Digital Library Jobs – DigitalKoans

Digital Preservation Analyst at Harvard Library

Reporting to the Senior Digital Preservation Specialist and collaborating with Harvard Library units and Library Technology Services, the incumbent will provide support for preservation systems, including the Digital Repository Service (DRS), ePADD, and the hosted Archive-It (AIT) web archiving service. Additional responsibilities include creating and maintaining documentation and training modules; the collection, analysis, and visualization of usage and outcome statistics for these systems; maintenance of the public online web presence for the Digital Preservation team; and collaborative investigation of innovative and emerging technical solutions.

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Publishing and Authorship Librarian at University of Minnesota

The Publishing and Authorship Librarian provides leadership, direction, consultation, and outreach in the areas of copyright, digital scholarship, publishing, and research data management, both within the library and broader UMD campus. This person leads our library’s efforts to promote open scholarship at UMD with collaboration and support from UMD library colleagues and from our Twin Cities University Libraries colleagues.

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Head of Digital Scholarship Services at Binghamton University

The Head of Digital Scholarship Services is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing current and emerging research support services, including, digital scholarship, digital humanities, data management, scholarly communications and digital maker space technologies.

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IT Professional 2 at University of Nevada

The Professional will be part of the Libraries Digital Services Department. Under the direction of the Manager of Digital Services, this position will support two areas: helping users publish their scholarship in the University’s institutional repository and efforts to preserve research data generated on campus using the Libraries’ digital preservation system. This work involves troubleshooting technical issues and applying best practices regarding file formats and metadata, while working closely with faculty and students.

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Instructional Design Librarian at University of Alabama

This position serves a dual role as a librarian participating in multimodal library and information literacy instruction and as an instructional design specialist directly developing content and training liaison librarians who are building instructional design projects.

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User Experience Researcher/Designer at Harvard University

Harvard Library is beginning significant work related to the Reimagining Discovery Project to revolutionize how researchers, students, and the global community access and explore Harvard’s extensive collections. Through this work we want to make all kinds of information easily discoverable and accessible. We intend to center our users in the design of this new unified search.

Reporting to the Head of UX & Digital Accessibility, the UX Researcher/Designer will play a significant role in this project. Building on existing research, the person in this role will engage with users to confirm their needs, preferences, and behaviors for a unified search system. They will conduct user research with multiple audience segments and synthesize findings into recommendations for the product team. Additionally, the person in this role will create wireframes and prototypes as research artifacts that will inform the product development.

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Digital Asset Management System Coordinator at University of Texas Austin

As a part of the Preservation & Digital Stewardship unit, this position provides management and oversight of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and affiliated public-facing discovery interfaces for UT Libraries, including policy and workflow development, training, and metadata support.

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Digital Library Data Engineer at Harvard University

The Library Technology Services (LTS) team at Harvard University is seeking an inquisitive and motivated Data Engineer to join our exciting project to build the the university’s next generation Digital Preservation System. This role will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of data APIs, extract/load/transform (ETL) activities, helping to manage data migration from existing data endpoints to the new systems and defining data integration services for our application portfolio.

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Open Research Coordinator for Data and Software at University of Texas Austin

The Open Research Coordinator will provide research data and software sharing assistance to UT faculty, students, and staff. They will work in coordination with campus partners such as the UT Open Source Program Office and support university researchers through consultation sessions, resource guides, instructional programming, and event coordination. Their work will facilitate researcher use of the Texas Data Repository and ensure that deposited data and code is curated in accordance with FAIR principles to foster research reproducibility.

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Data Visualization and GIS Specialist at Texas State University

The Specialist will serve as the lead for the Research Data Services Department in geospatial visualization services in addition to assisting researchers across disciplines in data analysis and visualization tools, methods, and best practices. Through outreach to faculty, students, and interdisciplinary partners, the Specialist promotes and engages the university community with the Libraries’ data visualization and GIS services.

