Category: Digital Library Jobs

Cornell University is recruiting a Web Archiving and Emerging Formats Librarian.

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The Web Archiving and Emerging Formats Librarian monitors and participates in external developments, standards development and changing needs to further CUL's initiatives. The position is expected to collaborate in CUL partnerships, such as 2CUL, and plays an active role in professional organizations inside and outside of the CUL community.

This is a two-year academic-status term position with possibility for renewal.

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UCLA is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

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The UCLA Library seeks a dynamic, energetic, innovative leader to join its Scholarly Communication and Licensing (SCL) team as UCLA's Scholarly Communication Librarian. Reporting to the Head of SCL, the successful candidate will lead efforts to design systematic and sustainable approaches to outreach, and design new services that support the broadest possible dissemination of scholarly output. The Scholarly Communication Librarian will work closely with faculty, researchers, students, staff, and librarians to assist in scholarly communication endeavors initiated by the Library and to that end, will develop educational materials and instructional sessions and programs. The Scholarly Communication Librarian will liaise with campus partners on the development of targeted outreach and programs that promote scholarly communication, open access, and develop open education strategies to further the campus mission of research, teaching, and public service.

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The University of North Texas is recruiting a Digital Projects Lab Manager.

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The Digital Projects Lab Manager is responsible for the general operation of the Digital Projects Lab and works to complete internally- and externally- funded digitization projects in a cost effective manner with high-quality output. The librarian will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to plan, coordinate, and execute digitization and other digital projects as part of the mission of the UNT Libraries.

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Cornell University is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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(RMC), the Digital Archivist provides oversight and management of RMC's digital collections, with a particular focus on born-digital materials. The Digital Archivist will take the lead on developing and documenting workflows for accessioning, stabilizing, arranging, and describing born-digital collections. The Digital Archivist will work closely with colleagues in RMC and other Cornell University Library (CUL) units, in particular Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) and CUL-IT, to ensure coordination and communication around issues of shared interest.

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The University of Cincinnati is recruiting a Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing Strategist.

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The Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing Strategist develops, coordinates, and oversees the growth of scholarly communications and publishing programs and services at UC, including: providing outreach, knowledge and support to faculty, students, and staff about copyright, licensing, and scholarly publishing, and about the dissemination and preservation of the scholarly, historical, and cultural record. The position will also participate in the development of university policies regarding access to scholarly work, including copyright and intellectual property issues, fair use, authors' rights, privacy rights, open access, and other information policy issues within the libraries and university.

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The Computer History Museum is recruiting an AV & Digital Processing Archivist.

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The AV & Digital Processing Archivist has primary responsibility for the Museum's moving and still image, and audio collections. The Archivist will also actively process the Museum's digital collection. Tasks include processing audiovisual (AV) materials, new digital object donations, and the Museum's in-house media productions.

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Indiana University is recruiting a Head of Digital Media Software Development.

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Directly manages a team of programmer/analysts working in collaboration with developers at Northwestern University and other partner institutions to create the Avalon Media System; and plays a software architect, high-level technical design, and project management role on other projects as needed.

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The University of Virginia is recruiting a Software Engineer for Scholarly Works.

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The employee in this position analyzes requirements, evaluates solutions and primarily designs and develops software systems to support description, ingest, annotation and access tools (search, exhibit, programmatic access).

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The Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Digital Content Metadata Librarian.

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The Johns Hopkins Libraries and University Museums invite applications for the Digital Content Metadata Librarian position. The position provides leadership and expertise in developing creative, collaborative, and sustainable solutions for providing and managing metadata for locally hosted digital resources.

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The California Polytechnic State University is recruiting an Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian.

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Cal Poly's ACRL award-winning Kennedy Library is seeking an enthusiastic, collaborative, and innovative individual for a unique tenure track library faculty position, leading and coordinating library programs in open education, open content, and digital publishing. As a member of the library faculty they will contribute to instruction, outreach, and other programs that help students acquire and practice critical digital literacies. As the library's digital publishing coordinator they will support students and faculty in using digital platforms for publishing and sharing their work. They will also contribute to supporting the library's role in maker programs and in supporting digital media creation.

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The University of Houston is recruiting a Coordinator of Research Support Services.

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The Coordinator of Research Support Services will collaborate with subject liaison librarians and branch library representatives to develop, implement, and assess research support services for faculty, graduate students, and campus research centers and institutes. The Coordinator is expected to develop and sustain the UH Libraries' relationships with key campus units, including the Division of Research, and to seek out new opportunities for the Libraries to advance the University's research mission. The Coordinator will also work closely with the Digital Repository Services Department and other library units to develop and provide research-related services such as data management support and instruction.

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The Library of Congress is recruiting a Digital Conversion Specialist.

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The incumbent provides analysis, reporting, planning, overall coordination, and oversight activities for the American Archive Project, comprised initially of 40.000 hours of digitized audio and video content received from public broadcasting stations to be supported for preservation and access. Individually and in collaboration with MBRS stakeholders, staff from the Library's Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) and Information Technology Services (ITS), and other American Archive Project staff, the incumbent assists with program components that include the design, implementation, and evaluation of the project, the review of metadata and related policies and procedures, the development of strategies for metadata capture. normalization, transformation, storage, and output, models for information access and delivery, and oversees the accessioning of digital files received from project vendor(s).

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Texas A&M University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian—Copyright/Fair Use.

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The Copyright/Fair Use Librarian is responsible for maintaining awareness of national and international developments in copyright and intellectual property, digital scholarship, and library publishing, in order to apply this knowledge to projects at Texas A&M, and to serve as a general resource of knowledge for Texas A&M University and its affiliates. This includes providing consultation services, training, and participating on Texas A&M University committees as needed.

