Welcome to the NASIG 2026 Conference. The conference will take place at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial. Union on June 2-4, 2026. Check out the Venue Map link below to locate conference spaces. The Registration Desk is on the 2nd floor by the Annex Room. Wifi logon instructions are available here. Note: If you are registered with eduroam at your home institution you can connect to wifi using eduroam.
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Student workers are an invaluable resource for libraries in all areas of service. They often provide support for circulation, public, and reference services, and given the opportunity, they can also provide essential support for technical services. The University of San Diego Copley Library has a rich history of employing undergraduate student workers as part of the library’s Federal Work/Study (FWS) Program. The Technical Services department, in particular, employs the second largest group of student workers at Copley Library. Technical Services student workers were originally hired to support the library’s print collection by processing and shelving print materials, assisting with authority control, repairing books, and other light tasks as needed. However, as print acquisitions declined, so did the number of required student tasks and student worker positions in Technical Services. Today, Copley Library’s Technical Services employs four student workers, and our department struggles with assigning regular and appropriate tasks for the students. Following several discussions about continuing to hire FWS students in Technical Services, our department decided to take a new approach to our student workers. Over the course of a year, we began to actively integrate our student workers into e-resources projects by creating and adapting assignments based on their skills and interests. Our student workers have helped lay the groundwork for a number of project areas in Technical Services, including accessibility, AI awareness, instruction outreach, and ILS migration clean-up. This presentation will discuss managing student workers in Technical Services and adapting student work for e-resource workflows and highlight several projects that benefited from student involvement, including:
an accessibility audit of library databases, identification of AI features in library databases, student feedback on catalog tutorials, post-Alma ILS migration clean-up, and new social media outreach efforts.
