Category: Digital Library Jobs

Wheaton College is recruiting a Director of Scholarly Information Resources.

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This position supports teaching and learning by managing services focused around the identification, acquisition, creation, curation, and publication of scholarly information resources. The successful candidate will have a firm grasp of current scholarly information available via print or e-publishing options while also focusing on new models of discovery, creation, curation, and access beyond ownership, including digitization, open access research, digital humanities archives, institutional repositories, institutional publishing, data mining initiatives, open educational resources (OERs), and consortial collaborations. This position works closely with faculty to encourage the use of traditional and evolving scholarly information resources.

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Binghamton University is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

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The Digital Projects Librarian will manage digitization projects for the Libraries, upload items into the digital preservation system (currently Rosetta by Ex Libris), manage workflows and conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display via the Libraries' discovery layer (Primo by Ex Libris). The incumbent will also collaborate with library staff to create digital exhibits. This is a new position within the Binghamton University Libraries, which include the Glenn G. Bartle and Science Libraries, the Library Annex@Conklin, and the University Downtown Center Library and Information Commons in the College of Community and Public Affairs.

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Duquesne University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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This non-tenured faculty position will report initially to the Director of Information Services. This is a newly created position, and the reporting line is subject to change as the position and organization develop. The Digital Scholarship Librarian incorporates support for digital scholarship into the library's program of services that support teaching, learning and research. Manages the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation filing process. Facilitates the use of library content for digital scholarship creation by faculty and students; serves as a resource on digital scholarship for other librarians; and keeps abreast of innovations in scholarly communication. Works collaboratively to develop the library's digital resources. Represents the library in campus discussions of implementing an institutional repository.

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Emory University is recruiting a Core Systems DLP Project Manager.

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Reporting to the Director of Library Core Systems, and in close collaboration with the Digital Library Program Coordinator, the Library Software Engineering Team, and Central IT resources, the Digital Program Project Manager will provide technical leadership and assist in product development during the implementation of the Hydra Repository Framework, transition of the framework into an operationalized service, and will assume responsibility for the operational support of the DLP applications and infrastructure.

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The Oregon Historical Society is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The Oregon Historical Society is seeking a creative, energetic, and technically savvy Digital Archivist to develop and maintain the OHS Digital Vault, the institution's new digital repository. The archivist will join a team committed to collaboration, public service, and stewardship of the extensive and diverse historical collections in the OHS Davies Family Research Library.

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The University of Michigan is recruiting a Programmer .

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking an electronic publishing programmer to design, build, and maintain web sites, systems, services, and applications in support of new models in academic publishing. The ideal candidate will possess a strong knowledge of and demonstrate experience with object- oriented programming languages, web frameworks, and current best practices in code design and web technologies.

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North Carolina State University is recruiting a Visualization and Digital Media Librarian.

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The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Visualization and Digital Media Librarian in the Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) department. Recognizing the power of visualization to ask and answer novel questions, spark new insights, enable greater understanding, and communicate powerful ideas, the NCSU Libraries offers advanced visualization spaces, services, and technologies that support university research and teaching in all disciplines. Our state-of-the-art facilities and computing infrastructure invite scholars to engage with research data using advanced visualization software, to examine and compare high-resolution digital content, and to immerse themselves in simulations and virtual environments. This position reports to the Director of Visualization Services.

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The University of California, San Francisco is recruiting an Industry Documents Digital Manager.

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The Industry Documents Digital Manager develops, supports, and maintains industry document collections that are freely available to anyone around the globe. The first and largest is the Legacy Tobacco Industry Documents followed by others including drug industry and food. The digital archives of documents were produced by the respective companies and serves as the foundation for databases to foster research that advances public health. Reporting to the University Librarian, the Industry Documents Digital Manager is responsible for the maintenance and expansion of these digital libraries, designing effective systems to ingest and manage documents and promotion and training of the collections. The individual may also design and carryout research using industry documents; work with federal and state legal offices to develop and monitor enforcement with legal remedies; and participate in grant writing and grants.

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DataCite is recruiting a Community Engagement and Support Officer for THOR Project.

