The District of Columbia Public Library is recruiting a Librarian (Digital Curation).
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Under the general direction of the Special Collections Manager, the Digital Curation Librarian is primarily responsible for managing digitization for the Library's unique and historical materials and curating digital content.
Furman University Library is recruiting a Digital Collections Specialist.
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The Digital Collections Specialist digitizes materials for Furman faculty, staff, administrators, and other partners for use in teaching, research, exhibition, preservation and inclusion in the Furman Digital Collections. The Digital Collections Specialist oversees a cadre of student assistants, assists in the preparation of metadata for the digitized assets and interacts with faculty, staff and students regarding details about specific digitization projects. Major areas of expertise include: digitization, metadata assignment, video, audio, and image editing.
Florida Atlantic University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.
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Reporting to the Digital Initiatives Librarian, the Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for the long-term preservation of FAU's digital collections in the Florida Digital Archive. The desired candidate will have an understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, issues, and trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library environment. The primary responsibility of this candidate will be the long-term preservation of existing FAU digital content files using the Florida Digital Archives web ingest platform and FTP server to send submission information packages. Experience should reflect the ability to create and edit METs and XML files used to create packages.
The Penn State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Humanities Research Designer.
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The Digital Humanities Research Designer will be familiar with a range of technologies and have direct experience bringing digital approaches to bear on research and teaching. The scholar in this position will work as an intellectual partner with faculty, students, and staff in the College of the Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will collaborate with humanities faculty and library colleagues to expand modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. In providing research project support and conducting workshops on the use of various tools. . . .
This is a fixed-term (multi-year), non-tenure track, 3-year appointment based in the Publishing and Curation Services department within the University Libraries.
Princeton University Libraries are recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarianr.
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The Scholarly Communications Librarian will manage the Princeton University Library's efforts to support scholarly publication innovations and reforms, and will supervise and coordinate activities related to the Princeton Open Access policy and the Princeton Institutional Repository. The librarian will serve on University committees and represent Princeton on national groups and committees. The librarian will report to the Director of Scholarly Communications, and will be based in the Lewis Science Library.
Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Media Digitization Production Coordinator.
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The Media Digitization Production Coordinator will, under the supervision of the Manager of the Stanford Media Preservation Lab, support the management and operation of media reformatting labs and will contribute to the creation and provision of access to digital collections. He/she will contribute to all steps in the production workflow, including materials selection, preparation, metadata creation, quality control and preparation of files for online access and repository preservation. The Production Coordinator will help coordinate the daily operations of media reformatting projects, including data management, troubleshooting, exception handling, and coordination of tasks, working closely with a variety of team members, including but not limited to: the lab manager, project manager(s), archivists and curators, outside vendors, and fellow production staff. The Production Coordinator will also help maintain project documentation, issue status reports, and track daily progress.
This is a 100% FTE position (40 hours per week) for a fixed term of 36 months, with a possibility of extension.
The NCSU Libraries are recruiting a Visualization Coordinator.
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The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Visualization Coordinator in the Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) department. The NCSU Libraries is working to make available advanced technologies and services that support university teaching and research through the development of enhanced visualization spaces, services, and tools. At the same time, the Libraries is developing services and building a community of support for university-wide e-research needs related to data access, management, and visualization.
The University of Mississippi Libraries are recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.
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Oversees the technical details needed to manage and expand our digital program, including: digitizing textual, image, audio, and video materials; metadata creation; migrating digital resources; managing standards usage compliance; collaborating with other librarians; providing metadata training; supervision of student workers; management and preservation of electronic and born digital records; and additional digital project management. This position oversees EAD encoding and acts as liaison between Web Services and Technical Services.
The University of Michigan Library Publishing Technology unit is recruiting an Application Programmer.
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-Software analysis and design. Meeting with stakeholders and other developers for requirements gathering. Modeling business logic and workflows. Researching and proposing tools/libraries that match requirements and environment.
-Software development and maintenance
-Writing documentation for code, software environments, workflows and etc.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries are recruiting a Special Formats and Metadata Cataloger.
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he Special Formats and Metadata Cataloger is responsible for and maintains an understanding of issues involved in the cataloging of geospatial data, statistical datasets, cartographic resources, locally produced research data, and other data resources as needs arise. The Cataloger contributes to the professional dialogue to improve service and enhance access to library resources and contributes authority records to the national authority files. The Cataloger also helps support the growing workload surrounding non-MARC metadata in the Libraries, and researches metadata standards and best practices as they apply in a variety of disciplines. The individual in this position serves as a resource for staff in all campus libraries, advising on appropriate strategies for creating and managing metadata for a wide variety of digital media formats, including data sets, theses and dissertations, unpublished scholarly work, raw research data, images, audio, and video. The Cataloger participates in the design and development of tools and workflows to support long-term preservation and access to digitized and born-digital materials in the Carolina Digital Repository.
