The American Geographical Society Library
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Job Description:
The American Geographical Society Library seeks a student intern to assist with GIS and spatial data services. The incumbent will join a collaborative team of student interns and a full-time Geospatial Information Specialist. Those with strengths in Web GIS are strongly encouraged to apply.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Fulfilling digital data, image, and printing requests and performing reference interviews with students, researchers, and public patrons
- Developing learning materials related to discovering, processing, mapping, and analyzing spatial data and the AGSL collections
- Performing high-quality scans and image processing of historic paper maps
- Performing general library tasks
Required Qualifications:
- Enrolled as a student
- An interest in geography and geospatial technology
- Ability to perform routine desktop GIS tasks
- Ability to perform routine tasks on a Windows PC, Microsoft Office, Office365
- Ability to complete detailed work with a high degree of consistency and accuracy
- Respectfully and effectively work with our diverse community of patrons and staff
- Ability to solve problems independently as well as collaboratively
- Ability and interest in learning to use unfamiliar tools, software, and equipment
- Position subject to UWM Libraries criminal background check
Preferred Qualifications:
- Graduate student or advanced undergraduate studying GIS (in any discipline), geography, or library/information science
- Advanced knowledge of ArcGIS software
- Experience with web development
- Experience in developing interactive web-based mapping applications
- Experience with Adobe Photoshop
- Experience searching for and using geospatial data
- Experience with programming/development; knowledge of programing/scripting languages
- Proficiency in language(s) other than English
Additional Information:
10-20 hours per week during the Spring and Fall semesters, and 20-40 hours per week during the summer of 2017. Student assistants work a fixed schedule each week. That schedule is flexible, but must be contained within the AGSL’s open hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm. The ideal candidate will be available for the remainder of the spring 2017 semester.
To Apply:
Please send your resume as a PDF attachment and a brief statement of interest (200-400 words) in the body of an e-mail to: Stephen Appel (srappel@uwm.edu) by April 15th, 2017.