Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of Richmond Library is recruiting an Integrated Library Systems Administrator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 501284):

The Integrated Library Systems Administrator is a service-oriented position responsible for managing all aspects of ILS and discovery layer technology in the libraries and for integrating ILS and discovery layer technology into the libraries services and workflows. The Integrated Library Systems Administrator collaborates with relevant library and IS units in long-term strategic planning for the ongoing development of digital technologies, evaluating the implications of adopting new technologies and how they can be leveraged to move liberal arts college libraries forward.

Digital Antiquity in Arizona State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is recruiting a Digital Library Software Engineer. Salary: $60,000-$80,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job id: 24530):

Digital Antiquity seeks a creative and innovative Software Engineer to assist in the development of a national digital repository for archaeological documents and data. Digital Antiquity is a national, multi-institutional effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and based at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. This exciting initiative provides an excellent career opportunity in software development and is a unique, real-world opportunity to develop research tools that will transform archaeology with cutting-edge technology.

Digital Antiquity's repository, tDAR (The Digital Archaeological Record) is built using common J2EE and open-source components including: Struts 2, Hibernate, Spring, Postgres, and JQuery.

The Bentley University Library is recruiting a Special Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: FY10131224):

The Special Projects Librarian is responsible for proposing and managing a variety of new projects in the library, such as designing and implementing a digital archives collection, exploring and potentially implementing a plan for copyright-compliant off-campus streaming of videos, exploring and doing analyses of Innovative's evolving product line, piloting an e-books/e-textbooks initiative, etc.

S/he serves as a standing member of the Bentley Library User Experience (BLUE) group, working closely with the Assistant Manager of Reference to further digital and online initiatives that require a more significant time commitment than BLUE team members can reasonably be expected to make. Of course, s/he will also work closely with and rely on both full-time and student Library Services, Reference, and Technical Services staff to ensure the timely completion of projects, and keep the Library Director apprised of progress, opportunities, and obstacles to be overcome.

The Digital Library of Georgia is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian/Archivist. Salary: entry-level minimum $38,000; commensurate with experience.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Projects Librarian/Archivist is responsible for metadata and authority control, student hiring and supervision, quality control, and other duties related to the development of digital resources for Digital Library of Georgia initiatives including but not limited to the federally supported Civil Rights Digital Library and the forthcoming ASERL Civil War era digital library portal being created through a partnership with 32 Southeastern research libraries. The Digital Projects Librarian/Archivist reports to the Associate Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and works as a member of the DLG's Metadata and Site Development unit.

The Snell Library at Northeastern University is recruiting a Digital Library Developer.

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As part of a new Digital Library Management department, the Digital Library Developer will develop and maintain the core technical infrastructure for a comprehensive digital library/repository service. The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues in the Libraries and in Information Services and will play a leading role in designing the primary architecture, workflows and applications for Northeastern's digital repository service.

Typical duties include: working with open-source and commercial applications to develop an OAIS compliant infrastructure that supports the ingestion, storage/preservation, and distribution of digital assets. The Digital Library Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying new technologies, tools and resources to extend and enhance digital content and services, developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate multiple submission and access pathways; and collaborating with IS colleagues to implement appropriate identity management and authentication policies.

Information & Learning Services at the University of Salford is recruiting a Metadata & Repository Officer. Salary: £25,001-£28,983.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Metadata and Repository Officer will be responsible for making learning and research resources available, irrespective of format or media, via the Library Management System and the Digital Repository. The post holder will maintain the quality and integrity of these library systems, contribute to the formation of procedures and workflows and participate in the delivery of user support. A proactive approach and commitment to collaborative working will be essential. The culture and ethos of the post is directed towards customer service.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries are recruiting a Digital Collections Metadata Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This faculty position, reporting to the Digitization Projects Librarian, is responsible for providing leadership for metadata creation and management in the face of changing standards, user expectations, and tools. The incumbent will be expected to work collaboratively in the planning and implementation of metadata provision for digital resources; including the selection of metadata schema, data elements, thesauri, and development of crosswalks. The incumbent will lead the formulation and documentation of Libraries' policies, procedures, and best practices for metadata use and will be responsible for training of metadata staff and the management of metadata workflows, including assisting with migration and/or harvesting of data between systems.

The University of Connecticut Libraries are recruiting a Computer Programmer Analyst II.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Connecticut Libraries is seeking an Applications Developer. As a member of the Digital Programs Team and under the direction of the Digital Programs Team Leader, the Applications Developer provides programming support for UConn's local digital collections workflows, including data-driven planning, capture, metadata handling, efficient and effective discovery tools, and enabling archival master file storage toward a trusted digital repository, all conformant with the best practices of cultural heritage and higher education institutions. The incumbent provides programming, research, and development for digital collections, so that the UConn Libraries can fulfill related strategic objectives in support of the University's Academic Plan. Within a project management environment, the Applications Developer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services. With growing collections of diverse digital content, including text, maps and geospatial data, photographs, and other information objects, the next level of growth for UConn will be significant progress toward semantically integrating these resources by means of creative-yet standards-compliant-applications, which the incumbent will play a critical role in developing. The incumbent is responsible for creating applications and for assisting others in developing and implementing Web resources and services that are well integrated into the current information server environment.