The Rockefeller Archive Center is recruiting an Assistant Digital Archivist.
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The candidate will provide expertise to support the analysis, selection, and implementation of metadata schemas appropriate to the cataloging and discovery platforms at the RAC. Reporting to the Assistant Director- Head of Digital Programs, the successful candidate will collaborate with archivists throughout the RAC, providing training and supervision as assigned.
The candidate will be expected to explore software tools and applications of different technologies for cataloging and metadata production and maintenance; identify, implement, and test applications that will help automate or improve the efficiency and productivity of RAC’s operations, especially those related to scanning and digital duplication; manage documentation and promote knowledge transfer and training for descriptive and digitization practices at the RAC; maintain knowledge of and participate in national and international developments in metadata standards, cataloging, bibliographic and authority control; and participate in professional development activities.
The University of Pennsylvania State University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian.
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The University Libraries has a program of cutting-edge development in scholarly publishing, data curation and digital content management. The first product of this program is ScholarSphere, Penn State's repository service based on Hydra/Fedora infrastructure. The Libraries plans to extend ScholarSphere as well as to develop other Hydra/Fedora-based products, such as services for long-term preservation and access to archival records. This development is done in a highly collaborative environment, based on use cases created in consultation with the researchers whose data is being curated. The Metadata Librarian will contribute appropriate leadership and expertise to this program, our digitization program, our web-based resources, and other local, national, and international programs where metadata expertise is required.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are recruiting a Data Services Librarian.
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The successful candidate will play a leadership role creating a campus environment for successful discovery, use, and management of locally and externally available data especially in the areas of science and social science research. Duties include providing assistance to researchers who need help developing a data management plan, including data curation issues related to creation, documentation, and metadata standards; developing and promoting an understanding of the theory, principles, and evolving practice of scholarly communication; and developing library services to support the data curation needs of faculty, staff, and graduate researchers to meet the data management and sharing requirements of various funding agencies. This position reports to the Assistant Director of Libraries for User and Research Services.
The New York University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.
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The Digital Archivist, reporting to the Director of Collections & Research Services and the Director of Digital Library Technology Services, will lead New York University Libraries' efforts to manage the existing born digital holdings and expand the capacity to collect born digital content, ensure effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, future migration, access to and security of digital components of collections acquired by the Libraries.
The Marshall University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian and Records Manager.
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As a member of the Special Collections Department team, research, develop, document, and implement a digital preservation program to ensure preservation of all the University's archival, manuscript, map, rare boo, and other special collections of enduring value. Review existing Library practices and analyze needs and establish policies and best practices for the long-term protection and access to digital materials of all types, both created by or acquired by the Special Collections and Archives Department. While the Department's focus has been on text and images, digital collections to be preserved bay also include data, audio-visual resources, Web pages and ephemera.
The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.
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This is a tenure-stream faculty position reporting to the Director of Archives & Special Collections (ASC). Duties for this critical position include leading efforts to preserve, describe, and provide access to born-digital archival and special collections materials; developing processes for archiving and preserving born-digital materials including email, Web sites, social media, and other digital primary materials acquired on a variety of current or legacy formats such as tape, floppy disks, hard drives, and mobile devices; acquiring and maintaining legacy hardware and software that may be necessary for providing access to digital materials; developing and documenting procedures (and building infrastructure) for the acquisition of born-digital collections and electronic records and for the routine migration of materials to maintain formatting compatibility with Libraries IT software and hardware; providing digital program development, guidance in best practices for data management, training and development for library personnel and campus departments as needed; and delivering born-digital content to external discovery and delivery mechanisms in collaboration with specialists in cataloging and metadata, information technology, and scholarly communications.
The Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library is recruiting an Associate Director, Creation & Curation Services.
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There are two teams for which ADCC has direct responsibility: 1) Digital Learning and Scholarship. As a highly technology-driven organization, the ADCC is the key strategic officer responsible for defining, driving and administering all technology-related programs and services of the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL). The associate director assesses the strategic IT trends and innovations that could impact library directions, develops innovative and cost-effective solutions, and administers a staff to implement the vision. The ADCC provides services appropriate to a library serving as a world-class academic research university, including: (a) the development of the Kelvin Smith Library's digital strategies; (b) management of the library's digital scholarly services (including the Freedman Center and the Statistics and GIS Data Center); (c) developing, implementing and managing reliable technologies systems and infrastructure (including the integrated library system, Digital Case, and locally-developed software); and, (d) the library website and other social media, and computer and networking hardware and software]. In addition, the ADCC serves as the primary KSL officer responsible for interaction and collaboration with University ITS on joint initiatives such as the visualization center, collaborative learning facilities, etc. In addition, work with other key university partners such as UCITE to develop innovative library solutions in the areas of teaching and research. 2) CWRU Scholarly Resources and Special Collections, including library special collections and university archives, and print and media preservation, digitization and curation services (e.g., research data management, repository services).
