Digitization Project Manager at American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is recruiting a Digitization Project Manager.

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Manages all activities related to the digitization of material and data from the JDC Global Archives in New York and Israel.

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Spatial Data Analyst/Curator at University of Minnesota Libraries

The University of Minnesota Libraries are recruiting a Spatial Data Analyst/Curator.

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Reporting to the Head of the John R. Borchert Map Library, and working closely with the U-Spatial Data Core team, the Libraries Research Data Management/Curation Initiative, the University Digital Conservancy program, and other Libraries and campus geospatial information services, the Spatial Data Analyst/Curator holds primary responsibilities in these areas:

  • Consultation and Advocacy—consults with University faculty, staff, and students from across the University on policy and procedural issues related to the creation, management and dissemination of spatial data assets. . . .
  • Content Recruitment—Develop and execute a multi-year, community engagement strategy to acquire and build a corpus of digital spatial data for access and preservation via U-Spatial. . . .
  • Workflow Analysis and Process Development—analyzes user workflows and data flows to inform the design and development of low-barrier processes for content submission into the access and repository systems used by U-Spatial (i.e., geoportal federated web application access system, and a DPS-digital preservation repository management system). . . .
  • Metadata Management—standards, creation, transformation, ingest.

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Digital and Audio Archivist, Special Collections at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is recruiting a Digital and Audio Archivist, Special Collections.

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The Digital and Audio Archivist provides departmental support for digital collection and content management, with an emphasis on project management and workflow. The Archivist will also manage the department's audio holdings consisting of more than 35,000 recordings.

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Preservation Librarian at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Library

The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Library is recruiting a Preservation Librarian.

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Under the general direction of the Associate Dean for Support Services and responsive to input from the Dean of Library Affairs, the Preservation Librarian is responsible for the administration of the Library Affairs' preservation program. The Preservation Librarian's responsibilities include: Collaborates with librarians and staff in Information Services, Special Collections Research Center, Cataloging, and Acquisitions on the planning, development, implementation, maintenance, and management of comprehensive physical and digital preservation and conservation programs for general and special collections in all formats.

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Director, Digital Initiatives and Services at New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is recruiting a Director, Digital Initiatives and Services.

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Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of The New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Initiatives and Services leads the experimentation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. This person partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify, design, incubate and ensure delivery of an excellent user experience across all our digital properties. This position forms part of a senior team responsible for the digital strategy and customer service across the NYPL.

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Assistant Dean for Collections & Digital Initiatives at Ohio University Libraries

The Ohio University Libraries are recruiting an Assistant Dean for Collections & Digital Initiatives.

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As a part of the senior management team, the Assistant Dean reports to the Dean of Libraries and works closely with the Assistant Dean for Research and Education on the development and evaluation of programs, staff, budget and other resources in support of the Libraries' mission. He or she works effectively with students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds, including nine librarians and 20 support staff in acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, digital initiatives, and preservation.

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Lead Digital Library QA Developer at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame

The Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame are recruiting a Lead Digital Library QA Developer.

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Under the direction of the Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Program, we are seeking an experienced quality assurance professional to establish a testing framework for our Digital Repository systems and coordinate the execution of tests by other technical staff. This position will focus on defining both manual and automated tests for a wide variety of systems to support archiving, describing, and sharing digital visual materials, documents, and research data. These include both back end services as well as public web interfaces and network clients on top of Fedora Commons and Solr including: Search Interface Tools; Digital Exhibits; Document, Data, Image, Audio, and Video viewers, User Workflows, Metadata Management Tools, Digital Collection Management, and Research Data Visualization Tools.

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Digital Project Manager at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame

The Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame are recruiting a Digital Project Manager.

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Reporting to Associate University Librarian, Digital Access, Resources and information Technology, the incumbent will be actively engaged in managing the Libraries' current portfolio of cross-programmatic technology projects, including software development projects and infrastructure projects. He or she will lead project planning, implementation, assessment, and improvement, as well as refine, optimize, and document on-going project management protocols and practices.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Toronto Libraries

The University of Toronto Libraries are recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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The Digital Scholarship Librarian's primary role will be to support and enable the use of digital content in new research, by connecting faculty and students to digital content held by the University of Toronto, using sustainable and scalable digital research tools, methods and frameworks.

