Category: Digital Library Jobs

The Florida International University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Media Librarian.

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Working within the department and with colleagues in Green Library (MMC) and Hubert Library (BBC), this librarian will have responsibility to:

• Acquire, coordinate, and manage video, audio, and image collections.
• Provide outreach services to the user community.
• Participate in the university-wide development and implementation of policies related to digital rights management, copyright, and intellectual property standards.
• Oversee the digitization of legacy media collections for both access and preservation.
• Participate in the university's development and implementation of streaming media services.

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The University of Virginia Library's Digital Curation Services department is offering a summer internship opportunity.

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The University of Virginia Library, a leader in the development of digital library initiatives and infrastructure and recognized for the strength and variety of its special collections, is excited to offer an eight-week summer internship to provide a graduate student with practical experience in both areas.

One of the primary caretakers responsible for the transformation of the Library's rare and unique materials to digital formats, as well as the stewardship of these images, Digital Curation Services, comprised of eight staff members and a dozen student employees, oversees several grants, multiple donor projects, user requests from faculty and students, and its own library collection building practices. In order to increase and create greater awareness of our digitized holdings, DCS is seeking an energetic and savvy individual to assist with grant writing and social media marketing.

| E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

The Boston College Law Library is recruiting a Digital Services and Institutional Repository Librarian.

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Reporting to the Associate Law Librarian for Access & Organization, the Digital Services and Institutional Repository Librarian leads the law school in the creation, delivery, preservation and on-going support of digital projects and collections in the broadest sense. This librarian will provide vision and guidance for the law school's digital repository that both responds to the law school community's needs and is aligned with collections and preservation priorities.

The Digital Services and Institutional Repository Librarian manages the law school's digital repository, a Digital Commons-based platform. The person in this position will continue the development of repository policies, procedures and services by staying current on developing technologies, standards, and practices in digital preservation. The Digital Services and Institutional Repository Librarian will engage with faculty and students to secure content and craft new partnerships. The Librarian will create promotional materials, actively advertise Digital Commons to the law school community and further develop the Digital Commons@Boston College Law School repository.

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The MIT Libraries are recruiting a Library Fellow for Scholarly Publishing and Licensing.

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Reporting to the Program Manager, Office of Scholarly Publishing and Licensing (OSPL), this position will work with staff within the Libraries as well as the wider MIT community. Activities include:

• Contribution to the work of the OSPL in the areas of copyright advocacy, intellectual property, open access, and rights retention;
• Participation in building a repository collection of open access papers under the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy;
• Examination and reporting on the effectiveness and impact of the Policy in the context of faculty publishing practices and publisher policies;
• Contribution to implementing the next generation technical infrastructure for managing open access workflows.

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The MIT Libraries are recruiting a Library Fellow for Digital Curation and Preservation.

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Reporting to the Head of Curation and Preservation Services, the activities of this position will span the full life-cycle of digital content management through collaboration with the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Specialized Content and Services, and structured interactions with other key units of the MIT Libraries. Activities include:

• Engagement in a range of activities related to the long-term management of digital content types (e.g., video, web content, architectural or other design documentation, geospatial), including the development of principles of good practice, development of selection criteria, determination of archival storage rules, and definition of digital object packaging;
• Contribution to monitoring prevailing community standards and practice for curation and preservation to enhance and extend life-cycle practice at the MIT Libraries;
• Development of outreach materials and guides to raise awareness about the benefits and challenges of curation and preservation;
• Initiation of an experiment to address a specific curation or preservation need.

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library is recruiting a Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a knowledgeable, resourceful, and collaborative individual for the position of Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will coordinate activities for the proposed, multi-year grant project, North Carolina Newspapers. In this project, the University Library will lead a collaborative effort with the North Carolina State Archives to digitize approximately 150 reels of microfilmed North Carolina newspapers in their entirety and make them available through the Library of Congress's Chronicling America website (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/).

Under the supervision of the grant's principal investigator at the University Library, the Project Librarian will coordinate the day-to-day operations of the North Carolina Newspapers project. The Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian will work to ensure microfilm selected for the project meets required technical specifications, and will prepare metadata on newspaper titles and reels selected for digitization. The Project Librarian will also create and maintain a database to track the movement of microfilm and digital files, and will oversee review of digital files received from digitization vendor.