Clemson University Libraries are recruiting a National Parks Metadata Specialist.
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Responsible for creation, analysis, and workflow management of metadata and data structures for unique materials digitized through the Open Parks Network (OPN), a large-scale project funded through an IMLS National Leadership Grant. . .
This is a full-time, temporary 2-year appointment.
Rutgers University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian for Continuing Resources, Scholarship and Data.
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The individual will provide leadership, management, and strategic planning for bibliographic access to print and electronic continuing resources, scholarly papers and presentations, and research data in all formats, ensuring effective and accurate access to these resources in the library's catalog, institutional repository and forthcoming webscale discovery layer environments. This position will provide metadata for resources in the scholarly information cycle, from research data to scholarly articles and published journals
Washington and Lee University Library is recruiting an Associate University Librarian.
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Reporting to the University Librarian, the Associate University Librarian (AUL) works to advance the library's strategic agenda and foster a culture of collaboration and communication. The AUL provides library-wide leadership in budgeting, planning, assessment and management of information resources, metadata initiatives, discovery services, library systems, scholarly communication, and data management. The AUL will play a key role in improving collaborative user-focused information technology services that contribute to the success of W&L students, faculty, and staff through continuous evaluation of their impact and value in supporting the University's mission, its evolving academic programs, and user needs.
The Penn State University Libraries are recruiting a Publishing Services Web Developer.
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The University Libraries is seeking a Publishing Services Web Developer to assist in building a program of service within a relatively new unit, Publishing & Curation Services. Activities may include support for faculty grant-funded web-based projects, journal or other publishing technology support, Omeka pilot projects, the ongoing development of the Hydra/ScholarSphere services, exploration of portal environments for scholarly collaboration and sharing, and expansion of data curation services. The Web Developer will participate in development and integration of software and web functionality for a range of library applications in the areas of publishing and original digital collections creation. Will perform needs assessment, benchmarking, prototype design, review, troubleshooting, and maintenance of digital products.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a creative, forward-thinking, innovative individual for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) (http://cdla.unc.edu). The Digital Scholarship Librarian will provide sustainable and scalable services within the Library and on campus that facilitate the creation and dissemination of online digital content and new knowledge in digital form, focusing heavily on the humanities disciplines.
The successful candidate will bring a sense of inquisitiveness and strong problem-solving skills to the position, along with an aptitude for strategic thinking and sustainability planning, and a commitment to advancing the state of the art in digital scholarship in the humanities. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will manage a portfolio of digital scholarship (including digital humanities), digital collections, and library technology projects, in close collaboration with faculty, campus partners, and within the Library. Within the Library, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will actively partner with other CDLA staff, subject librarians, and staff from other Library departments such as Library and Information Technology and Special Collections.
The University of Houston Libraries are recruiting a Digital Operations Librarian.
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Reporting to the Head of Digital Services, the Digital Operations Librarian oversees day to day digitization activities of the Digital Services Department. The position coordinates with Special Collections, Metadata and Bibliographic Services, and other units to shepherd digital projects from inception to completion, and collaborates in the development of procedures and workflow for digital collections. The Digital Operations Librarian may also provide support to the Digital Collections Committee. The position supervises the work of 2 Digital Photograph Technicians, student workers and library student interns. The Digital Operations Librarian is a two year term appointment, with the potential for renewal.
The University of Kansas Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian.
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Reporting to the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Discovery Services, the Metadata Librarian is a member of the Metadata, Data, and Discovery Services department. The Metadata Librarian is oversees projects, workflow design and training involving metadata and use of metadata in digital repositories and other discovery systems. She/he works closely with colleagues in the Cataloging Department, the Distinctive Collections division and the Research and Learning division to support the discovery of and access to the Libraries’ digital content through metadata creation, analysis, enrichment, and maintenance in accordance with local and national cataloging and metadata standards. The Metadata Librarian is expected to provide consultation services for faculty on metadata and data in support of digital scholarship to enhance research, teaching, and learning at the University of Kansas.
The University of Kansas Libraries are recruiting a Data Services Librarian.
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Reporting to the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Discovery Services, the Data Services Librarian works in a team environment as a member of the Metadata, Data, and Discovery Services department and in close collaboration with colleagues in Research and Learning and other divisions to build, support, and help users with numeric data research collections; to market the use of data services to the university community including faculty and students; to provide specialized instruction, consultation and outreach services to a diverse campus; and to create new strategic services and programs that embed the work of the libraries into an environment of rapidly changing information technologies, and scholarly communication models with emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach. The Data Services Librarian also works closely with other specialists in KU Libraries who manage and analyze data, including Government Information, Geographic Information Systems, and Statistical Consulting.
