Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of California, Davis is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Officer and Program Lead.

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Under the general guidance of the Associate University Librarian for Collection Services, the Scholarly Communications Officer serves as a primary spokesperson, presenting the Library's strategies and recommendations regarding all aspects of scholarly publishing, barrier-free access to knowledge, changing scholarly credit mechanisms, and new modes of knowledge creation. The Scholarly Communications Officer creates the vision, directs and manages program operations and personnel by setting the program goals, policies, best practices, and assessment metrics for program success and sustainability. In addition, the Scholarly Communications Officer partners with campus units and other library programs, such as the Archives and Institutional Assets and Research Data Management, to develop solutions for collecting, disseminating and preserving new forms of scholarly communication.

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The University of Colorado Boulder is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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The Digital Scholarship Librarian will foster partnerships that encourage the exploration and adoption of evolving modes of digital research and pedagogy on campus, particularly in the humanities. The successful candidate will work with colleagues in the CU-Boulder Libraries and campus units to build a community around digital scholarship on campus and in the region, help lead in the creation of a campus digital scholarship initiative, and identify and foster adoption of digital tools and methods that advance scholarship and teaching.

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Wake Forest University is recruiting a Digital Humanities Research Designer.

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The successful candidate will collaborate with humanities faculty and library colleagues to expand modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies and design thinking. In providing research project support and conducting workshops on the use of various tools, for example, the Digital Humanities Research Designer will be able to translate and share ideas and concepts effectively across diverse interdisciplinary audiences. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will maintain currency in the field and may pursue their own research to do so.

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The University of Nebraska at Omaha is recruiting a Digital Engagement Librarian.

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The Digital Engagement Librarian creatively collaborates with and supports faculty, students, and community members involved in digital scholarship and digital projects. Participates in the development of digital projects and collections by providing a full range of instruction and sustainability services and best practices. Responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students from across the university on projects related to digital publishing and digital exhibitions, as well as on emerging forms of digital scholarship.

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The University of Kentucky is recruiting a Director of Digital Services.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean, Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), responsibilities include:

• Serves on the SCRC management group that collaboratively administers Research Services and Education, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, the King Library Press, Digital Services, the University Archives and manuscripts
• Develops long term planning and policies for digital preservation and access initiatives
• Supervises four full-time staff members
• Works collaboratively across SCRC to implement and advance strategic planning and goals
• Establishes policies and priorities for digital preservation, imaging services, online access, born-digital archival processing, and resource development in line with the goals of SCRC and UK Libraries

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Virginia Tech is recruiting an Assistant Director for Strategic Research and Analysis.

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The Assistant Director for Strategic Research and Analysis provides support for strategic intra- and inter-university initiatives in key areas to aid library administrators in better decision-making. In collaboration with the Dean, appropriate department directors, and associate/assistant deans, the incumbent researches libraries and universities and their initiatives, as well as their economic, socio-technical, and cultural environments, including emerging trends, and service experiences. Specifically, the incumbent will seek and analyze new, innovative ways of providing information/ data/content services and operating new technology and human resource infrastructures.

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The University of California, Santa Barbara is recruiting a Software Developer.

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Responsible for all aspects of design, programming, testing, deployment, operation, debugging, evaluation, and support for complex Library web applications. Works with the repository team, led by the director of repository development and operations, to enhance and support the Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL) and its cornerstone digital repository software system.

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Western Governors University is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The WGU Digital Archivist is responsible for collecting, organizing, cataloging and maintaining the university's important documents and records. The primary accountabilities of this position will be establishing a digital storage and retrieval system, working with all WGU departments to collect and preserve key documentation and records, and ensuring that the archives and updated, maintained, and accessible to university faculty and staff.

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Virginia Tech is recruiting a Digital Projects Coordinator.

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The Digital Projects Coordinator manages projects for the newly launched Digital Imaging Service serving the campus as well as regional museums and archives. . . . The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help establish and expand a nascent digitization program at a Carnegie R1: Research University and ARL member library, work with diverse collections such as historic archival materials and artifacts, fascinating biodiversity specimens such as fossils, insects, and minerals, while also exploring the application of new technologies such as 3D imaging and representation.

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MIT is recruiting a Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian .

