The report looks closely at how six American colleges and universities recruit, choose, train, incentivize, deploy, evaluate and retain their student workers. The colleges profiled are: Rutgers University, the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, the University of North Dakota, Northland College, the University of Northern Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The report was written by Johanna Boyle, a former newspaper reporter, current New Jersey public librarian, and MLIS graduate of the library science school of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The study is based on detailed interviews with librarians who lead their institution's efforts to train and deploy student workers.