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.
