Graduate Research Assistant Positions

The Ask a Librarian graduate research assistant (GRA) provides frontline service at the Perry-Castañeda Library—the University of Texas at Austin's flagship research library, serving both the campus community and the greater public—and through the Libraries' online Ask a Librarian service.

The LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections User Services graduate research assistant (GRA) provides reference service to researchers and patrons of the Benson Latin American Collection in-person and via email in English and Spanish (and Portuguese if it is known). They also staff the rare books reading room service point and assist researchers in registering and using rare and archival materials. This position will also assist librarians and archivists at the Benson with special projects such as collection development, archival processing, metadata creation, digital projects and exhibition work. The Benson is a global destination for research and study, with over a million volumes in the collection as well as a wealth of original manuscripts, photographs and various media related to Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Latina/Latino presence in the United States.

This is a high-impact, research-forward role for a graduate student ready to build real systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence, library automation, and information science. The Library Automation and AI Systems GRA will work directly with the Automation and Integration Librarian to design, develop, and deploy AI-assisted tools and workflows that are transforming how the University of Texas Libraries catalogs, manages, and provides access to its collections.

This is not a traditional GRA role. You will write production code, contribute to peer-reviewed research, present at conferences, and build tools used by real staff processing hundreds of thousands of library items. If you want to do meaningful work at the frontier of AI and library systems, this is the role.