DSS is Recruiting a Summer Digital Scholarship Services Assistant

Digital Scholarship Services in Lafayette College Libraries is recruiting a summer student assistant to support our work developing digital collections. This is a great opportunity to work closely with Special Collections materials, learn about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating digital material, improve your digital literacy, and develop skills with different kinds of hardware, software, and web publishing platforms.  Please email a cover letter and resume to Janna Avon, Digital Initiatives Librarian, avonj@lafayette.edu.  Deadline: May 31, 2019.  Feel free to reach out to Janna with any questions about the position.

Tasks:

• Scanning special collections and college archives materials using flatbed scanners and BookEye scanner.
• Creating item level descriptive metadata for digitized items.
• Ingesting metadata and scans into digital publishing platforms.
• Documenting processes, testing workflows, and assisting in drafting and editing user guides and instructions.
• Reflective writing for the DSS blog.

Qualifications

• High attention to detail.
• Strong ability to follow instructions.
• Ability to maintain attention while performing repetitive tasks.
• Comfortable learning new software and digital tools.
• Able to safely handle delicate physical materials and equipment.
• Strong communication skills.