Category: Digital Library Jobs

The Vanderbilt University Libraries are recruiting an Institutional Repository Coordinator.

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The Institutional Repository Coordinator assists with developing, maintaining, and promoting Vanderbilt University’s institutional repository: Discover Archive. As a member of a scholarly communications team, the IR Coordinator will provide support for students, faculty, and staff members who would like to archive content in the IR. The IR Coordinator will assist the Director for Scholarly Communications with campus outreach, analyzing citations of open access publications and promoting the scholarly benefits of open access publication.

The University of Iowa Libraries are recruiting a Head, Digital Research & Publishing.

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Formerly Digital Library Services, DRP was recently redefined with a mission to explore ways that academic libraries can best leverage digital collections, resources, and expertise to support faculty, research staff, and student scholars in their own research and scholarly activities. Specifically, DRP collaborates on interdisciplinary scholarship built upon digital collections, offers publishing services to support sustainable scholarly communication, engages the community through participatory archive initiatives, explores new technologies such as geospatial applications and linked open data, and oversees the University's institutional repository.

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, the Head of DRP has direct administrative responsibility for the department's strategic planning, staffing, and daily operations. This position serves as a senior advisor to library management and interacts extensively with other campus units and library departments on issues related to digital research and publishing.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is recruiting a Visiting Research Programmer for Repository Development.

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As part of a team of repository developers, the Research Programmer will be responsible for providing programming and technical support for all components of a large-scale digital preservation management system, codename Medusa, and the technical infrastructure for the IDEALS scholarly communications initiatives within the University Library. As necessary, the Research Programmer may also provide technical support to other scholarly communication or digital preservation research projects or related programs within the Library.

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The Boston College Libraries are recruiting a Digital Content Specialist.

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This person plays a pivotal role in creating digital collections for the Boston College libraries, including metadata, digital objects, and the infrastructure to support discovery, access, dissemination, and preservation. Working collaboratively with other members of the digital library staff, they will be responsible for carrying out projects from start to finish, adhering to best practices and standards. They will execute plans as developed by both the Digital Program Planning and the Scholarly Communications teams. They will investigate and implement new technologies and troubleshoot technical issues as required in order to continuously improve our digital collections and institutional repository and associated services to the Boston College community.

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The Boston College Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repository Specialist.

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The incumbent will independently manage the workflow for deposit of materials to the eScholarship repository. The incumbent will interpret and make recommendations on intellectual property rights under the direction of the Scholarly Communication Librarian. The incumbent will communicate with faculty regarding their deposits, will prioritize workflow steps, and will make recommendations for improvements in procedures. The incumbent is charged with the safe handling of rare materials and operating sophisticated imaging equipment.

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The University of Toronto Libraries are recruiting a Scholarly Communications Application Programmer.

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To provide ongoing technical leadership and support to the Institutional Repositories, Focus on Research faculty research profile service, Journal Publishing Service, Open Conference Service and related initiatives. This position has the primary technical responsibility for these various undertakings. The incumbent installs, monitors and upgrades the various software applications; ensures that the necessary infrastructure is in place; and together with the Scholarly Communications Publishing Coordinator librarian, works with involved students, faculty and staff.

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The University of Georgia Libraries are recruiting a Digital Public Library of America Coordinator.

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The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a Digital Public Library of America Coordinator who will be responsible to the Associate Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) for metadata aggregation, creation and upgrade; project management; staff supervision; rights management; vendor and partner relations; and other duties related to the DLG's participation in the Digital Public Library of America's (DPLA) Hubs Project. As a hub for the DPLA, DLG will provide digital services to Georgia institutions, such as digitization, metadata, data aggregation and storage services. In addition, the DLG will host community outreach programs to bring users in contact with digital content of local relevance. This position is a 24-month, grant-funded position.

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The Colorado State University Libraries are recruiting a Data Management Librarian .

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The Data Management Librarian is part of a team that leads the development, management, and promotion of campus and cooperative digital collections and repository services. This position offers an exciting opportunity to support a scholarly communications program that will provide support services relating to organizing, preserving, and sharing of research data.

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The New Mexico State University Library is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

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The Digital Projects Librarian manages digital projects as assigned, providing leadership and technical expertise to ensure their successful completion. The librarian works closely and collaboratively with a variety of individuals involved in the collections-based projects to plan and implement, including identifying resource needs, establishing and maintaining schedules, workflows, and procedures documentation. Working in conjunction with others, perform extension and outreach to the library's diverse constituencies to promote digital initiatives and develop partnership opportunities. The incumbent will also be expected to participate in library-wide projects and other duties as assigned. This position may supervise staff and student employees and reports to the Associate Dean of the Library.

