The AUL Leadership Fellows Program aims to support the Auburn university's mission by actively promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the libraries. This distinctive project recognizes the underrepresented students dire need of a mentor and opportunities for them to belong and gain practical, applicable experience in an academic setting.
The AUL faculty/staff will mentor the chosen Fellows with a special project. The Fellows will learn self-discipline, smart/ hard work, critical thinking, time management, teamwork, and leadership skills. The Fellow will be placed under a program at the Libraries, gaining direct experience with a special project by assisting their mentors.
Education, building self-confidence, and good working habits that concentrate on achieving a fulfilling career is the focus of this program. Students will be involved in projects that promote leadership and decision-making skills, teamwork, planning and timely executing skills and critical thinking skills that will promote self-confidence.
The Fellow will also be exposed with valuable information on how the library's service is an integral part of Auburn university and the unique ways one can make a difference working for it. The selected students will be exposed to the field of library and information science and introduced to a variety of other possibilities in libraries or other information organizations. Interested students will be guided with crucial resources to succeed in their career in becoming a librarian.
A student advisor will coordinate the project and be the point of contact. They will provide individual commitment and establish a personal connection with these selected students for them to succeed academically and professionally. Out of the total hours for a given semester the student advisor will be a backup in any case of the mentor's unavailability.
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One-academic semester program with the option to extend
AU SC&A oversees several exhibit spaces, both within the SC&A area andwithin RBD Library. These spaces are used to highlight collections held within the department and their relation to Auburn University, it’s mission, and the Auburn Family. Exhibits are designed to stay up for one semester. The effort of creating exhibits with SC&A involves researching focused topics, selecting materials to present a cohesive and engaging experience, and writing texts to accompany the materials in the exhibit. Outreach on exhibits is another area of work in exhibit planning that involves coordination with communications personnel and media. The undergraduate student selected for this project will select, design, and build two exhibits for AU Libraries.
During fall semester, they will create an exhibit for spring semester in Special Collections. In Spring semester, they will build upon their first semesters experience tocreate an exhibit for the large 1st Floor exhibit space (for the Summer and Fall Semesters).
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The Innovation and Research Commons (I&RC), located on the first floor of the RBD Library, features a visualization tool called the Liquid Galaxy. The Liquid Galaxy is a unique, large multimedia platform for graphics, web pages, panoramic images, video, audio, geospatial data, Google Street views, Unity gaming content, and more in a shared immersive environment. The primary purpose of this visualization tool is to offer an immersive experience in teaching and learning by way of in-person classes. Secondarily, the Libraries use it to feature student projects, promote resources for research and education, and work with researchers and educators to visualize data and information. Creating content for the Liquid Galaxy often involves preparing media items using creativity software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. Other tools include geospatial applications and video and audio editing applications. Content is then uploaded and organized using a proprietary content management system (CMS). The undergraduate student selected for this project will work closely with I&RC staff to develop and prepare content items and post them to the CMS. The student will learn established workflows for processing various content. This position will require on-the-job training.
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The mission of the Auburn University Foundation is to generate increased philanthropic support for Auburn University. Directors, Officers and Coordinators within the Office of Development encourage and solicit private gifts that develop, support, and enhance Auburn’s educational interests and programs. The office of Development also works to engage and steward stakeholders: alumni, family, friends, donors, faculty, staff, and students. The undergraduate student selected for this project will manage a portfolio of projects, based on the needs of the Library's needs and the unique skills, and interests the student. Examples of projects include expanding our stewardship programs, by reaching out directly to current donors and provide updates on the Library. Making stewardship calls (donor birthdays and first gift anniversaries) and sending out Library information packets engaging the student population who uses the Library and collect stories to share with stakeholders and use for our marketing and communication purposes; supporting donor reports; logistical planning for meetings and events; connecting with audiences on and off campus (organizations, businesses, individuals) who may be interested in supporting Library's efforts.
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