Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of South Carolina is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Archivist.

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This position will be responsible for developing and implementing policies for the accessioning, appraisal, preservation, and description of, and access to, born-digital records collected by SCPC. The Digital Initiatives Archivist will also assist with outreach, including digitization of audiovisual materials for use in online and on-site interactive exhibits, and maintaining online presence of finding aids via ArchivesSpace.

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McGill University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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Provides scholarly communications services to the campus community, including preservation of and access to the research output of the McGill community, publishing, open access, and authors' rights.

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McGill University is recruiting a Coordinator, Data Curation and Scholarly Communications.

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Leads the formalization, expansion, and implementation of Library-based research data curation services to the campus, and provides these services to researchers. Supervises members of the Data Curation and Scholarly Communications team within Library Digital Initiatives.

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the University of Texas at San Antonio is recruiting a Special Projects Librarian.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries seeks a Special Projects Librarian to assist with the implementation and support of major library-wide digital initiatives.

The Special Projects Librarian will support projects by learning, configuring and training staff on new applications, helping transition projects into daily operations, creating and maintaining project documentation, coordinating project communications, developing written content and metadata, and conducting user testing on new and existing applications.

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New York Public Library is recruiting a Humanities Curator.

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Under the general direction of the Library's Brooke Russell Astor Director of Collections Strategy, the Humanities Curator

• Initiates outreach activities to promote teaching, learning, and scholarship using the Library's collections.
• Serves as a resource and facilitator for digital humanists working on projects and recommends collections for acquisition.
• Working closely with colleagues both internally and externally, collaborates on the development and production of digital publications, scholarly projects, and educational resources that showcase the Library's collections.
• Serves as a change agent, partner, and resource for subject librarians and special collections curators involved in facilitating digital projects.

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Georgia Southern University is recruiting a Discovery Services & Data Curation Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head of the Collection and Resource Services Department, the Discovery Services & Data Curation Librarian (DSDC) will promote data curation in Digital Commons (the Henderson Library's institutional repository) and other open access data repositories; manage research data sets in Digital Commons; assist faculty with data plans and structure for display in Digital Commons; serve as Library Liaison to the Office of Research; promote a service culture for technical services; manage EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to provide maximum positive user experience;

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The Kansas Historical Society is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The Kansas State Historical Society seeks to hire a Digital Archivist to support the State Research Collections Division's management of born-digital and digitized archival collections, including but not limited to the Kansas Memory digital archives.

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The Florida Institute of Technology is recruiting a Research Data Specialist.

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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Consult on grant requirements related to data management, data sharing and publication
• Arrange and conduct data interviews with researchers
• Analyze, collect and curate electronic data, including bibliographic data
• Help establish standards and best practices for displaying data
• Assist with testing of new tools and visualization framework

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Indiana University Bloomington is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

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The Digital Preservation Librarian will lead the development and implementation of preservation strategies and policies for digital collections for the IU Libraries, including both digitized and born-digital materials. The position reports to the Assistant Dean for Library Technologies for work-related issues with a dotted line relationship to the Associate Dean for Collection Development and Scholarly Communication for matters relating to promotion and tenure.

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The University of Alberta is recruiting a Director of the Copyright Office.

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Reporting directly to the Vice-Provost (Learning Services) and Chief Librarian, the Director of the Copyright Office will participate in the strategic development of Learning Services which includes the Libraries, Museums and Collections, Bookstore, University Press, and Technology Training Centre, as well as the Copyright Office. The successful candidate will establish mechanisms to assist the university community in complying with copyright laws and best practices in their research and publishing, teaching and use of resources and services.

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Harvard University is recruiting a Web Designer.

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The Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society are looking for a web designer to help us build tools to explore the open Internet and define the future of libraries.

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Cornell University is recruiting a Digital Programs Associate.

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Under the direction of the Digital Scholarship Librarian, the Digital Programs Associate will work with a large network of stakeholders across the Cornell University community to successfully manage and execute time-sensitive deliverables for a wide range of exciting digital programs. The successful candidate will be self-directed, enjoy working as a member of large, project-specific teams in a positive and professional manner.

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The University of North Texas is recruiting a IT Programmer .

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Working with the Django Web framework and other open source components, you will contribute to the feature development and upkeep of the content delivery system in use for The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) and related products. In addition, you will provide programming support for our metadata creation and editing systems. You will work collaboratively with other programmers and technologists in the UNT Libraries to address software problems and to add and customize features for our products.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is recruiting a Research Programmer for the Research Data Service.

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As a member of the Repository Development Team and reporting to the Manager for Repository Development, the Research Programmer will provide design, programming, and technical support for all components of a large-scale, campus-wide, research data repository system.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is recruiting a Data Curation Specialist.

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The Research Data Service seeks innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professionals for two Data Curation Specialist positions. The candidates will advance the campus' Research Data Service program (http://researchdataservice.illinois.edu) by directly partnering with researchers and units to manage, curate, publish, and archive research data. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in enabling world-class, data-driven research.

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Indiana University Bloomington is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist/Project Manager, Archives of African American Music and Culture.