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Science Informationist at University of Cincinnati Libraries

The University of Cincinnati Libraries are recruiting a Science Informationist.

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  • Develop and deliver innovative research services to the UC science and engineering community.
  • Identify, champion, and implement tools and services that meet evolving e-science and e-research needs. . . .
  • Play a lead role in the development and implementation of consultation services for scientific data access, management and preservation. Employ best practices to develop sustainable and domain-appropriate services and tools that support and enhance UC's research agenda.
  • Collaborate with other UC librarians to implement research data management services and support for scholarly communication and digital scholarship.

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Temporary Digital Production Manager at North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is recruiting a Temporary Digital Production Manager.

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The Digital Production Manager will manage digitization and online publication of original materials from partner institutions for the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. The successful candidate will oversee scanning and digital photography of historic photographs, scrapbooks, newspapers, manuscripts, and artifacts owned by cultural heritage institutions in North Carolina. He or she will also manage description of the digitized materials and the loading of digitized content into the Digital Heritage Center's content management system.

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Data Research Librarian at Florida State University Libraries

The Florida State University Libraries are recruiting a Data Research Librarian.

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Florida State University Libraries seeks an energetic and innovative librarian to facilitate access to and use of data collections and to provide services to data users, focusing initially on the social sciences. The Data Research Librarian will be responsible for developing and providing consultative, instructional, and outreach services to faculty and students using data and for selecting data resources. This position will work closely with the government documents Librarian, technology staff, and subject librarians to develop a complementary suite of data collections and services.

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Senior Systems Administrator at Texas Digital Library

The Texas Digital Library is recruiting a Senior Systems Administrator.

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Act as leader of the TDL Systems team, overseeing the administration of systems including repositories, preservation systems, the Vireo Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Management System, and other tools supporting scholarly communication activities as key services of the Texas Digital Library. Develop an architecture for standardization, security, and back-up assurance for TDL services within the Amazon cloud for multiple client universities. Provide lead system administration for DSpace repository management. Support applications for data processing, remote database interfaces, and associated run-time environments and operate in a Linux environment at Amazon Web Service. Work with Director of Operations to design or integrate, code, test and deploy applications for support of services.

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Digital Systems and Stewardship Project Manager at University of Maryland Libraries

The University of Maryland Libraries are recruiting a Digital Systems and Stewardship Project Manager.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean of Digital Systems and Stewardship, the Project Manager will manage projects for which the Division plays a primary role. Working with department managers in DSS, the Project Manager coordinates stakeholders throughout the UMD Libraries to conceptualize, manage, implement, and prioritize projects. This includes participating in day-to-day project-based tasks, providing oversight of project milestones vis à vis individual workloads, providing clear and efficient communication to staff regarding their assigned tasks and deadlines, and providing clear and timely documentation (verbal and written) on project progress.

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Digital Library Applications Developer at Temple University Libraries

Temple University Libraries are 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 incumbent will develop web applications and help maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple University's digital library initiatives and services, which includes preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects and supporting digital humanities and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the Library. Performs other duties as assigned.

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Metadata Librarian at Eastern Washington University Libraries

The Eastern Washington University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian.

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The position has professional responsibilities in librarianship, scholarship, and service. Responsibilities in librarianship focus on developing and maintaining the discovery engine used to find library resources; activities in cataloging, classification, and metadata creation for library resources; participating in production of archival digital collections and microfilm preservation; guiding the selection and use of metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies, and data dictionaries to facilitate use of digital collections and institutional repository as these develop; and communicating and consulting with others about the organization, description, and discovery of library resources.

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Digital Repository Manager at Northeastern University Libraries

Northeastern University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repository Manager.

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The Digital Repository Manager is responsible for the management and support of Northeastern's Digital Repository Service (DRS). Working with the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services, the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, and the Head of Library Technology Services, the Repository Manager guides the development of new functionalities and services based upon the DRS. The Repository Manager coordinates with other library units to develop workflows and standards for digitization projects.