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The Community Engagement and Support Officer will head communication, outreach, and training efforts for DataCite activities related to the THOR project. The successful candidate will work with a diverse community of researchers, libraries, data centres, publishers and research funders to promote the uptake of PIDs for data sharing and citation. This will be achieved by providing multi-­faceted outreach and training opportunities for a diverse community of users. Specific activities include:

1. engage with a dynamic community of thought leaders to guide and work collaboratively with ORCID to deliver THOR's communication plan in this rapidly changing data driven research environment;
2. create effective and compelling outreach and training materials for THOR partners, the diverse DataCite community, and the broader community of stakeholders; and
3. plan and deliver webinars, workshops and events designed to inform and educate the diverse network of stakeholders relevant to THOR and DataCite.

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DataCite is recruiting a Technical Architect for THOR Project.

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The Technical Architect will work collaboratively to lead Datacite's technical contributions to the THOR project. This includes a focus on the overarching goals of the project to:

• establish interoperability between community platforms, new Open Science services and DataCite. This will include work on the harmonization of persistent identifier (PID) data models for diverse data and content types, contributor platforms, and organizations.
• work with THOR project partners and the broader DataCite community on the integration of new PID based services across organizations and disciplines. Such services will support the creation and capture of PIDs related to contributors, data and content, organizations and shall be integrated into data management processes, and repository and publisher submission workflows.

Success in fulfilling these goals requires an understanding of the relationships between various identifier schemes, data sources and schemas, and conceptual models combined with the implementation of THOR's technical components to cross-link identifiers and workflows.

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The Internet Archive is recruiting a Wayback Machine Senior Engineer.

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We are looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to help develop the next version of the Wayback Machine. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to work collaboratively with a small internal team and a large, vocal and active user community; demonstrating independence, creativity, initiative and technological savvy, in addition to being a great programmer/architect.

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New York University is recruiting a Manager, Digital Studio.

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In consultation with the Head of the Digital Studio and in collaboration with the Manager of ATS Instructional Media & Technology, the Manager, Digital Studio will manage and oversee the planning, development, operations, and technical services in support of the University-wide educational and research activities of the Digital Studio. Provide client service, technical knowledge, technical development, and communications expertise in support of state-of-the-art computer technology used by faculty, researchers, and staff for teaching and research. Advise and consult with faculty and researchers in the design, development, and implementation of information technology services for teaching and research. Develop and deliver training programs including conducting seminars, training sessions, and workshops. Help support scholarly computing, in particular digital humanities, in collaboration with Digital Scholarship Services and Data Services.

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The University of Miami is recruiting a Digital Humanities Librarian.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and working within a growing digital strategies team, the Digital Humanities Librarian will develop a set of services to support the evolving digital humanities research and pedagogy on the University of Miami campus. The Digital Humanities Librarian will work with colleagues in the UM Libraries, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), and the nascent digital humanities research program, among others, to identify and foster adoption of digital tools and resources that serve to advance scholarly work and teaching in the humanities and arts. The successful candidate will collaborate with faculty and students on digital humanities research and projects, and will serve as a resource for subject librarians and special collections curators involved with such projects. The successful candidate will serve as a liaison for the Center for the Humanities, and will have a firm grounding in research methodologies in humanities disciplines.

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Texas Tech University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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The successful candidate will work with faculty, staff, and students to convey an understanding of the changing modes of scholarly communication, open access and copyright issues, and scholarly publishing. This tenure-track position reports directly to the Associate Dean of Libraries for Outreach and Information Services.

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New York Public Library is recruiting an Assistant Manager, Digitization Services.

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The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Assistant Manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with the world through digitization. The Assistant Manager will help oversee the preservation-grade photography and reformatting of The New York Public Library's rare and unique holdings. The Assistant Manager will also work with the Digitization Services Manager and Head Photographer to initiate a range of new digitization streams with the goal of dramatically increasing the volume, speed, and range of NYPL's imaging activities with new equipment and experiments with new approaches. A key member of the DIU leadership team, this is a perfect opportunity for an enthusiastic, problem-solving individual interested in the full digitization lifecycle, from metadata and conservation to registrarial movements and preservation-quality imaging.

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The University of Waterloo is recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives.

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Within the context of a rapidly evolving print and digital environment, the incumbent leads the creation and articulation of an evolving digital initiatives services and systems portfolio in alignment with the Library mission and Library strategic directions with ongoing input from throughout the Library and key stakeholders across campus. The Head, Digital Initiatives reports to the Associate University Librarian, Research & Digital Discovery Services.

