RUL Scholarly and Professional Activity Committee

Title: Bringing the Work Students Home: The Rutgers University Libraries student worker program goes virtual.
Presenters: Rose Barbalace, Megan Lotts, and Tara Maharjan
Abstract:  Libraries are often said to be a place where the classroom leaves off, and never more has this been truer than when the Rutgers University Libraries-New Brunswick (RUL-NB) agreed to employ 250 virtual student workers during the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. This program was facilitated when the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, while most Rutgers employees were working from home, and when students were living all over the world.  The paper will discuss the program and how it came to fruition, look at three individual supervisory experiences, as well as discuss the importance of this program including impact and missed opportunities.  

Please read our article in College & Research Libraries News- Bringing the federal work study project home...