Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of Houston is recruiting a Coordinator of Digital Projects.

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The Coordinator of Digital Projects reports to the Head of Special Collections. Primary responsibilities include managing the internal workflow for the department's digital library projects and supervising assigned personnel. The Coordinator leads departmental efforts, in collaboration with other UH Libraries departments to preserve, process, and provide access to audiovisual and digital materials, including born-digital materials. The Coordinator also serves as Special Collections Department liaison to the Metadata & Digitization Services, Digital Repository Services, and Web Services departments.

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The University of North Texas is recruiting a Deputy Director of Scholarly Communications.

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The Deputy Director of Scholarly Communications is a member of the UNT Libraries Scholarly Communications Unit within the Public Services Division. The librarian is responsible for completing general duties related to open access, data management, and ancillary matters associated with scholarly communications. This librarian works with other members of the library to engage and educate the UNT community about open access and data management quandaries that arise. The librarian also collaborates with the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Design (CLEAR), faculty, students, university administration, and other UNT stakeholders regarding scholarly communications issues. This librarian exercises broad independent judgment and authority under the direction of the Director of Scholarly Communications.

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Lafayette College is recruiting a Digital Library Interface Developer.

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Lafayette College seeks a talented and engaged user interface programmer to join the Library's Digital Scholarship Services department. Are you passionate about Open Source software development? Are you excited by the prospect of creating elegant interfaces for Hydra/Fedora repositories and innovative repository-backed digital research projects? Do you dream in JavaScript, think in Linked Open Data, and/or daydream in Ruby (with sporadic lapses into PHP (within Drupal))?

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The California Digital Library is recruiting a Web Application Developer.

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Reporting to the Technical Team Manager, Discovery and Delivery Services, this position is one of eight developers in the Discovery and Delivery Group responsible for the technical design, implementation, maintenance, and operation of the CDL's bibliographic systems (the Melvyl Union Catalog, UC-eLInks, Request) as well as providing technical leadership in the design, development and implementation of new systems like the HathiTrust Metadata Management Service.

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Georgia State University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian.

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Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms of online scholars hip, and in partnering with scholars on the development, implementation, assessment, enhancement and maintenance of sustainable digital projects.

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The Oregon Health & Science University is recruiting a Technology Director .

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Reporting to the University Librarian, the Technology Director provides leadership, vision, and management for the Library's digital initiatives. This position leads technical development efforts including integration of systems, development of new applications, and implementations to support infrastructure, software, and services. The Technology Director extends Library technologies in joint projects with campus (e.g. Information Technology Group, Teaching and Learning Center) and regional partners (e.g. Orbis Cascade Alliance). As a member of the library leadership team, this position takes an active part in strategic planning; sets goals and objectives; serves on the Library Council that includes representatives from management, professional, and classified staff; supervises the Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian, two Systems/Applications Analysts, the Web Manager, and a Library Technician; and collaborates with Library, campus, community, and regional partners on technology solutions to serve the OHSU education, research, and clinical communities, and residents of the State of Oregon.

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TRLIN is recruiting a Executive Director, Triangle Research Libraries Network.

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The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), a consortial organization of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks a creative, dynamic, and committed leader to marshal the financial, human, and information resources of its member libraries. The focus of TRLN is to build cooperative efforts to create a rich information environment that furthers the universities' teaching, learning, research, and service missions.

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NYU is recruiting a Digital Studio Technology Specialist.

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The Digital Studio is NYU's gateway to digital services supporting scholarship and teaching. The Digital Studio Technology Specialist will manage the Digital Studio facility, provide client service, technical knowledge, technical development, and communications expertise in support of state-of-the-art computer technology used by faculty and researchers 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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Harvard University is recruiting a Digital Projects Manager .

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Under the direction of the Manager of Digital Content and Projects, the Digital Projects Manager will collaborate closely with members of Harvard Library Preservation Services, as well as curators, librarians, and archivists from across Harvard's libraries and archives to plan and manage projects to create digital library resources of enduring research value from original manuscripts and archives. Please note: This is a full time term appointment funded through June 30, 2016.