The Applications Developer works with the Digital Projects Librarian, the Digital Integration Librarian, the Preservation Librarian, the Libraries' Webmaster, and the IT team to provide customized tools for creating and managing collection and access services in the University of Connecticut Libraries and to provide leadership in the collaborative process to develop innovative access and delivery of the Libraries' digital resources.

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is recruiting a Head of the Max Planck Digital Library (two-year contract with subsequent tenure consideration).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

As head of the MPDL, you will be responsible for all system-wide information services and the strategic positioning of the MPG in the arena of eResearch, scientific information management and scholarly communication. It is essential that all concepts and developments under your management will be based on maximum responsiveness to the requirements of our researchers and institutes including their individual libraries and IT groups. The MPDL is already involved in many high-level initiatives both on the national and international level. It will be part of your role to further elaborate this strategy and to ensure best effectiveness both for MPDL and MPG. You will report directly to the Executive Board of the Max Planck Society; and the operations of MPD

The J. Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University is recruiting an Archivist For Metadata & Encoding (Digital Archivist).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist is a member of the Special Collections Department and reports to the Assistant Director for Special Collections. The Digital Archivist will develop, in collaboration with other staff, internal encoding standards and evaluate and deploy software for use in encoding; work to ensure the online accessibility of finding aids through the design of the end-user interface and navigation for the EAD repository; coordinate training for Special Collections staff involved in the creation of EAD finding aids; work with Special Collections staff to select collections for digitization, taking into account factors such as scholarly impact, fragility of materials, copyright, and privacy; and maintain and expand the Special Collections Department Website using emerging web technologies and best practices that serve a growing online user community. The Digital Archivist will co-chair the Metadata Advisory Group, which will develop guidelines for metadata creation, identify core elements common to all projects, set standards for levels of detail and granularity for individual projects and repositories, and serve as consultants to the Metadata Librarian and metadata providers.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is recruiting a Systems Administrator-Digital Project Development.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (Job ID #: 603):

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking a Systems Administrator to lead the implementation of new national and international projects as well as maintain and enhance all existing library web-based, digital and electronic projects; Assist with the development and maintenance of new and existing proprietary and non-proprietary databases; perform server level duties and support the library’s hardware and software needs; Work and coordinate with the IT department to maintain system functionality and integrity;

Participate in all Library and Archives digitization projects and act as a liaison with the IT department, our bioinformatics scientific community and external collaborators.

The Toronto Public Library is recruiting a Manager, Digitization and Preservation. Salary: $77,240.80-$95,804.80.

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Toronto Public Library seeks a creative and highly motivated leader to manage its active and growing Preservation and Digitization Services Department. The position is suited to an individual with demonstrated and successful experience in library digitization, and an understanding of the requirements for the preservation of special and rare collections.

Under the general direction of the Manager, Special Collections, Archives and Digital Collections, the successful candidate will manage the daily operations and lead a team of 10.4 FTEs which includes a department head, digital technicians, professional conservators, and other support staff.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in digital initiatives and knowledge of current best practices in digitization, metadata, storage, workflows, and management of digital assets, as well a familiarity with special collections materials, and collection preservation practices and strategies.

The California Digital Library is recruiting a Programmer Analyst III.

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You are a programmer interested in being part of a team envisioning and building the next generation of library discovery & delivery services. You thrive on dividing your time between programming and analysis. You have the ability to understand and troubleshoot flows between existing core Discovery and Delivery systems and to understand how metadata is mapped and transformed as it travels between discovery and delivery systems. You seek out innovative ways to continually improve interactive library systems. You have a high degree of technical competence to perform analysis and QA autonomously. You are deeply and creatively engaged with the digital library domain and a champion for users. You want to work on:

• Multi-campus systems
• Large datasets
• Collaborative projects with partners such as Google, Internet Archive, the Hathi Trust and other digital libraries

The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Project Librarian for the Beaux-Arts to Modernism Project (one-year position). Salary: $50,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the temporary position of Digital Project Librarian for the Beaux-Arts to Modernism Project. The NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center is building an innovative, multidimensional special collections program in support of research and teaching at the university. The Center has been awarded a grant to create an online resource of North Carolina’s historic architecture materials from the Beaux-Arts to Modernism period (ca. 1900 – 1940).

