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Work Study Library Remote MO

Detailed oriented, friendly attitude, Highly Adaptable Department : 121 - Library Location : Remote Number of Students Needed : 1 Times Needed : 5-15 hours a week, Ability to work nights and weekends ...

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Air Force District of Washington

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Work Study Library Remote MO

ATSU Work Study

Remote

Part-time

Re-posted 12 days ago

Job description

Job Type
Part-time
Description
Purpose: Repository Assistance to Library Liaisons
Job Description: The Library seeks an organized, self-motivated non-residential work-study student to help maintain and submit digital scholarly objects into Still ScholarWorks, the ATSU institutional repository. The student will create several emails for our liaisons to send to identified faculty-published authors. The student will use already placed sources to maintain a database of ATSU-published articles with the goal of their inclusion into the ATSU repository. It is anticipated that this position will work 5-15 hours a week. Training for all job duties will be provided.
Job Duties
• Compile a list of faculty research in an Excel spreadsheet or other databases/spreadsheet from disparate sources such as research newsletters, PubMed alerts, and Scopus alerts.
• Compose emails to faculty and student authors for article submissions to Still ScholarWorks, the ATSU repository.
• Consult and interpret the Romeo Sherpa database to request the correct copy of article submissions for inclusion in the article request email.
• Upload and include correct metadata for each submitted article
• Participate in repository-related projects such as thesis
Qualifications: Ability to work nights and weekends, good academic standing
Skills: Excellent communication skills, Project management, and good organizational skills, Ability to search library databases like PubMed
Special characteristics: Detailed oriented, friendly attitude, Highly Adaptable
Department: 121 - Library
Location: Remote
Number of Students Needed: 1
Times Needed: 5-15 hours a week, Ability to work nights and weekends
Days Needed: Monday-Sunday
Physical Requirements: Normal
Additional Physical Requirements: N/A
Requirements
A.T. University (ATSU) does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its programs and activities.

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