Description: This presentation reimagines the role of graduate student labor in complex, library-wide digital scholarship projects by defining a new model of librarian/graduate student partnership. Through our work on a community oral history project at a public, urban university, we offer structures, workflows, and values that lead to a successful digital collection and exhibit and more importantly, meaningful work for residential and remote graduate student employees. Find out how librarians can adopt a mentor/mentee relationship to work side-by-side with graduate student workers on library-wide projects that allow graduate students to take ownership of tasks and gain relevant work experience.

Presenters: 

Erika Bailey - Urban Studies, History, and Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Washington Tacoma

Erika Bailey is the Urban Studies, History, and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Washington Tacoma Library, where she works with faculty and students across disciplines on digital projects and collections. She is the co-facilitator of the Digital Scholarship Collective, which aims to advance creativity and inquiry around digital scholarship across the University of Washington’s three campuses. She is interested in how we work together, and her scholarship explores labor in libraries, student agency, and privacy in digital pedagogy. 

Courtney Nomiyama - Humanities Librarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Courtney Nomiyama is a Humanities Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Previously, she worked at a community college library, a high school library, and state government. Her interests include digital humanities and digital scholarship. She holds a MLIS from the University of Washington and a BA in History and Asian Studies from St. Olaf College. Courtney is also a proud 2019 ALA Spectrum Scholar.

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