Responsibilities: The Digital Project Librarian serves as coordinator for a grant-funded project to create digital surrogates of unique and rare primary source materials. Work will be performed at NC State and at offsite locations. The incumbent manages production workflow, trains and supervises student assistants, scans architectural drawings and photographs, oversees image quality control, and creates and reviews metadata. The Digital Project Librarian develops the project’s website and serves as facilitator for usability studies. He or she works in a highly collaborative process with colleagues in the Center and throughout the Libraries to create an innovative, sustainable, and accessible online resource. NCSU librarians are expected to be active professionally and to contribute to developments in the field. Reports to the Digital Program Librarian for Special Collections.

The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library at Cleveland State University is recruiting a Digital Content Services/Reference Services Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 0600246):

Provides research, reference and instructional services to a diverse group of patrons and staff. Organizes and provides access to materials in a variety of formats, with emphasis on electronic and visual resources. Develops, manages and organizes Law Library digital content programs, including special collections projects, College of Law publications archive, and College of Law Institutional Scholarship Repository.

The Pepperdine University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Library Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 10001471):

Manage digital production workflow for Pepperdine's Digital Library; develop workflow to support and manage ingestion of digital content into both long term archiving and access systems (CONTENTdm) and short-term delivery systems (iTunes University, other web-based media); contribute to digital projects and initiatives; work with librarians and faculty to define and prioritize digitization projects; set standards for and participate in digitization and metadata creation; develop initiatives to assess and improve digital library services; promote use of digital collections through classroom demonstrations, training for faculty and staff, in meetings, and at professional conferences; participate in the library's extensive digital literacy and knowledge navigation program; provide excellent public service to all students, faculty, and staff; supervise student workers; perform other duties as assigned.

The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Director, Digital Scholarship and Publishing.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Director of the Digital Scholarship and Publishing leads a dynamic program that engages faculty, staff, and students in initiatives to maximize the dissemination and impact of the university's scholarship and knowledge resources. In this highly visible position, the incumbent provides guidance to the NC State community on scholarly communication matters. The Director serves as a resource on local and national policy to help the university community stay informed and involved with the changing landscape for scholarly work and publication. The incumbent works in close consultation with the university’s Office of General Counsel, Copyright Committee, Provost’s office, and Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications unit (DELTA). He or she collaborates with colleagues throughout the Libraries, providing leadership for digital scholarship and publishing initiatives, and guidance on fair use and other copyright issues related to library collections and services. He or she participates in library planning and serves on library-wide and university committees, task forces, and teams. NCSU Librarians are expected to be active professionally and to contribute to developments in the field. Reports to the Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication.

The University of Michigan Library is recruiting a Copyright Specialist (two-year term appointment).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University and the University Library are seeking a dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented individual for the position of Copyright Specialist. Reporting to the Lead Copyright Officer, the successful candidate will assist in the development of guidance, policy, and advocacy on copyright issues to the University and Library communities. This may include contributing to guidance on the copyright aspects of the Library's scholarly communications and digital collections initiatives, on copyright use in classroom teaching and technology, online courses, distance education, and electronic course reserves, and providing and helping to develop regular educational workshops for the campus community. The Copyright Specialist will help to support efforts to re-conceive the academic research library as a key partner in new modes of scholarly communication. This position does not provide legal advice.

Reporting to the Lead Copyright Officer, the Copyright Specialist is a full-time position (1.0 FTE) for a period of two years. The ideal candidate will work closely with the Lead Copyright Officer to develop services and programs for the UM community. This is an entry-level librarian position and rank is anticipated at the Assistant Librarian level.

The Copyright Specialist will help develop copyright policy for the Library and work closely with a number of important UM Library collections and scholarly communication initiatives, including the Library's ongoing partnership with Google Book Search, the Hathi Trust Digital Library (http://hathitrust.org), Deep Blue (the UM institutional repository, http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu), the Scholarly Publishing Office (http://www.lib.umich.edu/spo), the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), to identify works whose copyrights have expired so their digital facsimiles can be made publicly available, and natural language processing initiatives.

The Copyright Specialist will help develop and present workshops, websites, consultations, etc., intended to help members of the campus community to understand and apply both fair use and other principles of copyright, as well as the process to obtain permission to use others' works, when necessary.

The Swarthmore College Library is recruiting a Library Applications Programmer. Salary: minimum of $3,651/month.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position works in a team-oriented environment to administer, support and enhance the library technology infrastructure of the Tri-College Libraries Consortium (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). The incumbent will be responsible for designing, implementing and testing the Tri-College Libraries' digital services, including integration of information search and retrieval across multiple applications; developing tools for digital content creation, access, and delivery; and administrative tools for library staff. The incumbent will supervise a systems-oriented intern position. Along with the intern, the incumbent will support core information systems for the Tri-College Libraries, including the integrated library system, inter-library loan/document delivery software and systems, digital asset management systems, institutional repositories, and other centrally-served technologies. The position will also actively explore new library technologies and tools for possible use by the Consortium.