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The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Systems Archivist.

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Shares knowledge and experience in software development to advance the efficiency and functionality of Briscoe Center digital information services. Familiarity with the Open Archive Information System standard and its trending implementations (Fedora/Islandora, Fedora/Hydra). Provides recommendations and support for migration from legacy data systems to DAMS and Archival collection Management System (ArchivesSpace, ICA-AtoM). Recommends methods for and assists in the implementation of linked open data/semantic web principles and methods of implementation (RDF). Applies strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to complex applications. Applies knowledge of scripting languages and unix development environment to create custom programmatic solutions to messy data problems. Applies experience using software version control system to contribute to institutional documentation and versioning practices.

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Xavier University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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The librarian in this key position is a primary planner and coordinator for library digital initiatives, including emergent technologies. Leads a team approach in furthering library efforts with Digital Humanities. Coordinates the library's instance of Digital Commons, our Institutional Repository. Manages a planned technology-intensive library Makerspace.

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Kansas State University is recruiting two Digital Scholarship Librarians.

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K-State Libraries invite applications and nominations for two Digital Scholarship Librarians. To support the university's goal of becoming a top-50 public research university by 2025, these positions will work collaboratively to grow the center's publishing, copyright, and data services; support the institutional repository, K-State Research Exchange (K-Rex), and online publishing imprint, New Prairie Press (NPP); engage campus content providers; and provide education and guidance on digital scholarship. These are forward-thinking, innovative roles for individuals with a desire to excel in a range of cutting-edge digital scholarship initiatives, including building and managing born-digital or digitized content; advocating for open access (OA); and identifying opportunities to support the research and publication lifecycle. We are seeking individuals with knowledge of contemporary digital library standards for all formats.

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The Memorial University of Newfoundland is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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Memorial University is seeking an energetic and resourceful librarian to provide leadership in developing, managing and promoting the Libraries' scholarly communications and copyright initiatives.

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CUNY is recruiting a University Systems Librarian, Digital Initiatives.

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The Office seeks a University Systems Librarian specializing in Digital Initiatives to provide technical expertise and guidance for CUNY's cloud-based Institutional Repository, digital collections and shared responsibility for CUNY's discovery service.

Reporting to the University Director of Library Systems, the Digital Initiatives Librarian will focus on data, platform, and workflow integration and interoperability, metadata extraction, transformation, and reuse, analytics and reporting, search strategies and services, and problem diagnosis and resolution.

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Southern Methodist University is recruiting a Librarian 1 (Digital Production).

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The Digital Production Librarian (a Librarian 1 position) supports the primary mission of the Norwick Center for Digital Services—the digitizing, annotating and presentation via the web of items from CUL special collections. Working with the Digital Collections developer as well as staff, student workers, curators, stakeholders, and partners, the Digital Production Librarian will play a prominent role in metadata creation, digitization, digital collections management, and digital archiving so that digital projects are completed in a timely manner.

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Cornell University is recruiting a Director of Copyright Services.

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We are seeking a Director of Copyright Services who will lead a program of assistance,consultancy, training, and advocacy to promote effective sharing and use of scholarly resources, including issues such as fair use, open access, author's rights, and Creative Commons licensing. The target audience for this program is the broad Cornell community, including faculty, staff, and students. The position will be reporting to the Associate University Librarian for collections, digital scholarship, and preservation services. The incumbent will collaborate with a range of constituencies, including liaison librarians, selectors, and acquisition staff in understanding service and policy development needs in the program area and serve as liaison to the Office of University Counsel on legal-related issues. This position is expected to be 50% to 75% of full-time equivalent.

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Harvard University is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer.

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This is a fully benefited, full-time Harvard University position that has been funded through June 2016. There is the possibility of renewal, contingent on funding, university priorities and satisfactory job performance. . . .

LTS is seeking a creative java software engineer to enhance our digital repository to support new content types, such as vector drawings, word processing files, 3D objects and raw camera image formats. In close collaboration with Harvard Library digital preservation staff and as part of an agile development team, the software engineer will design, implement, test, and deploy software enabling content deposit, preservation, management and presentation, opening Harvard's diverse collections to researchers, teachers and learners now and in the future.

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The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer.

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Provide software development in support of digital curation activities at the University of Texas Libraries.

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