Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Digital Repository Analyst.

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As part of a team of developers, the Digital Repository Analyst develops tools supporting ingest, management, preservation, and delivery of digital content. Working collaboratively with library staff and campus partners, the Digital Repository Analyst participates in the full life cycle of application development, from design through implementation, support, and maintenance. The Analyst evaluates new technologies and techniques for use in the CDR. This position plans, implements, and tests software upgrades and enhancements, working with systems administrators and other stakeholders as necessary. The Digital Repository Analyst coordinates and assists with user acceptance testing. From time to time the Analyst might also work on projects not directly related to the repository.

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The University of Iowa is recruiting a Digital Project Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head, Special Collections, the Digital Project Librarian manages and performs digitization and processing activities related to the Hevelin Fanzine Digitization project.

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Oklahoma State University is recruiting a Head, Digital Library Services.

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The OSU Library seeks a highly motivated professional to lead Digital Library Services. The Department facilitates access to electronic information, print materials, and library services to ensure that the information needs of OSU students, faculty, and staff are met, regardless location.

The department supports web-based scholarly publishing initiatives. This position provides guidance and leadership in the continuing development and promotion of SHAREOK.org, the collaborative repository project with the University of Oklahoma Libraries.

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The New York Public Library is recruiting a Digitization Services Manager.

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The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a visionary, inventive manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with the world through digitization. The Manager will oversee the preservation-grade photography and reformatting of The New York Public Library's rare and unique holdings (including illuminated manuscripts, prints, rare books, literary and historical archives, historical maps, one of the world's largest photography collections, Broadway set and costume designs, and diverse documents charting the changing landscape of New York City). The Digitization Services Manager will also serve as a primary architect of a range of new digitization streams with the goal of dramatically increasing the volume, speed, and range of NYPL's imaging activities (e.g. rapid book scanning, high-speed microfilm digitization, and experiments with new approaches).

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The Library of Congress is recruiting a Folklife Specialist (Digital Assets Management).

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The position serves as the Folklife Specialist (Digital Assets Management) and is located in the American Folklife Center (AFC) within Library Services and reports directly to the Head, Archive of Folk Culture. The purpose of this position is to oversee the administration of American Folklife Center's digital asset management program, including developing and managing born-digital and reformatted collection processing workflows.

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Binghamton University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian .

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As a member of the Library Technology department, reporting to the Director of Library Technology, the Digital Initiatives Librarian provides quality service and support to library faculty, staff and patrons.

They collaborate in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of digital projects to enhance user experience and improve workflows within the library. This includes digital initiatives such as digital curation and preservation, digital exhibits, the Libraries' website, and search and discovery of library resources. Digital curation and preservation tasks include digital forensics, applying metadata schema for access and preservation, and investigating and developing submission workflows for digital content. They assist in training and supervising student assistants and serve as a project manager for processing materials for digital collections; working closely with metadata/cataloging, Special Collections and University Archives, and others to deploy and configure systems to fully leverage the potential of metadata and digital objects derived from disparate sources.

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UCLA is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer.

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Reporting to the Digital Library Team Leader & System Architect the Digital Library Programmer (DLP) develops applications and services using the components of the Islandora application stack, a collection of open source software components. Incumbent defines and configures complex digital objects, comprised of data streams (e.g., image, sound, and video) and associated descriptive and technical metadata, for retention in the Fedora Commons repository; develops or modify existing object ingest procedures through the Islandora modules of the Drupal content management system; writes scripts to invoke micro services to transform objects and create derivative objects; develops procedures to create SOLR indexes that support faceted and geospatial searching; and assists Drupal content managers to publish collections.

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Penn State is recruiting an Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies.

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The Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies will provide leadership and advocacy for information technology, digital initiatives, repository services and resource discovery and access services. The position will serve as administrator for the Libraries' Department for Information Technologies, Publishing and Curation Services, and Media Technology and Support Services as well as for cross-organizational teams such as the Digital Preservation Strategies Team, ScholarSphere (institutional repository) Service Team, and Hydra Strategy Team.

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The University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Research Data Management Service Design Analyst.

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The Library and Research IT at UC Berkeley seek a Research Data Management Service Design Analyst to help them define and develop a UC Berkeley Research Data Management service.

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Indiana University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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Indiana University Libraries seeks a dynamic, innovative and collaborative individual to support digital scholarship initiatives including: providing guidance for the digitization of special collections, managing existing digital library services and informing the creation of new services, and fostering digital research projects. Reporting to the Head of Digital Collections Services, the Digital Initiatives Librarian leverages expertise across the Indiana University Libraries, bridges various subject domains and communities of practice across the Bloomington campus, and coordinates team members across the broad spectrum of activities required to produce digital resources, from selection and conversion of content to the design of the online resource.

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The College of Wooster is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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This newly created faculty position reports to the Director of Libraries and provides leadership in creating, organizing, promoting, and curating digital materials. The librarian will play a key role in supporting our Open Access resolution, our institutional repository (Open Works), digital projects developed under our current grant, institutional research data, born digital scholarship, and digitized content. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will serve as a liaison to one or more academic departments and participate in the Libraries research and instruction programs. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with a library staff focused on user needs and committed to developing an evolving library program that best supports the mission of the College.

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Washington State University is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

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The primary responsibility of this position is to implement plans and digital projects for moving the WSU Libraries forward in meeting the challenges of changing modes of scholarly communication. The position reports to the Head of Digital Scholarship and Curation (DSC). DSC is a new unit within the Libraries that encompasses all of the digital projects, assets and collections that the Libraries creates and maintains. In a broader context, the formation of DSC recognizes existing collaborations between the Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences and signals an expanded relationship in the future.