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Digital Curation Coordinator at University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries are recruiting a Digital Curation Coordinator.

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Reporting to the Libraries' Digital Preservation Officer, the Digital Curation Coordinator will be the principal liaison and technical support for the UWDCC's Institutional Repository and digital publication services to University faculty, departments, and other librarians. The successful candidate will consult with the campus community about their data curation needs, and work with them to preserve the scholarly output of the University. This person will collaborate extensively with liaison librarians, library technologists, and Digital Collections staff, as well as with the University's research support community. In addition, the Digital Curation Coordinator will participate in the development of preservation policies, procedures, and workflows, researching and recommending best practices related to digital content management and preservation.

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Digital Archivist at Western University of Health Sciences Library

The Western University of Health Sciences Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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Under the direction of the University Archivist, the Digital Archivist's primary focus is to provide leadership and management of existing collections (such as photographs, newspaper articles, year books, videos, and museum items), including the ingestion, annotation, metadata schema and authority control, cataloging, storage, and retrieval of digital assets; and supervise the digitization and dissemination of information to patrons and the campus community.

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Director, Research Data Service at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is recruiting a Director, Research Data Service.

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The Director of the Research Data Service provides leadership and direction for the newly-established campus-wide Research Data Service (RDS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The RDS is a campus-wide service headquartered in the University Library that provides support to researchers to manage, preserve, and make their data accessible to the research community. The RDS provides support for campus researchers, colleges, research centers and groups, in partnership with the University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services), NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Office of the Provost, and GSLIS (Graduate School of Library and Information Science).

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Librarian, Digital Initiatives & Scholarship at Swarthmore College Libraries

The Swarthmore College Libraries are recruiting a Librarian, Digital Initiatives & Scholarship.

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The Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship will establish and grow a dynamic program to support new models of scholarship. S/he will foster the successful adoption and application of digital approaches to teaching, learning, and research, will develop sustainable and scalable digital resources, and will explore emerging and existing technologies which enable the use of digital content. Will manage a portfolio of digital scholarship, digital collection and library technology projects, in close collaboration with faculty, librarians, academic technologists and tri-college partners.

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Research and Data Support Coordinator at University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries are recruiting a Research and Data Support Coordinator.

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The position works with faculty, academic units and research centers, assisting in managing, describing, preserving and making research and data available and accessible to appropriate audiences. The position will assist faculty with writing data management plans, will work closely with the Libraries' subject liaisons, and will provide library-wide training, research, and assistance for our research and data support initiatives. The Research and Data Support Coordinator reports to the Head of ERIT, who is also an Assistant Dean of University Libraries. This is a non tenure-track professional position.

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Research Informationist at UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library is recruiting a Research Informationist.

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The Research Informationist provides a broad range of information services, including data curation and management, across the entire research life cycle for UCLA students, faculty, staff, and researchers in the health and life sciences. The Research Informationist also contributes to research, consultation, instruction, and collection services within defined areas of responsibility from both clinical and basic science departments. The Research Informationist is a member of the Research, Instruction, and Collection Services (RICS) division and reports to the RICS Team Leader.

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Librarian—Digital Repository/Archivist/Special Collections at California State University, Long Beach Library

The California State University, Long Beach Library is recruiting a Librarian—Digital Repository/Archivist/Special Collections.

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  • Oversee and manage the University's digital institutional repository, Scholarship @ the Beach (S@tB).
  • Oversee the University Library's Special Collections and Archives unit.
  • Oversee and manage the digitization of several archival collections.
  • Collaborate with library Technical Services staff and Academic Technology staff to make the digitized collections available via the library's web portal.
  • Provide reference and consultation services to the student, faculty, and visiting scholar patrons; conduct library instruction for classes by interpreting and helping students to appreciate the unique and rare resources.

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Analyst/Programmer 2 at University of New Mexico Libraries

The University of New Mexico Libraries are recruiting an Analyst/Programmer 2.

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The successful candidate will work in a broad spectrum of technical areas such as: application development, web presence, digital archival collections, metadata, and research facilitation. They will work within an agile development team to produce output that will be iterative in nature. As such, this position will require the ability to engage customers, face to face, and extrapolate specific requirements.

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