SLIS Student Assistantships

SLIS students admitted for the MLIS or MARA degrees are eligible each semester for a variety of paid student assistantships that involve working with faculty on different projects. Some examples of projects and tasks that student assistants have worked on are:

• Research and writing/reporting in specific areas of study
• Designing and running social networking software (a MySpace for SLIS)
• Second Life — building faculty offices; building learning spaces that connect to the Web; building and managing a recruitment center for SLIS; supporting faculty in Second Life by handling the technology infrastructure during classes
• Supporting the internship coordinator by contacting internship sites, updating listings, proofreading and editing, de-bugging new database implementation
• Conducting research on booktalking and controversial fiction
• Supporting research on making Collaborate discussions available in real time to hearing-impaired students. The project uses Dragon Naturally Speaking.
• Manuscript editing, bibliographic research, researching selective best practices, literature reviews
• Working as a student peer trainer in Collaborate
• Supporting faculty in Collaborate by handling the technology during classes
• Interviewing students and alumni and writing Meet stories for SLISweb
• Providing administrative, graphic design, and other support for SLIS outreach
• Researching and compiling up-to-date lists of scholarships and grants for SLISweb
• Working with the SLIS Web Technologist

When available, student assistantship openings will be posted via the SLISAlert notification system.

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