Summer Job Opportunity

I'm looking for a student to collaborate with me and eventually takeover my position at the Wetherby Cranberry Library. At this point, the groundwork has been established for this position. The duties for this job include cataloging using a custom-scheme, selecting candidates for digitization, digitizing, creating OCR derivatives, and managing ad igital collection using CONTENTdm. I have documented workflows on these parts of the job, so I can train the potential hire. The ideal student will have a willingness to learn about the cranberry industry in Wisconsin.

This is a great opportunity to learn about creating and managing adigital library and a physical archive. The Wetherby Cranberry LibraryDigital Collections is already one of the larger digital libraries in the state of Wisconsin. The search/portal page to the collection can be reached here:http://discovercranberries.com/index.cfm?event=pageview&contentid=31 .This position would require some travel to Warrens, WI, where the archival collection is located, meaning the student would have to have a mode of transportation (at least by August and the transportation is reimbursed).

I've just gotten confirmation that this position will be funded for this summer, so this would make an excellent summer job with a higher wage than typically a student reformatting technician would receive.The time is flexible, but ideally would be around 20 hours per week.This e-mail is to just send the feelers out and see if there are interested students. Interested students should e-mail me atasjonjak@wisc.edu.
Thanks for hearing me out--hope you're all buckling down to finish up strongly,

Best,

Stosh