DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
The Consequences of Success: Acknowledging, Valuing, and Compensating Digital Scholarship Labor
Rachel Schnepper(1), Francesca Livermore(1), Elizabeth Rodrigues(2), Emma Freeman(1), Alicia Peaker(3), Stella Fritzell(3)
1: Wesleyan University, United States of America; 2: Grinnell College, United States of America; 3: Bryn Mawr College, United States of America
 
Digital scholarship projects allow students to collaborate with faculty, librarians, technologists, & other staff, necessitating a reimagining of relationships often at odds with traditional hierarchies of power. For this discussion, we propose: 1) A brief introduction of panel participants & their situation; 2) Moderated, open discussion around questions of ethical labor relations.

Graduate Student Internships in an Academic Library: A Case Study at the University of Florida
Hélène Huet, April Hines
University of Florida
 
This presentation focuses on the UF Libraries’ Graduate Student Internship Program. First, we discuss its value for graduate students’ academic career and for promoting fair labor practices. Then, we highlight the Visual Anthropology internship: how we collected and analyzed social media data to study student behavior and ethnography of place.
 
 
Student Support for Digital Initiatives: Integrating Student Assistants into Staff Workflows
Christina Miskey, Kelsey Lupo, Andrea Wirth, Cory Lampert
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 
Several departments at UNLV have worked to adapt staff managed workflows to incorporate students. Utilizing various methods to fit their diverse needs, each department (Digital Collections and Scholarly Communications Initiatives) has increased student roles, freeing staff to work on higher level projects and update, rethink, improve, and streamline existing workflows.