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The University of Kansas is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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The Scholarly Communications Librarian is a member of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Copyright in the Libraries Research and Learning Division. Reporting to the Head of the Office, the incumbent works closely with others in the Libraries and the University community and actively promotes author rights, as well as those of the creators, disseminators, and users of scholarly information, under fair use. In collaboration with colleagues, the Scholarly Communications Librarian assists in the promotion of the University's institutional repository and open access initiatives, seeking to build a sustainable program of outreach, consultation, and guidance on author rights, copyright and scholarly publishing issues.

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Washington University is recruiting a Project Coordinator.

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This is a 4-Year Grant Funded Position with full-time hours and is eligible for full-time benefits. . . . Reporting to the Digital Library Services Manager at Washington University Libraries, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for project management of digital initiatives within the Libraries' Scholarly Publishing unit. The incumbent will establish milestones, manage scheduling, track progress and coordinate contributors within and beyond the unit and university, for projects from software and web development to scholarly digital projects in publishing, digital libraries and digital humanities, initially focusing on the recently announced Newman Numismatic Portal project.

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Saskatchewan Polytechnic is recruiting a Copyright Consultant Librarian.

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The primary responsibility for the position is to advise and support Library Services and all members of the Saskatchewan Polytechnic community on copyright and various licensing issues. Working in collaboration with the Copyright Consultant (South) and Librarians' Council, the incumbent is responsible for promoting compliance with Canadian copyright law and Saskatchewan Polytechnic's copyright policies and guidelines. The position will provide institutional leadership on copyright issues for the use of materials in a digital learning environment, on general copyright questions, and in providing information and interpretation of the fair dealing and educational exemptions.

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Washington State University is recruiting a Digital Applications Librarian.

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The Digital Applications Librarian is part of the CDSC's long term project aimed at providing educational opportunities around digital curation, preservation and content management, specifically to underserved communities. The CDSC is the home for core digital scholarship and curation projects across campus with a special eye toward building out the libraries role and Mukurtu's capabilities. This position will provide an exciting space for collaboration, innovation, and open-source tool building through the continued development of Mukurtu CMS within a team environment. The Digital Applications Librarian will work directly with CDSC and Library staff to add features, update systems and integrate Mukurtu CMS into the core Library systems and projects including supporting several tribal communities nationwide in their use of the platform.

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UCLA is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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Reporting to the Head, Center for Primary Research & Training and Digital Initiatives, the Digital Archivist leads and supports LSC efforts to acquire, describe, preserve, and provide access to born-digital special collections material and to facilitate projects and programs that provide digital access to analog holdings. The Digital Archivist works in a highly collaborative manner with curatorial, professional, and technical staff in LSC and the UCLA Library, as well as with faculty and students, to enhance LSC digital services and operations, complete specific digital projects, and to lead the continuing development of a sustainable born-digital management program.

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The University of Idaho is recruiting a Digital Infrastructure Librarian.

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The successful applicant will support the University of Idaho's mission by making information resources available, findable, and usable by: providing support for digital and data initiatives in the Library, primarily for metadata and associated technologies; developing, implementing, and refining metadata, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies to enhance information organization, discovery, and use; efficiently managing large sets of metadata records; overseeing interoperability of library systems (e.g., harvesting records for display in the library's discovery interface); and serving as a resource to library employees for questions concerning database maintenance, metadata standards, interoperability of systems, and workflow.

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NYPL is recruiting an Applications Developer.

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• Design and implement scalable, optimized, and maintainable database driven web applications.
• Create workflows for processing petabyte-scale data including audio, video, text, images, etc
• Collaborate with a larger team across the library to create new and innovative online experiences for our users.
• Design and build APIs in order to extend our rich content and information to audiences spanning from NYC to the global community.
• Employ object-oriented analysis and design techniques including use case analysis, object modeling, and database schema design.

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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is recruiting a Special Collections and Digital Curation Librarian.

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The Special Collections and Digital Curation Librarian will be responsible for expanding, preserving, and disseminating collections from the Cal Poly Pomona Special Collections and University Archives, including collections such as the Cal Poly Rose Float Collection, the Virginia Hamilton Adair Collection, the Robert Lawrence Balzer Collection, and the Wine and Wine Industry Collection, among others. The ideal candidate will have a passion for preserving items of historic value to the University and a balanced view of managing physical and digital collections.

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The California Digital Library is recruiting a Digitization & Services Coordinator.