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Digital Preservation Archivist at Smith College

The Digital Preservation Archivist will hold a leadership position in the implementation of Preservica as Smith College Libraries first enterprise level digital preservation system. Though situated in the SCSC technical service group, the successful candidate will work with all members of the SCSC unit to ensure the long term discoverability and accessibility of unique digital assets. As the program matures, the Digital Preservation Archivist will also work with other collections-based departments on campus — the Smith College Museum of Art and the Smith College Botanic Garden — as well as those in the Five Colleges consortium.

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Open Scholarship Librarian at University of Virginia

Reporting to the Director, Digital Strategies and Scholarly Communication Services, the Open Scholarship Librarian is accountable for developing and implementing a comprehensive, proactive outreach program to University members on open scholarship services, including the institutional repository and Aperio publishing platform, and ensuring all services support the ability of University community members to meet federal grant and other open scholarship policies. Additionally, the Librarian seeks opportunities to expand the reach and use of Libra beyond traditional self-deposited content.

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Library Research Data Manager at University of South Florida

This position has primary responsibility for the USF Libraries Research Data Management program including data curation, consultations regarding data repository use, and deployment of best practices in data management to the USF Libraries and the campus community. The Library RDM supports USF researchers throughout the research data lifecycle to meeting their planning, management, analysis, sharing and archival needs. This may include advising researchers on the use of disciplinary repositories, USF Libraries Digital Commons institutional repository, and other data sharing and preservation platforms to facilitate discovery, reproducibility, and long-term access.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Oklahoma

This position will support faculty and student digital research projects with guidance from the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, ranging from short and long-term consultations (e.g., helping to identify appropriate methods, tools, and training resources) to more intensive, hands-on assistance with technology solutions for digital scholarship. As a supporting role in the Libraries digital scholarship services, this position delivers library instruction, reference services, instructional guides and research aids within the scope of their domain. This role will participate in research technology assessments, answer patron questions, compile data, and represent the Libraries digital scholarship services to internal and external users.

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Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at Imperial College London

You will be responsible for the delivery and advocacy of the Library Services copyright and scholarly licensing service to advise, teach and inform students and research, academic, teaching and administrative staff. You will be a proactive advocate of the service and implement strategies to promote copyright literacy and engage with relevant groups across the university. You will want to actively address inequities in scholarly communications and access to learning and research material.

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Open Science, Research & Engagement Librarian at University of California, Santa Barbara

The Open Science, Research & Engagement Librarian will proactively engage with STEM academic departments (https://www.science.ucsb.edu/programs) assigned based upon expertise as part of the Subject Librarian Program. They will participate in a cross-divisional Library team focused on strategic advances in open science services, instruction, and support. The librarian will be actively involved in service and tool development and promotion of key pieces of open science infrastructure, such as ORCID, DataCite, eScholarship, Research Organization Registry (RoR), and Open Science Framework (OSF). As part of the Research & Engagement team, the librarian will actively identify and assess opportunities on campus. They will be actively involved in shaping the future of the Research & Engagement Department and the Subject Librarian Program, and the innovative transformation of its services to meet the emerging needs of the campus in an ever-evolving research and learning landscape.

https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02739

Digital Archivist at North Carolina Dept of Natural and Cultural Resources

Working in collaboration with other sections and units throughout the division to ensure that records/digital assets being produced on behalf of the State Archives are being created using appropriately identified file formats and preserved based on OAIS (ISO 14721) and ISO 16363 Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Records.

Developing workflows, processes, and procedures regarding ingesting of materials into the digital repository, organization of data bags and digital objects within the repository, inventory management and preservation actions, and reference access. Performing regular inventory, virus scans, and preservation actions on files within the digital repository, creating and maintaining metadata and databases about these materials, and answering reference requests for items stored within the digital repository.

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Digital University Archivist at Des Moines University

Coordinate workflows and digitize physical archives and special collections materials of all types for digital preservation, as well as manage ongoing digitization projects.

Work with the Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences (DMU) campus community in adherence to the records retention policy to identify and transfer both physical and born digital university history items to the archives.