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The Brown University Library is recruiting a Semantic Web Programmer/Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job #: B01403):

The Semantic Web Programmer/Developer is responsible for data ingest planning and execution for the VIVO semantic web application. Responsible for configuration of local extensions to the application ontology (data model) and for ongoing maintenance of ontology and data.

Develop and document scripts using XML and semantic web technologies to process data and metadata from institutional databases of record, online databases of publications, and research grant information, and other sources as identified by campus stakeholders.

| Digital Scholarship |

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research is recruiting a Director of Curation Services.

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The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) seeks to appoint a Director of Curation Services to maintain and develop a comprehensive approach to data management and digital preservation. The holder of this position will lead a team with responsibility for policy implementation and planning across the data lifecycle, including metadata standards, repository management, digital preservation, and compliance with standards (such as Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification).

| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog | Digital Scholarship |

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries are recruiting an Electronic Records Archivist.

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Reporting to the University Archivist and Head of University Archives and Records Management Services (UARMS), the Electronic Records Archivist will have a particular focus on the management, acquisition, appraisal, description, and preservation of born-digital institutional records with historical, evidential, or administrative value to the university. The Electronic Records Archivist will be responsible for supporting UNC faculty, students, and staff with information, training, and assistance in depositing digital materials into the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR), and for working with the CDR Steering Committee and with policy, programming, and other staff to define and implement repository policies, workflows, and capabilities.

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The Yale University Library is recruiting a Librarian for Digital Humanities Research.

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The Librarian for Digital Humanities Research will promote the advancement of the use of digital technologies and resources for humanities research, teaching, and intellectual engagement. Specific activities may include:

• Building digital collections as scholarly or teaching resources
• Using digital collections and analytical tools to generate new intellectual products
• Analyzing humanities collections, data, or research processes
• Offering digital humanities training
• Collaborating with other Yale digital research and teaching specialists
• Researching new digital humanities technologies and promoting them, as appropriate, to Yale faculty, students, and staff

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The Bates College Library is recruiting a Science Research & Data Librarian.

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Bates College seeks nominations and applications for an innovative and proactive Science Research & Data Librarian. Reporting to the Associate Librarian for Research Services, this librarian shares a broad range of liaison-oriented activities with the other user-oriented professionals in the unit, including general and specialized research services, individual research consultations, group instruction, and collection development and management. This individual serves as a research partner, an instructional consultant, and a frequent point of contact to a diverse group of faculty and students on informational needs in the sciences and on issues of data management. This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to play a key role in shaping Bates College's involvement in e-science, digital data curation and standards in the science division and in other parts of the college.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries are recruiting a Head of Kenan Science Information Services.

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Leading a team of librarians, this person oversees the operation of the Kenan Science Library, provides coordination for science information services and vision for the development of new, innovative approaches to e-science and data management. Additionally, the Head of Kenan Science Information Services will collaborate with staff in the Health Sciences Library to build strong interdisciplinary science collections and services, especially those supporting data intensive and team based science involving the biomedical sciences.

| E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

The University of Colorado Boulder is recruiting a Sr. Professional Research Assistant in Digital Curation.

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During his/her appointment as a digital curation researcher, the person hired will: 1) curate an original or collaborative project on campus; 2) make occasional campus presentations about the subject of digital curation and its value across disciplines; 3) conduct a graduate seminar, open to graduate students from multiple disciplines, surveying research and best practices within the field of digital curation; and 4) advise faculty and administrators on the development of curriculum in the field of digital curation.

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

The University of North Texas Libraries are recruiting an IT Programmer Analyst II.

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This position will implement and refine digital preservation software systems and solutions in collaboration with extended project teams at multiple institutions, develop and deploy a suite of tools, services, and workflows for the curation and preservation of selected digital materials, test and refine all project programming developments, install, maintain and upgrade computer software on workstations and servers for purposes of research and development, and provide assistance to project staff and partners as appropriate for computer support of project-related research and development. Other duties and tasks will be assigned and completed accordingly.