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Reporting to the Mass Digitization Project Manager, the Digitization & Services Coordinator will provide planning, coordination, analysis and communications support for UC systemwide digitization projects, including projects in partnership with Google, the Internet Archive, and other digitization agents. In addition, this position will support the UC Library Reprints Service, and may provide support to other projects for the Collection Development and Management Program as needed

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Brown University is recruiting an Information Designer.

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The Information Designer provides design expertise to support the development of media and data-driven digital scholarship. As a member of the Library's Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), the Information Designer works with scholars and technical staff from the conception of digital products through to their publication. The incumbent identifies and implements approaches to visual expression that offer clear, persuasive, and thematically-coherent experiences for an academic audience. S/he works to conceive, prototype, test, and complete designs for digital publications that pay particular attention to data representation, user experience, and the dialectical or exploratory goals of the scholarship. The Information Designer maintains current awareness of all relevant UI and UX technologies, and applies that knowledge as part of development teams working on a variety of digital scholarship projects in the humanities. This is a grant-supported position with funding until the end of 2019.

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The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Application Developer Senior.

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Reporting to the Director for Digital Library Development & Systems, the Senior Developer creates software for multiple complex digital library projects. Project work supports a wide range of computing services which enhance and facilitate teaching, learning and research efforts of the University. Digital library development comprises a full technology stack, including coding, technical architectures, application specifications, database design, & workflow analysis. In addition the Senior Developer is responsible, along with other programmers, for testing, quality assurance and the life cycle management of library applications. The Senior Developer is a participant in and at times leads project teams to implement IT services, technical solutions and designs.

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Brown University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Editor.

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The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position in the Brown University Library designed to extend Brown's capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication. The Digital Scholarship Editor will play an important role in an effort to bring together key technological, organization, and academic policy strategies across the campus that will generate a broader, more effective structure within the University to support the creation, cultivation, evaluation, dissemination and preservation of new forms of scholarship. In addition, the Digital Scholarship Editor will pursue publishing opportunities for the digital projects under development and will promote digital publications to both traditional and nontraditional audiences. The position is funded until the end of 2019.

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The University of Toronto is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

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The Digital Preservation Librarian is responsible for working with Scholars Portal staff and the broader OCUL community to ensure that assessment standards as established by relevant preservation communities (e.g. TRAC, DSA, etc…) are understood, communicated, and employed on an ongoing basis to ensure that Scholars Portal practices meet or exceed community standards.

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New York University is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.

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The Data Services Librarian position is a tenure-track position based in the NYU Data Services. Data Services offers access to specialty software packages; statistical, geospatial, and qualitative data analysis training and support; and consulting expertise in the use of numeric, qualitative, and spatial data for research, including data access, analysis, collection, data management, and preservation. This position reports to the Social Sciences Coordinator/Co-Coordinator of Data Services in the Collections and Research Services Division of New York University Libraries.

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The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Director for Digital Library Development and Systems.

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Reporting to the Director for Strategic Initiatives and Technology Services, the Director for Digital Library Development and Systems (DLDS) is a principal voice in IT strategy, sharing knowledge with staff, and providing strategic intelligence, and good judgment to planning and policy formation. The Director executes strategic IT decisions for the enterprise, and is the front-line leader of day-to-day operations, the DLDS service portfolio, staff, all in support of the aspirations and strategic goals of the Penn Libraries. DLDS operations are broad, ranging from computing and data infrastructure to applications design, digital development, software life-cycle management, and technology support for enterprise services, such as the Integrated Library System, the Expertise@Penn researcher service, and the Library data warehousing platform, MetriDoc. The Director serves as a key liaison between the Penn Libraries and Penn's central Information Systems and Computing (ISC) unit as well as with other technology operations on campus and institutional partners on the national scene.

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The North Carolina Archives and Records Section is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The North Carolina Archives and Records Section, a leader in addressing the challenges of preserving digital information, is seeking an innovative and forward-thinking archivist to further develop standards and best practices for preservation of and access to permanent digital information and records and implementing a trusted digital repository. The position works closely with staff in the State Archives, the State Library, state and local government, and other institutions to assist and provide consultation to the same regarding technology with regards to electronic records; assists in testing and evaluating of technology solutions; and works with supervisor to communicate outreach to state and local governments, interpret technical information, and acquire and implement technologies to support functions for digital archiving. This position also assists with facilitation of policy development and building a publicly accessible digital archives.

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