Process and catalog archives and special collections materials, maintaining data and records pertaining to the archives and special collections materials including finding aids, donation records, usage statistics, and holdings within the integrated library system, the archives management system, and the institutional repository.

Responsible for digital archives content in the institutional repository, including developing and maintaining metadata standards and schemas.

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Associate College Librarian & Coordinator for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications at Haverford College

The Associate College Librarian & Coordinator for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications (ACL) oversees a division of 6 FTE with responsibility for the acquisition, description, processing, and management of library collections. . . . The ACL manages the collections budget, generates reports and forecasts, and negotiates licenses for e-resources. The ACL provides vision and leadership for the Libraries’ open access strategies and supports open publishing among Haverford scholars. The ACL administers Haverford’s repository of faculty publications and develops best practices for showcasing faculty scholarship.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at Utah State University

Working with a team of librarians, the Digital Scholarship Librarian provides essential research support, instruction, and services that bolster robust digital research and learning and engagement with evolving technologies across all disciplines. Collaborating with library colleagues and groups across the university, this position will also help develop strategic initiatives and partnerships to promote and utilize the new Innovation Hub (opening fall 2024) including outreach and instruction with emerging research technologies.

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Open Publishing Librarian at Indiana University Bloomington

The Open Publishing Librarian is responsible for the IU Libraries’ Open Access (OA) journal publishing program, which publishes over 50 OA journals, including a number of student journals. This position serves as the primary liaison to editorial teams, conducts training and outreach, and supports the creation of new journals. The Open Publishing Librarian supports new journals with the creation of their journal and instructs them on the use of Open Journal System (OJS) and best practices for journal publishing. This position will work collaboratively with colleagues on other open publishing initiatives in the Libraries Scholarly Communication department and will coordinate and collaborate with Indiana University Press colleagues on journal publishing infrastructure and practices as a part of Indiana Publishing.

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Data Science Facilitator at University of Wisconsin–Madison

More specifically, the Facilitator will consult with researchers on campus to recommend appropriate solutions to data science problems impeding their research, where solution pathways for the researcher will consider resources on campus and beyond, including existing learning resources, data management services, computing resources, consultations and collaboration with data science and computational methods experts, identification and pursuit of funding opportunities, and/or pathways for leveraging effort from campus data science teams and associated faculty. The Facilitator will also design workshops and teach existing trainings to help researchers learn data analysis tools and automation that will make their research more scalable and reproducible.

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Chief, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center

The Chief is a visionary, people-focused leader with broad responsibility for the NAVCC’s overall strategic direction. This includes setting strategic objectives aligning the activities of its curatorial units and business operations to the Library’s strategic plan, as well as guiding outreach initiatives that contribute leadership to audiovisual preservation communities at home and abroad. The Chief leads change by overseeing the strategic evolution of the division’s programs and services, and by partnering to chart its technical direction. . . .

The incumbent is responsible for effective oversight of NAVCC operations through the Assistant Chief, and direct oversight for all aspects of curation and stewardship for its audiovisual materials. The position maintains productive relationships within industry and academic communities to support engaged stewardship of the nation’s audiovisual heritage, including through the work of the two Preservation Boards for Film and Sound Recordings which advise the Librarian of Congress on the National Registries.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/786561600

Instructional Services and Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Alabama in Huntsville

This position works with teaching faculty to develop library instruction materials for assignment-focused, course-specific needs, as well as identify opportunities for outreach in assigned academic departments.. . . This position will also support future scholarly communications endeavors, such as Open Access Initiatives, Open Educational Resources, and scholarly publishing trends, including providing support for faculty and student scholarly communication endeavors, such as promoting the use of open educational resources and awareness of the university’s institutional repository.

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Scholarly Communications and Metadata Librarian at George Washington University

The George Washington University’s Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library seeks a dynamic, collaborative information professional to provide leadership and expertise in scholarly communications, copyright, open access, data management, and research impact. This position also manages Himmelfarb’s cataloging and oversees the organization and management of the library’s catalog and institutional repository.

https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/109746