MIT is recruiting an Associate Director of Collections.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
- Provide leadership, relationship building, and inspiration with a particular focus on advancing openness and equity in scholarly communications, expanding collective collections building, and supporting new computational uses for collections.
- Work across MIT to advance the Open Access Task Force’s recommendations that intersect with the Libraries, including strategies for manifesting the principles for open science and scholarship in publisher contracts;
- In keeping with MIT’s focus on computation and machine learning develop and lead a strategy to provide services and/or support for computational access to collections;
- Innovate, collaborate, and experiment to realize the vision of scalable and standards-based approaches to metadata creation and management;
- Focus the Libraries’ curatorial efforts on collecting and making available content generated at MIT, and provide more emphasis on building and making available unique and distinctive collections;
- Shape and realize the vision of a scalable digitization program, as called for in the Future of Libraries Report.
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