Category: Digital Library Jobs

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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The University of South Carolina is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Archivist.

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This position will be responsible for developing and implementing policies for the accessioning, appraisal, preservation, and description of, and access to, born-digital records collected by SCPC. The Digital Initiatives Archivist will also assist with outreach, including digitization of audiovisual materials for use in online and on-site interactive exhibits, and maintaining online presence of finding aids via ArchivesSpace.

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McGill University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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Provides scholarly communications services to the campus community, including preservation of and access to the research output of the McGill community, publishing, open access, and authors' rights.

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McGill University is recruiting a Coordinator, Data Curation and Scholarly Communications.

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Leads the formalization, expansion, and implementation of Library-based research data curation services to the campus, and provides these services to researchers. Supervises members of the Data Curation and Scholarly Communications team within Library Digital Initiatives.

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the University of Texas at San Antonio is recruiting a Special Projects Librarian.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries seeks a Special Projects Librarian to assist with the implementation and support of major library-wide digital initiatives.

The Special Projects Librarian will support projects by learning, configuring and training staff on new applications, helping transition projects into daily operations, creating and maintaining project documentation, coordinating project communications, developing written content and metadata, and conducting user testing on new and existing applications.

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New York Public Library is recruiting a Humanities Curator.

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Under the general direction of the Library's Brooke Russell Astor Director of Collections Strategy, the Humanities Curator

• Initiates outreach activities to promote teaching, learning, and scholarship using the Library's collections.
• Serves as a resource and facilitator for digital humanists working on projects and recommends collections for acquisition.
• Working closely with colleagues both internally and externally, collaborates on the development and production of digital publications, scholarly projects, and educational resources that showcase the Library's collections.
• Serves as a change agent, partner, and resource for subject librarians and special collections curators involved in facilitating digital projects.

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Georgia Southern University is recruiting a Discovery Services & Data Curation Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head of the Collection and Resource Services Department, the Discovery Services & Data Curation Librarian (DSDC) will promote data curation in Digital Commons (the Henderson Library's institutional repository) and other open access data repositories; manage research data sets in Digital Commons; assist faculty with data plans and structure for display in Digital Commons; serve as Library Liaison to the Office of Research; promote a service culture for technical services; manage EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to provide maximum positive user experience;

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The Kansas Historical Society is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The Kansas State Historical Society seeks to hire a Digital Archivist to support the State Research Collections Division's management of born-digital and digitized archival collections, including but not limited to the Kansas Memory digital archives.

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The Florida Institute of Technology is recruiting a Research Data Specialist.

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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Consult on grant requirements related to data management, data sharing and publication
• Arrange and conduct data interviews with researchers
• Analyze, collect and curate electronic data, including bibliographic data
• Help establish standards and best practices for displaying data
• Assist with testing of new tools and visualization framework

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Indiana University Bloomington is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

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The Digital Preservation Librarian will lead the development and implementation of preservation strategies and policies for digital collections for the IU Libraries, including both digitized and born-digital materials. The position reports to the Assistant Dean for Library Technologies for work-related issues with a dotted line relationship to the Associate Dean for Collection Development and Scholarly Communication for matters relating to promotion and tenure.

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The University of Alberta is recruiting a Director of the Copyright Office.

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Reporting directly to the Vice-Provost (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, the Director of the Copyright Office will participate in the strategic development of Learning Services which includes the Libraries, Museums and Collections, Bookstore, University Press, and Technology Training Centre, as well as the Copyright Office. The successful candidate will establish mechanisms to assist the university community in complying with copyright laws and best practices in their research and publishing, teaching and use of resources and services.

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Harvard University is recruiting a Web Designer.

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The Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society are looking for a web designer to help us build tools to explore the open Internet and define the future of libraries.

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Cornell University is recruiting a Digital Programs Associate.

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Under the direction of the Digital Scholarship Librarian, the Digital Programs Associate will work with a large network of stakeholders across the Cornell University community to successfully manage and execute time-sensitive deliverables for a wide range of exciting digital programs. The successful candidate will be self-directed, enjoy working as a member of large, project-specific teams in a positive and professional manner.

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The University of North Texas is recruiting a IT Programmer .

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Working with the Django Web framework and other open source components, you will contribute to the feature development and upkeep of the content delivery system in use for The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) and related products. In addition, you will provide programming support for our metadata creation and editing systems. You will work collaboratively with other programmers and technologists in the UNT Libraries to address software problems and to add and customize features for our products.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is recruiting a Research Programmer for the Research Data Service.

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As a member of the Repository Development Team and reporting to the Manager for Repository Development, the Research Programmer will provide design, programming, and technical support for all components of a large-scale, campus-wide, research data repository system.

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