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South Dakota State University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Coordinator.

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The successful candidate will identify, build, shape, and promote access to the Library's Digitial collections. S/he will lead efforts to preserve, describe and provide security for these collections. The position will provide leadership for the development, growth, and preservation of the Hilton M. Briggs digital collections in order to support SDSU scholars and researchers.

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South Dakota State University is recruiting a Institutional Repository Coordinator.

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The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for launching, maintaining, and enhancing the University's insitutitonal repository. S/he will collaborate with colleagues in the Library, across the University, and throughout the state and region to collect, organize, preserve, and provide access to the scholarly output of SDSU faculty, staff and students.

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Columbia University is recruiting a Metadata Librarian.

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The purpose of this position is to develop, document, maintain and apply standards and procedures for creating metadata used to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content generated by the Libraries and other units within Information Services; to work with the Digital Programs Division and Technology Services Group to ensure and coordinate integration of digital metadata with local and national systems, and to provide full original cataloging for resources in a variety of languages, formats and media. The position also manages research publication metadata curation and identity management for the ColumbiaPARC system.

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The New York Public Library is recruiting a Metadata Specialist (Specialist III).

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The Metadata Services Unit (MSU) of NYPL Labs is seeking its newest member: a creative, self-motivated specialist to wrangle metadata, oversee workflows, make batch enhancements across a corpus of more than a million metadata records, contributing to the conceptualization and rollout of experimental data collection and remediation tools, and lots more. This is a perfect opportunity for an enthusiastic, problem-solving individual interested in the full digital library lifecycle, from digitization to the creation of user-engagement tools and public programs. Passionate interest in the future of libraries a must.

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Case Western Reserve University is recruiting a Team Leader, Digital Learning and Scholarship.

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The Digital Learning & Scholarship (DLSTL) Team Leader is part of a service-driven team that supports creation and curation services in the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL). The DLSTL has responsibility for overseeing digital strategy and services and technology management. The DLSTL provides training and outreach to the campus community about digital initiatives and content for the digital repository and has responsibility for fostering sustainable models of scholarly communication, creating new forms of digital scholarship and access, and providing guidance on copyright in teaching and research.

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The University of New Hampshire is recruiting a Research Data Services (Contract) Librarian.

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This librarian will play a significant strategic and operational role in expanding the library's support for research data services to meet the growing needs of UNH faculty and students. Working closely with the Scholarly Communication Librarian, the library's Data Services Working Group, the UNH Research Office, and other partners in creating a robust research data infrastructure at UNH, the incumbent will be integral in developing and building sustainable services to assist faculty, researchers, and students with the management of research data.

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Temple University is recruiting a Digital Library Applications Developer.

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Reporting to the Senior Digital Library Applications Developer and working closely with others in the Digital Library Initiatives Department, the DLAD helps develop and maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple University's digital library initiatives and services, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects with the Hydra repository framework, and supporting digital scholarship (including digital humanities), and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the Library. As part of the development team, the DLAD architects, implements, tests and deploys new tools and services primarily based on open source project software, such as Hydra, Fedora Commons, Omeka, VIVO, Scalar, and Open Journal Systems (OJS), potentially contributing code to those projects.

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George Mason University is recruiting a Director, VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia).

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In concert with the VIVA Steering Committee, the Director will develop, evaluate, and assess VIVA's mission, vision, goals, policies, and priorities. S/he will be operationally responsible for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of VIVA's overall program, projects, and activities, including development of funding proposals, license negotiation and other vendor relations, promotion and representation of VIVA within the higher education community, and advocacy on behalf of VIVA within the Commonwealth.

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The University of Nevada Las Vegas is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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This position will provide oversight and leadership of UNLV Libraries' institutional repository Digital Scholarship@UNLV (http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/). The incumbent will establish consistent policies and best practices, engage campus content providers, and provide guidance on scholarly communication issues and concerns.

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is recruiting a Manager, Digital Assets.

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The manager oversees the day-to-day administration and use of the digital asset management system, while also working hands-on with assets, data, and the system by directly contributing, organizing, describing, and disseminating assets.

Working collaboratively with staff across the museum, the manager develops and supports sustainable practices around the digital asset lifecycle to ensure the availability and integrity of assets related to the museum and its history, collections, programs, and operations.

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Purdue University is recruiting a Digital Data Repository Specialist.

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Purdue University Libraries seeks a Digital Data Repository Specialist to join our team at the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) and coordinate our cutting-edge research data repository service, PURR. The Purdue University Research Repository (http://purr.purdue.edu) provides a platform for campus researchers to develop and implement effective data management plans, collaborate on research online, publish datasets and tools, and archive them in a secure, reliable digital repository. This administrative/professional position will work with colleagues in the Office of the Vice President for Research, Information Technology at Purdue, and the Libraries to conduct the day-to-day outreach, operation, support, and improvement of the PURR system and service.

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St. Edward's University is recruiting a Library Digital Services Manager.

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The kinds of things you'll likely do in this position:

• Support the library's core systems — III's Millennium ILS and EBSCO's EDS search engine/discovery layer, as well as LibGuides, LibAnswers, ILLiad, and Ares.
• Craft clean, maintainable, and tested code with the aid of modern MVC best practices, design patterns, and test frameworks.
• Automate library processes, such as sending and receiving vendor data.
• Build and support thoughtful integrations with multiple university systems.
• Implement and support open source solutions such as Omeka, Islandora, Fedora Commons, or other similar institutional repositories.

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