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Texas A&M University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian—Digital Repositories.

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The Digital Repositories Librarian is responsible for leading the development and implementation of new digital repository services and associated technical infrastructure using emerging digital repository technologies in support of library and campus digital collections and publishing initiatives; working with other library staff to develop and implement metadata and preservation standards to enhance access, discovery and preservation of the university's intellectual output; and facilitating the development of workflows that accommodate new scholarly communication initiatives.

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The University of Tennessee Knoxville is recruiting an IT Analyst III.

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In consultation with librarians and other library and university programmers, systems administrators, vendors, and end-users, responsibilities of this position include the customization and enhancement of a wide variety of digital library applications and systems that support digital preservation, digital asset management, and end-user discovery and access.

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Idaho State University is recruiting a Digital Initiative Librarian.

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Supports digital scholarship initiatives including: providing assistance in the digitization of special collections, managing existing digital library services, and informing the creation of new digital services. Reporting to the Head of Collection Management, the Digital Initiatives Librarian works with staff and faculty throughout the library to provide innovative digital library services.

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The University of British Columbia is recruiting a Digital Repository Librarian .

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The Digital Repository Librarian is responsible for developing, supporting, and assessing recruitment activities as well as managing the content in cIRcle, UBC's open access digital repository. The role is also responsible for managing the repository software and technical system administration of the cIRcle database; managing the development and implementation of content policies and procedures; ensuring copyright compliance of repository content; and undertaking promotion of cIRcle and open access.

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Emerson College is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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The Digital Initiatives Librarian works with the Executive Director of the Library to implement and maintain digital initiatives including: digital archives/repositories, digitization of analog records and digital curation. Coordinates with Head of Archives and Special Collections on digital preservation. As part of these initiatives, the DI Librarian is required to liaise with Library and IT staff, external vendors, and consortia. Core responsibilities will include identifying digitization projects, organizing teams to develop workflows, and liaising with stakeholders.

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Harvard University is recruiting a Metadata Technologies Program Manager.

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As a member of the Information & Technical Services department management team, under the supervision of the Head of Metadata Management, the Metadata Technologies Program Manager will lead and collaborate with colleagues to develop a diverse metadata program focusing on incorporating emerging technologies, such as linked data, and experimenting with innovative approaches to creating discovery metadata. . . . Not solely a metadata technologist, the incumbent would also serve as a metadata consultant for the broader Harvard community, including performing outreach and advocacy to academic or administrative departments as appropriate for developing collaborations across campus (e.g. HarvardX or other high-profile initiatives where digital assets are being created from legacy collections in the libraries, museums or archives).

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Harvard University is recruiting a Library Technology Architect.

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Reporting to the Managing Director of Library Technology Services (LTS), Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) seeks a Library Technology Architect. This new role will be a member of a high performing leadership team which focuses on the development of powerful solutions to advance scholarship and teaching through the collection, creation, application, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge. LTS works in deep collaboration with the Harvard Library (HL), one of the premier research libraries in the world, as well as with HUIT's Academic Technology team to ensure that library materials and services are effectively embedded into the academic enterprise. The Library Technology Architect will also work in close collaboration with digital library software engineers and systems librarians on specific library technology projects which will support the Harvard Library strategic objectives.

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Harvard University is recruiting a Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations.

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The Harvard Library seeks an innovative professional to lead the development of digital strategies and their implementation in Harvard's large and diverse library environment. Known for decades as a leader in digital library initiatives, Harvard Library today is building on this foundation to extend its reach in visualization, data management, and creative uses of technology throughout its enterprise. The Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations will lead in the formulation of library digital strategies, ensuring that the Library has a scalable and sustainable infrastructure; a user-friendly and effective web presence; and an environment which maximizes creative applications for the benefit of scholarship and learning. Working with talented colleagues throughout Harvard's libraries and Harvard University Information Technology, the Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations will identify and evaluate trends in IT and digital library development that are applicable to Harvard.

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Georgia State University is recruiting a Team Leader, Digital Research Services.

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The team leader will facilitate librarian support of interdisciplinary data services (involving quantitative, qualitative, business, and spatial/GIS data) and digital scholarship projects in collaboration with faculty, staff, and students from across the university. The Team Leader also serves as the subject librarian for one or more academic departments. Georgia State University librarians hold faculty rank and are expected to engage in service and scholarly activities.

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The University of Miami, is recruiting a Digital Architect and Infrastructure Librarian.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and working within a growing digital strategies team, the Digital Infrastructure Librarian, a newly defined position in the UM Libraries, will manage the current systems and technical workflows that support the digital library infrastructure. The UM Libraries are undertaking a review of our current infrastructure (principally made up of CONTENTdm, Digital Commons, Archon, Omeka, Kaltura, and homegrown web exhibits). This position will play a critical role in leading the evaluation, as well as the work to design and implement systems and workflows that will better serve our users and allow us to better leverage and support emerging technologies and standards.

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Carnegie Hall is recruiting a Digital Asset Manager.

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We seek a Digital Asset Manager to manage the day-to-day timeline and establish a continued framework for Carnegie Hall's Digital Archives Project, a comprehensive initiative begun in 2012 to digitize extensive paper and audio-visual holdings documenting the Hall's close to 125-year history, ensuring that they are preserved for future generations and made increasingly accessible to the public. Manage vendor relationships, perform quality control on results of digitization work, and monitor project outcomes. Serve as Archives point person in coordinating plans to create digital repository designed to house both the Hall's legacy collections as well as newly-created digital content.

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