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Working collaboratively with the Director and Head of Collections for the Archives of African American Music and Culture(AAAMC), the Digital Collections Archivist/Project Manager is responsible for planning, implementing and/or supervising digitization projects pertaining to legacy collections, and managing born-digital audio, video, image and text collections. This work involves appraisal and preparation of analog time-based media materials for reformatting; evaluating proposed acquisitions of born-digital collections and developing procedures for the migration, description, and management of files; managing access to digital/online collections; managing digital imaging projects; and assisting with and providing administrative support for AAAMC projects including publications, website development and maintenance, public programming and services.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is recruiting a HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist.

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Reporting to the English and Digital Humanities Librarian, the Visiting HTRC Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the development of training and outreach initiatives in support of libraries who wish to start their own HTRC research services as well as researchers working with the Hathi Trust Research Center. Responsibilities will include planning, implementation and continuous design and development of training materials and educational workshops (both face-to-face and remote) and outreach activities in support of the usage of HTRC tools and datasets. The successful candidate will focus on supporting the development of HTRC research services at HathiTrust member institutions, and will collaborate with public services and data services librarians at HathiTrust member institutions on developing support services for digital humanities research with HTRC corpus.

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Louisiana State University is recruiting a Copyright Policy and Education Director.

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Reporting directly to the Dean of LSU Libraries, the Copyright Policy and Education Director is responsible for providing individual and group instruction in copyright and authors' rights as they apply to research and curriculum. These are education services intended to raise awareness of how legal issues affect and support academic work in all disciplines, formats, and contents. The incumbent will work with the Libraries chief license negotiator and provide legal insight into collections license negotiation. The director protects the Libraries' interests, along with those of faculty and students, as they relate to the use and preservation of licensed scholarship.

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UC Davis is recruiting a Director for Online Strategy.

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The Director for Online Strategy will act as the senior leader in charge of the Library's strategy, development, and operations for Web, mobile, and social media platforms, including locally and collaboratively developed, externally acquired, and cloud-based. Coordinate and oversee technology-related operations of the Library in close collaboration with the other members of the leadership team.

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The University of Texas Arlington is recruiting a Director of Scholarly Communications.

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The Director of Scholarly Communication will serve in an important leadership role advancing central facets of the strategic plan of The University of Texas at Arlington. The Director will be the primary liaison to UTA faculty on emerging issues of scholarly publication and provide legal expertise to faculty, students and colleagues within University Libraries on intellectual property issues related to scholarly communication. The Director of Scholarly Communication will serve as an advocate for new and emerging practices in scholarly communication at the University, including playing a role in shaping policies and support for the creation, delivery, and preservation of original digital scholarship produced at UT Arlington. The librarian in this position leads education and outreach to faculty and provides guidance to all members of the UT Arlington community on issues related to scholarly publishing, including author rights, open access (OA) publishing, and current and emerging publishing trends. This position also serves as a resource on intellectual property issues related to copyright, open access and licensing. The Director of Scholarly Communication will work closely with allied positions in Digital Humanities, E-Science and GIS.

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The Metadata Librarian is recruiting a University of Florida.

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The Metadata Librarian is a new tenure track library faculty position in the Cataloging and Metadata Department at the University of Florida Libraries. The incumbent establishes processes that facilitate user discovery and access to library resources through the application of various metadata standards and best practices. In consultation and collaboration with UF colleagues and project teams, the Metadata Librarian creates and revises metadata at the local and network level for special collections and other material to ensure broad access, promotes the Libraries' holdings, and supports discovery of electronic resources and digitized collections. The Metadata Librarian advises on ontology and metadata schema development within the context of emerging linked data and semantic web applications as well as on metadata and information organization needs. Utilizing batch loading and editing tools, the Metadata Librarian improves access, actionability, and processing of library resources while achieving workflow efficiencies.

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Yale University is recruiting a Head, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit.

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Under the direction of the Head of Technical Services and working in close collaboration with units across the Beinecke Library and the Yale University Library, the Head of Beinecke Digital Services leads a newly formed Digital Services Unit. As such, the Head coordinates the Beinecke Library's digitization program, its digital projects, and its user experience initiatives to enhance access to and use of Beinecke Library and its collections, including the Beinecke Digital Library, collection web pages, and online exhibits. The Head leads the investigation, development, and implementation of metadata and digitization workflows and standards as well as user interfaces and tools that affect the user experience.

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Smith College is recruiting an Archival Project Manager.

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Serve as the Special Collections Project Manager for a Smith College "Women and Activism" research and digitization project in support of the curriculum. Coordinate and liaise with project stakeholders and collaborators including: faculty, Special Collections and Digital Strategies and Services (Libraries), the Office of the Provost, Educational Technology Services (specifically the lead Instructional Technologist), and Information Technology Services.

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The Library of Congress is recruiting an Information Technology Specialist.

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The information technology specialist will be primarily responsible for systems that are either involved with the production of digital talking books or the production of other digital materials such as digital braille. The work of this position involves responsibility for a range of software and hardware systems. The work involves design and analysis of systems, prototyping, coding, functional and unit testing, implementation and system acceptance. The Information Technology Specialist will be involved with numerous aspects of information technology, including networking, computer security, desktop computing, lifecycle management, digital archival and interactive web systems.

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The Institute for Defense Analyses is recruiting a Data Curator II.

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Under minimal supervision, this position creates, manages, protects and preserves digital repositories of data, assists users with data access questions, and interfaces with sponsor or about data requirements/restrictions.

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