The University of Rhode Island Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 6000248):

• Provide leadership in the management of the University of Rhode Island's digital repository (currently DigitalCommons@URI) and technical expertise to continue development and enhancements.
• Coordinate with library subject liaisons, Technical Services Dept staff, Information Technology Svs (ITS) staff, and other members of the University community to enhance access to the University's scholarly communications and publications within the digital repository.
• Formulate policies and procedures for the production, management, and preservation of digital content and metadata, technical workflow, quality control, and intellectual property issues.
• Provide training and outreach to the campus community about digital initiatives and DigitalCommons@URI.
• Actively seek out new user communities and content for the digital repository.
• Provide leadership and vision in planning and implementing future digital library development.
• Provide ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of library digital services through data gathering and analysis.
• Plan and coordinate the preservation of and ongoing access to digitized and born-digital materials curated by the library.
• Work with IT staff and users of campus-wide applications to integrate library digital collections into these services, e.g., Sakai.
• Anticipate future trends in an evolving digital environment and maintain current awareness of national and international developments affecting knowledge management, metadata, and information retrieval; articulate to campus community.
• Identify grant opportunities and work collaboratively to create proposals in support of digital collections.
• Work as a member of the Technical Services Department and reports to the Dean.

The Portland State University Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives/Metadata Librarian. Salary minimum of $61,320.

Here's the ad:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Humanities Research Associate.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Research Computing unit at UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking a Humanities Research Associate to provide technical leadership to spearhead our engagement with faculty researchers in the humanities. This position will be a technical contributor and a partner in defining, implementing and supporting technologies to advance humanities research at UNC-Chapel Hill. The research associate will provide programming and technical expertise in areas such as text encoding and metadata standards, database design and queries, software development, web programming, and digital project design. Possible initial projects include implementing and supporting the use of SEASR for text and data mining; developing document databases based on XML and XML tools; and assembling collections of open-source tools and development environments to advance digital humanities projects.

The Florida Gulf Coast University Library is recruiting a Digital Projects, Assistant/Associate Librarian. Salary: $42,000, negotiable.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Your initial assignment will address the growing need for digital collection creation and maintenance within the Library. Major responsibilities of this position are to establish and maintain the FGCU Library's Institutional Repository, focusing initially on capturing and archiving the university's electronic archival materials; planning, organizing, and completing image digitization or sound file creation and resource description for items in the library's special collections; and establishing the library's electronic theses program in coordination with Graduate Affairs. This librarian will also be responsible for ensuring the safety of the physical holdings of the archives and special collections and any loaned materials intended for digitization, as well as, ensuring that archival-level preservation techniques are used. This librarian will be expected to work closely with staff at the Florida Center for Library Automation, with Library Systems staff, with other librarians and faculty, and with Administrative Services staff responsible for Records Management.

The San Diego History Center is recruiting a Project Manager/Cataloger.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This is a professional position requiring a high level of skill and competency and the ability to work with limited supervision and make duty-related decisions. The Project Manager/Cataloger will perform a variety of duties in order to achieve the goals stated in an IMLS-funded project, namely, to digitize, catalog and make available over 7,000 images from the E.H. Davis Collection of American Indian images. The project Manager/Cataloger will be responsible for planning the project, ensuring that milestones are met, writing reports, doing research, and cataloging photographs and drawings from the E.H. Davis Collection in collaboration with members of the local American Indian Community as well as scholars. SDHC also plans to invite social tagging of the newly-created collection records via the web. The Project Manger/Cataloger will work on the social tagging dimension in coordination with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This will be a full-time position for a period of 18 months.

In case you missed the tweets, here are jobs from 7/20/10-8/20/10 during the DigitalKoans blog hiatus.

