The Virginia Tech Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repositories Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Virginia Tech Libraries invites applications and nominations for candidates who will bring vision and creativity to developing, promoting, assessing, and sustaining a digital repository (DR) for the university’s unique resources. The Digital Repositories Librarian will provide modern, web-based repository services, oversee daily management, instruction, promotion, and long-term planning for the repository, and coordinate digital reformatting operations that preserve and improve access to resources. . . .
Responsibilities:
Rapid deployment of a multi-media research database and digital repository, working with two new positions also being advertised–Digital Technologies Development Librarians, the Digital Library and Archives (DLA) staff, and others. Develop repository policies, procedures, workflows, and services. Oversee digital repository collections and services, including developing and securing content, communicating with and providing support to contributors and users, and evaluating and maintaining quality control of the processes, collections and services provided by the unit. Collaborate with and support liaison librarians in their efforts to recruit and collect scholarly content. Share a deep knowledge of the scholarly process and an avid interest in the future of digital research, including open access and preservation. Manages new repository team; develops standards, goals, and expectations for evaluation of the team and carries out that evaluation. Works collaboratively with others to develop and expand mutually beneficial infrastructures and services related to digital repositories, preservation, and other digital initiatives. Reports to the DLA Director and assists in shaping overall strategy and direction of the department.
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