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Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Library is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job ID: 900141):

The Digital Projects Librarian is responsible for creating, managing and maintaining the digital initiatives focused primarily on the Bridwell Library Special Collections. These initiatives include digitization of special collections materials and participating in the creating of online exhibitions.

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The Brown University Library is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job number: B01399):

The Digital Library Programmer manages the library's Fedora implementation and other digital collection management tools; develops the digital repository environment in accordance with the Open Archive Information System reference model; administers the repository's overall architecture; develops, maintains and integrates Institutional Repository tools with Fedora; implements authentication methods in conjunction with Computing and Information Services (CIS).

| Institutional Repository Bibliography | Digital Scholarship Publications Overview |

The Ohio State University Libraries are recruiting a Publishing Production Coordinator.

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Serves as a member of the Libraries' Scholarly Resources Integration Department, which manages the Knowledge Bank (OSU's digital institutional repository) and the Libraries' open access publishing program. Supports the department head and the publishing program manager in all aspects of publishing production and promotion. Oversees publishing and supports development of new publications; manages details of digital publishing, applies for ISSNs, domain name renewals, and archives past publications in the repository. Supports partners in use of publishing software. Uses web skills to customize and improve the user interface of the Open Journal Systems software.

| E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Technologies Development Librarian.

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The Digital Technologies Development Librarian provides technical leadership and hands-on programming expertise for a portfolio of digital library projects. In close collaboration with technical and non-technical partners across the Libraries, she or he identifies emerging technologies that have potential for new and improved library services. Working both independently and in team settings, the incumbent develops functional prototypes of new digital library services through an iterative, data-informed, and test-driven process that emphasizes performance, sustainability, and usability. The Digital Technologies Development Librarian maintains and provides enhancements to existing digital library applications and collaborates closely with Information Technology staff to develop and maintain supporting infrastructure.

| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

The Indiana University Data to Insight Center is seeking applicants for a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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The Indiana University (IU) Data to Insight Center, a part of the IU Pervasive Technology Institute and the IU University Libraries, is offering a two-year CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship. The Fellow will be based organizationally within the Data to Insight Center but will focus on collaborative initiatives between D2I and the IU Libraries. These include cornerstone research projects of the center such as the National Science Foundation-funded DataNet SEAD (Sustainable Environment-Actionable Data) Virtual Archive, the HathiTrust Research Center, and our Sloan funded work on non-consumptive research methodologies. This fellowship will work on projects that will provide direct experience in non-consumptive research methodologies, policies, principles, and applied tools for data curation and management and involvement in novel applications of data provenance management, as well as working with tools and methods for mass-scale data mining.

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010: "If you're looking for a reading list that will keep you busy from now until the end of time, this is your one-stop shop for all things digital preservation."— "Digital Preservation Reading List," Preservation Services at Dartmouth College weblog, February 21, 2012. | Digital Scholarship |

Harvard University's Peabody Museum is recruiting a Museum Manager (Archivist).

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Develops and implements procedures to increase preservation and access to the collections. Proposes and manages digital initiatives and manages digital archive. Manages and carries out the day-to-day activities in the Peabody Museum's Archives Department including working with staff and researchers to access the archival photographic and paper collections.

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The University of Florida Libraries are recruiting an Imaging Supervisor.

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This position is responsible for supervision and daily operations of the main imaging queue, requiring independent decision-making to assure critical workflows function properly and capacity levels are maximized. In the absence of the Operations Manager, this position interacts with customers and makes project level decisions as needed. It is a key position in Digital Library Center main production queue, and responsible for the coordination and management of a high volume of scanning materials with varying technical requirements.

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The University of Northern Colorado Libraries are recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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This position is responsible for the coordination and management of the Libraries' digital initiatives, in particular the University of Northern Colorado's digital repository, Digital UNC [library.unco.edu/digitalunc]. Digital UNC, a Fedora-based repository with a Drupal-based user interface, is UNC's implementation of the collaboratively developed Alliance Digital Repository [adrresources.coalliance.org].

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