Start Date: May 9, 2016

End Date: December 31, 2016

Pay Rate: $14.05, Up to Full-time (Up to 40 hours per week) Full time Co-op rotation desired; 40 hours/week, May – December 2016. (We will consider student who can work full time during the summer & part time in fall. Summer-only will be considered on a case-by-case basis.)

Location: Iowa Department of Transportation Office, Iowa DOT Library, Ames, Iowa

Description: The Iowa DOT Library would like to host a COOP student who is interested in:

• Learning more about managing research data sets;
• Assisting the Iowa DOT Library in making research datasets and publications available to the public;
• Learning how the application of complete metadata enables dataset findability and usability for third parties;
• Learning more about various metadata standards and their use in data discovery;
• Gaining hands-on experience with data management and data curation software tools;
• Adding metadata to digitized documents to be ingested into our digital repository;
• Learning about open access publications and data management plans as they apply to federally funded research outputs;
• Working with the Iowa DOT Library, Office of Research & Analytics, and contracted researchers;
• Developing general and special library service skills.The student will also gain valuable career skills, including metadata standards, metadata entry, software tools, project management, digitization, open access, data management, data management planning, bibliographic cataloging, & general library operations.

The ideal candidate will have most or many of these qualities or skills:

• Be able to work at the Iowa DOT up to fulltime from May to December. (Full-time is preferred, but a part-time position may be negotiated.);
• Have some metadata or data entry experience or course work, or the desire to obtain that experience;
• Have experience or interest in data management and data management planning;
• Have interest or experience in open access for publications and data sets;
• Have some Library Science, or Data Management knowledge or course work;
• Be interested in data preservation and/or curation;
• Have basic office productivity skills and the ability to learn new software applications quickly;
• Be able to work well independently.

Some possible fields of study:

• Requirements: The position is only available to college students whose course of study relates to the position duties. In your cover letter, please explain specifically how this position relates to you field of study.
• Data curation;
• Data management;
• Library and Information Science;
• Digital preservation;
• Computer science

Application Deadline: February 29, 2016

Please contact the Iowa DOT Library if you have questions. 515-239-1200 or dot.library@dot.iowa.gov