Library’s public service setting. Congratulation graduates!ĭaniel Luzum is just an outstanding student assistant! He has been with us at the Psychology Library for 1 year, and although we are sorry to lose him, we are very proud of his accomplishments and wish him all the best as he graduates from the University this year. I hope they get as much out of the job as the job gets out of them, I certainly learn as much from them as they do from me. Our jobs wouldn’t be half as interesting or fun without our student assistants, aside from not being able to do this without them. These students do all kinds of library jobs – checking out and reshelving books, digitizing rare photographs, creating catalog records for items, scanning journal articles and book chapters for online document delivery, assisting people with multimedia projects, repairing damaged books and answering questions at the reference desk.īelow are some comments from Libraries staff about our student employees. Each year the University of Iowa Libraries employs about 250 students to help keep the library system running smoothly. ![]()
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