This presentation describes the ways in which a digital scholarship unit at an academic library supports student learning initiatives, and how the institutional repository benefits from these collaborations.

We discuss recruitment of student works for the repository, including pre-existing works, and soliciting the submission of new works through relationships with instructors.

We discuss collections that have been curated by students, or consist primarily of content created by students. We include observations of trade-offs related to collection quality.

We discuss specially created student projects that directly benefit the digital projects unit through improvements to our workflow or technologies. These projects include evaluation of an interface and suggestions for improvements, exploration of technologies for repository video playback, creation of closed-captions, and extension of a DSpace command-line tool to support our workflow.

We also discuss the use of interns, paid student employees, and graduate assistants for metadata entry, online editor tasks, and software maintenance and development. We offer suggestions based on observations of software projects that were completed successfully, and some that were abandoned.

Finally, a former student worker in the library who was later hired on in a full-time position as a software engineer describes his experiences in these differing roles.

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track, 24x7 Presentations

The session was recorded and is <a href="https://connect.funet.fi/p8im84xctjk/">available for watching</a> (this presentation starts at 0:26:04)