The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting a Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management—Library Scholarly Commons (full-time, temporary academic professional appointment with possible renewal up to 3 years; may become permanent at a later date).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

In this position the Library seeks a professional with a strong background in technical development in a digital library environment or with Web-based applications involving the manipulation, organization and delivery of digital image content. Candidates should have a firm grasp of the principles of information organization and management. The focus of responsibility for the person who steps into this role will be to provide technical and program support for the development of campus-wide digital visual resource collections in support of the learning and research activities of campus academic units. The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will report to the Library's lead research programmer for digital repository development and will work closely with the head of Digital Content Creation and with Library staff involved with metadata creation. The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will collaborate with staff in the Office of Library Information Technology Planning and Policy responsible for workstation maintenance and server system administration and will be a member of the Library's Digital Content Access team which draws members from multiple Library organizational units., The Visiting Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will develop and support the information processing and digital object workflows needed to make digitized library content accessible through – and integrated with—public search systems as well as digital content access management systems, including ContentDM and ARTstor. The University of Illinois Library is a development partner, along with eight other academic institutions, in the ArtStor Shared Shelf visual resource cataloging and management system. Working with a team of librarians, curators, and faculty, the Research Programmer for Visual Resource Access and Management will be responsible for ingest of local and commercially-licensed digital content into ArtStor, and help represent the Library at ARTstor shared-shelf development meetings. This position may interact with users or groups in the Library’s Scholarly Commons, a new library space for faculty and graduate students to explore the use of technology in their research and teaching. Further interactions may involve the College of FAA Visual Resources Curator and the librarians and staff of the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art.

Incumbent will have primary technical responsibility for the Library's CONTENTdm implementation, which currently provides access to about 20 locally digitized collections and more than 25,000 digital images. The Library's CONTENTdm implementation is under active development and extension with new collections being added or in development and with new software being integrated alongside CONTENTdm to extend its functionality. While the primary focus of this position is on digital visual resources, the incumbent also may be called on to provide technical support for making available Library digitized text resources (e.g., Project Unica, Harry Partch Archive) through the development, running, and troubleshooting of content processing scripts.

The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting a Visiting Research Programmer for Scholarly Communications and Repository Services (full-time, temporary academic professional appointment with possible renewal up to 3 years; may become permanent at a later date).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Library is moving forward to implement a library-wide repository to preserve and manage created and acquired digital content and to expand its scholarly communication services to campus. Led by the Scholarly Communications and Repository Technical Team with close collaboration with key stakeholders within the Library and across campus, this effort will result in a scalable preservation repository, defined interactions with external partners such as the Hathi Trust, and the infrastructure necessary for sustained scholarly communication services, such as an institutional bibliography and scholarship portal, data curation tools, and researcher profiles.

As a member of this team, the Visiting Research Programmer for Scholarly Communication and Repository Services (SCRS) reports to the Technical Architect for Scholarly Communication and Repositories Services (TA) and participates fully in the planning and implementation of the repository effort and in particular to the development of technical services and applications to support the scholarly communication services of the Library. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing programming, database design, implementation and support, customization, and continued assessment of the technical infrastructure for all components related to scholarly communication services. These would include development of the repository itself. The SCRS Research Programmer works with staff from the Library and other key campus personnel to translate user needs into technical requirements and implement these in concert with the development of the repository. The SCRS Research Programmer explores, adapts, and implements emerging technologies to support efforts such as analysis of publication patterns on campus, understanding impact of research done at Illinois, and understanding collaboration patterns across campus. The SCRS Research Programmer works closely with the Scholarly Commons coordinator, the IDEALS coordinator, and the Head of Grainger to provide support to existing services, such as IDEALS, the campus repository, and the electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) service.

Specific activities include: 1) implementation and support of a planned digital repository to provide sustained access and preservation services to millions of digital files in the University Library’s growing digital research collections; and 2) the development of software applications that support the research and scholarly communications services that are being developed and refined through a collaboration of librarians involved in the current IDEALS Scholarly Communications Program, the Scholarly Commons in the Main Library, and the Grainger Engineering Library’s Digital Library Initiative. Several applications already exist in pilot mode, but they will require concentrated and sustained technical effort to make them production-level systems that can support campus-wide use. These include the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Deposit service (ETD’s), in collaboration with the Graduate College; the BibApp research connections software system; the Researcher Profiles system that enables the Library to create customized research information portals for research groups; and the Hub and Spoke toolkit for creating digital preservation packages for repository ingest. This position is vital to the Library’s nascent efforts to support the ongoing curation of researcher-created datasets throughout the campus and to help fulfill campus obligations to emerging federal agency requirements for data management, curation, and open access.