• Technology Specialist [OHIONET] http://icio.us/xwugy4 #
• Head, Library Systems and Technical Services [Rowan University] http://icio.us/ulh4it #
• Library Web Developer/Designer [Princeton University, requisition # 1000633 ] http://icio.us/gxxhsu #
• Library Systems and Web Services Specialist [Roger Williams University] http://icio.us/souqiv #
• Metadata Librarian [National Institute of Standards and Technology, digital projects] http://icio.us/exeqyv #
• Digital Assets Manager [Portland Art Museum] http://icio.us/sy3heb #
• Imaging Production Supervisor [ARTstor] http://icio.us/3yixln #
• Integrated Library Services Coordinator [University of Maryland-College Park] http://icio.us/wbirrc #
• Digital Law Librarian [LAC Group, New York, NY] http://icio.us/kzbsk5 #
• Sr. Applications Systems Analyst [Getty Research Institute] http://icio.us/rcudf1 #
• Digital Services Librarian [Johnson & Wales University, RI, req. # 1841] http://icio.us/534cg5 #
• Library Systems Administrator [Christopher Newport University] http://icio.us/vzh0cp #
• Systems Librarian [Oak Ridge National Laboratory] http://icio.us/v5u52a #
• IT Specialist (Internet) [Smithsonian Institution] http://icio.us/s2favb #
• Automated Systems Manager [La Porte County Public Library] http://icio.us/5c0fvc #
• Assistant/Associate Librarian (Web Services) [Grand Valley State University Libraries] http://icio.us/fx3s1f #
• Web Developer (Computer Systems Analyst) | Great River Regional Library http://icio.us/oalgwc #
• Web Designer/Developer [Columbia University Libraries Digital Program, Requisition # 059340] http://icio.us/ly2mjj #
• Digital Content Production Manager [Scholars Portal] http://icio.us/syg03x #
• Director, University Libraries Enterprise Technology [University of Minnesota Libraries] http://icio.us/wovmww #
• Information Technology Analyst—Web Developer [Syracuse University Library, job # 026573] http://icio.us/bodtnv #
• Senior Software Engineer [University of Virginia Library, Posting Number: 0605482] http://icio.us/jo1wlr #
• Systems Development Librarian [University of Tennessee Libraries] http://icio.us/lyxulh #
• Web Services and Documents Librarian [University of South Carolina Aiken] http://icio.us/ebchqq #
• Head of Science Collections and Scholarly Communication [University of Georgia] http://icio.us/r4jlze
• Web Developer [Boston College Libraries] http://icio.us/reicgl
• Scholarly Communications Librarian [Boston College] http://icio.us/taxck5
• Co-Director, Harvard Law Library Digital Lab http://icio.us/22ek1s
• Digitization Archivist and Education Project Coordinator [Brooklyn Historical Society] http://icio.us/n4zkl3
• Digital Services Librarian [Olin College] http://icio.us/hplnpo
• Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian [University of Wisconsin La Crosse] http://icio.us/xivhsa
• Emerging Technologies Librarian [NASA Langley Technical Library] http://icio.us/1mkeqq #
• Technology Librarian [Dexter District Library] http://icio.us/frhidf #
• Consultant for COILS [Colleges of Ontario Integrated Library System Group] http://icio.us/3ei2ce #
• Digital Projects Specialist [Univ. of California, Irvine, Req No.: 2010-0316] http://icio.us/wihi02 #
• Senior Assistant Librarian Repository and Digital Media Management [Birkbeck College, University of London] http://icio.us/3nntwq #
• Emerging Library Technologies Specialist [University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center] http://icio.us/ngtdhq #
• Associate University Librarian, Library and Learning Technology [McMaster University] http://icio.us/2vklt0 #
• Systems Librarian [University of La Verne] http://icio.us/4imklm #
• Vermont Digital Newspaper Project Librarian [University of Vermont, Requisition Number 033592] http://icio.us/mybhux #
• Director, Online Library Environment [Univ. of Virginia, Posting 0602481] http://icio.us/xjwoiv #
• Web Services Librarian [Commonwealth Medical College] http://icio.us/ioij1v #
• Information Technologist I [Michigan State Univ., posting 3991] http://icio.us/uodskz #
• Applications Technician [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] http://icio.us/ijb1nv #
• Systems Librarian, University of Texas at San Antonio Library http://icio.us/504lcq #
• Systems Coordinator [Gwinnett County Public Library] http://icio.us/etv0et #
• Associate University Librarian for Information Resources and Technology [Old Dominion University Libraries] http://icio.us/dwnnuw #
• Head of Digital Programs [Amherst College] http://icio.us/lf1j3e #
• Historic Map Digitization Specialist [Stanford University] http://icio.us/m3fokb #
• Web Development Specialist [The University of Akron] http://icio.us/qflr04 #
• Digital Resource Support Specialist [Reed College] http://icio.us/li0qq3 #
• Digital Collection/Metadata Librarian [LAC Group] http://icio.us/u0b3cm #
• Systems Administrator [Washington Research Library Consortium] http://icio.us/otfrrp #

Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library is recruiting a Technology Services Head.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Guide assessment of existing and emerging library and information technologies. Lead project and implementation planning for library technologies. Provide coordination and programmatic guidance for the library technology services group (LTS), a multi-unit team, comprised of members from the University Libraries and Information Services & Technology. The LTS plans, deploys and supports a wide range of digital systems and services, including an integrated library system, WorldCat Local, link resolver, federated search software, institutional repository, search and discovery services, library web development, interlibrary loan system, proxy server, and staff desktop support. Collaborate with administrators, department heads and managers throughout all the University libraries and Information Services and Technology to adapt library services to the changing needs of faculty, researchers, and graduate students of Boston University and work with senior managers on the Library's other two teams, the Graduate & Research Services and Undergraduate & Distance Services to implement initiatives consistent with the Libraries’ strategic plan.

Boston University's Mugar Memorial Library is recruiting an Institutional Repository Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Manage the Boston University Digital Common, Boston University’s institutional repository, including oversight of the repository, coordination with the Information Services and Technology (IS&T) staff that provides primary systems support for the hardware and software, outreach to faculty, content recruitment, documentation, publicity materials, training and supervision of support staff, and developing assessment measures for the repository's impact. Work with the Institutional Repository Steering Committee and with other staff to define and implement repository policies, workflows, and capabilities and with the AUL and IS&T staff to develop effective digital preservation policies and procedures. Responsible for ensuring that the Digital Common programs align with the needs of the BU community and that BU faculty, students, and staff are aware of and know how to utilize BU Digital Common services. Collaborate with the other department heads and managers on the Digital Initiatives & Open Access Team and with senior managers on the Library’s other two teams, the Graduate & Research Services and Undergraduate & Distance Services, to implement initiatives consistent with the Library's strategic plan.

The Texas Tech University Libraries are recruiting two Virtual Library R&D Librarians.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position reports to the Lead of the Library Technology Management and Services Research and Development Team. The position ensures maximum interoperability of applied virtual library systems, solutions, data, metadata, etc., while engaging in innovative virtual library research efforts, including relevant assessment activities, and may coordinate virtual library development efforts. The position also engages in strategic partnering and collaborations across traditional and non-traditional boundaries, and engages in relevant scholarly pursuit and other professional activities and service in accordance with Texas Tech Library’s standards for promotion and tenure.

The Dartmouth College Library is recruiting a Head of Digital Media and Library Technologies.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 0031700):

Provides leadership for the administration, planning, implementation, and assessment of the Library's information technology and media services. . . .

• Provides leadership and strategic direction to the Jones Media Center.
• Provides leadership and strategic direction to the Digital Library Technologies Group who is responsible for the development, installation, operation, and maintenance of the technologies supporting the Digital Library. . . .
• Oversees the Library's integrated Library system.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries are recruiting a Coordinator II (two-year appointment).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Grant Manager will coordinate the Tennessee Digital Newspaper Program, and NEH grant-funded program which will digitize newspapers published in Tennessee between 1836 and 1922. The Libraries, the College of Communication and Information and Tennessee State Libraries and Archives are working together on this project. The Grant Manager administers the two year grant working closely with information professionals across the State of Tennessee. The Grant Manager will develop time lines for project completion and coordinate projects activities.

The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the University Archivist, the DCA manages AUC’s Digital Archive and Research Repository (DSpace-based) including supervising all digital holdings (photographs, video, audio files), setting standards for digital preservation and metadata, providing training for staff, collaborating on development, policies, and storage space matters for the repository with other university units, managing the ingest of electronic theses, dissertations (ETDs) and faculty publications and coordinating policies and procedures with academic administration, computing, student affairs and other university units.

The position also oversees the encoding of archival finding aids (XML, EAD), creates MARC records using Innovative Interfaces Millenium Metadata Builder, manages ArchiveIt subscription service, the RBSCL’s website, news blog, online subject guides, and social media sites. There will also be opportunities to collaborate on fundraising efforts, mounting exhibitions, and other RBSCL-wide tasks.