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Will help design and implement a skills-building educational program in research methods, new research tools, data management, collaborative scholarship platforms, and digital presentation/publishing; engage with library and scholarly organizations to further knowledge of trends and issues related to humanities scholarship in order to contribute to strategic change; serve as a liaison for history and selected other humanities subjects, delivering a program of services and products to support faculty and student success in research, teaching, and learning; provide instruction in research skills and strategies, collaborate and consult on digital projects, develop customized resources to support student learning, and ensure that constituencies can make effective use of library services and resources; and collaborate on selecting resources, providing reference services, and participating on cross-unit projects.

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The Library of Congress is recruiting a Digital Assets Specialist.

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The position serves as the Digital Assets Specialist in the American Folklife Center (AFC) within Library Services and reports directly to the VHP Collections Head. The purpose of this position is to oversee the administration of VHP's digital asset management program, including developing and managing bom-digital and reformatted collection processing workflows.

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The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Digital Archive Project Librarian. Terminates on 11/30/2017.

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The Digital Archive Project Librarian creates and manages the digital production and ingest for the project to digitize and make available online the papers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez via the Center's digital asset management system, CONTENTdm.

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UCLA is recruiting a Digital Library Software Developer.

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Under the direction of the Digital Library Architect, the Digital Library Software Developer (DLSD) provides systems analysis and programming to develop custom software programs with source data from a locally-developed legacy Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) and Fedora Commons open source DAMS.

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The University of Nebraska at Omaha is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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The Digital Initiatives Librarian has the primary responsibility for leading the development and activities of the university's digital collections, including planning for and administering tools, creating metadata, developing and conducting outreach initiatives, and assessing the effectiveness of initiatives and services. This position serves as the library's leading resource on copyright, fair use, and open access issues. Leads the development of digital initiatives by providing a full range of collection management, metadata, and sustainability services and best practices.

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Cornell University is recruiting a Digital Humanities Librarian.

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The Digital Humanities Librarian will contribute to and provide leadership for a growing dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the demand for digital scholarship support on campus, primarily in the College of Arts and Sciences. Working with arts, humanities, and social sciences scholars, faculty, and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful use and integration of digital approaches to research, teaching, and learning.

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UCLA is recruiting a Data and Technology Services Coordinator.

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Reporting to the NN/LM PSR Associate Director, the Data and Technology Services Coordinator is responsible for the following duties:

• Oversees the development, performance and ongoing evaluation of instructional and other support for biomedical big data, data plan management, and location/submission to data repositories to assist NN/LM PSR Network members.
• Provides oversight for the NN/LM PSR website structure, content, and compliance with Section 508 accessibility regulations for website materials, and teaches courses that assist Network members with understanding these technological changes affecting libraries.

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Ohio University is recruiting a Digital Project Librarian.

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The Digital Projects Librarians will support the Ohio University Libraries' efforts to advance its digital presence in the execution of digital projects and the laying of a foundation for a robust digital curation program.

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The University of Delaware is recruiting a Systems Programmer II.

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Reporting to the head of the Data and Server Management Department and working closely with others in the Information Technology and Digital Initiatives Division, this position supports development and maintenance of the technological infrastructure for University of Delaware Library services and digital library initiatives. This infrastructure includes the Institutional Repository, library discovery services, digital collections, digital humanities, and internal services.

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The University of Michigan is recruiting an Applications Programmer.

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled programmer to help create and maintain large scale digital library and and publishing systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives, including the creation of a new system architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus built on Hydra and Fedora.

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Vassar College is recruiting a Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services.

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Along with partners in the Libraries as well as Computing and Information Services, the Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services will identify and develop digital projects, technological resources, physical and virtual spaces, and training opportunities that address emerging needs across disciplines. The successful candidate will help to sustain and enhance the Libraries' longstanding strengths in digital collections, metadata expertise, and long-term stewardship, merging them with faculty work in the digital humanities and digitally-enhanced learning, and offering services to address changing practices in scholarly communications.

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Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Data Informationist.

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The Data Informationist will build an evolving set of data services to meet the needs of clinical, public health and basic science researchers across the research data lifecycle from its creation to preservation. S/he will investigate research practices related to data creation, use, organization, management and storage across the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health (SOM, SON and SPH). S/he will also participate in the institution's effort to measure the impact of research by Hopkins scholars.

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