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The Wheaton College Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Coordinator.

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In the context of teamwork and mutual support, the Digital Initiative Coordinator advances the above-stated missions as follows:

• Proposes and implements digital innovations that advance faculty and students' discovery and use of library resources, including the creation of digital collections
• Proposes and implements digital innovations to support the library's operations
• In collaboration with others, maintains and enhances the library's Web presence and other electronic services

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries are recruiting a NCDHC Digital Projects Librarian.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an organized, collaborative, and collegial individual for the position of Digital Projects Librarian in the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (http: digitalnc.org ). The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digital library program housed in the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Digital Heritage Center provides digitization and digital publishing services to cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina. The Center has worked with more than 100 institutions around the state on a wide variety of digital projects.

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ORCID is recruiting a Director of Community.

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ORCID (http://orcid.org) is an international non-profit organization that provides a registry of persistent unique researcher identifiers. . . .

We are seeking a Director of Community, who will have responsibility for executing ORCID's Outreach plan, including developing on-line materials and resources, planning events, supporting our Outreach Working Group, and developing regional programs to support understanding and integration of ORCID identifiers.

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The Columbia University Libraries are recruiting a Web Archiving Project Librarian.

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The Web Archiving Project Librarian will work with Columbia's collecting partners at other research libraries to identify content areas of mutual interest, propose and test models for collaboration using Columbia's web archiving infrastructure, and identify issues relating to policy, governance and financing of a collaborative program. Through data mining and interviews with scholars at Columbia and elsewhere, the Web Archiving Project Librarian will identify current and potential uses of web content and archives in scholarly research, and identify any changes in strategy or procedures for the web archiving program to improve outcomes. The incumbent will work with website managers at Columbia and elsewhere to identify and test technical changes that would improve harvesting of the website, and alternate means of acquiring content. . . .This is a temporary 2-year position, commencing in March 2013.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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• In strong collaboration with Library Systems, University Archivist and Manuscripts Curator, develop processes, procedures, and specifications for collecting, preserving, and providing access to born-digital records and hybrid collections that use MARC cataloging and XML encoding.
• Investigate, plan, and manage format conversions and migrations.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement workflows for digital content creation, including quality control procedures, prioritization of production, developing high levels of productivity.
• Provide training in processes and specifications for digital collection creation.

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The Dartmouth College Library is recruiting a Digital Publishing Production Manager.

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This position manages all aspects of production for Elementa, a new multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary digital publishing platform within the Dartmouth Digital Library Program. The Production Coordinator handles day-to-day tasks to ensure the smooth running of the publishing platform and its subject domains. Key tasks include assisting authors and reviewers with the submission system, managing and providing quality control for electronic manuscript files and graphics accepted for publication, updating the platform's webpage, and supporting the geographically dispersed editors-in-chief overseeing the publication's six domains. This is a four-year term position ending December 31 2016, with potential for renewal.

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The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are recruiting a Digital Image Metadata Librarian, Image Collection Library.

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The Digital Image Metadata Librarian will collaborate with faculty, librarians and information technology staff to develop, deliver and integrate digital images and other objects into the curriculum. Provide user support for generation, classification, retrieval, and use of images through on-site consultation, print resources, and online documentation. Catalog materials in a variety of formats, with emphasis on electronic and visual image resources. Advise on the application of appropriate current and emerging metadata schema and file standards to facilitate access to digital image resources and other collections. Train others on metadata creation and management; and work closely with staff throughout the Library to provide access to the Image Collection Library's collection.

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The University of Texas at Austin Libraries are recruiting a Director of Texas Digital Library.

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Provide leadership and vision to the Texas Digital Library (TDL) organization, assisting the Governing Board and the staff with the development of long range and annual plans and report the progress of the plans. Develop working relationships with the deans and directors of member libraries, as well as with other member library staff to ensure management with TDL programs and awareness of TDL member needs. With the assistance of the TDL Governing Board, direct activities aimed at recruitment of new members for the TDL consortium. Develop and nurture relationships with academic and research libraries across the state of Texas and promote the work of TDL to potential member libraries. Serve as chief spokesperson for TDL in the digital library and academic library communities. Work to elevate TDL's standing with these communities, and articulate the value of digital libraries generally, and TDL specifically. Work with the Governing Board to develop TDL as a nationally recognized digital collaborative. Develop, implement, and supervise programs and services that support its Strategic Plan and the needs of member libraries.

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University of Florida Libraries are recruiting a Digital Production Manager.

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The University of Florida Libraries seeks a versatile and energetic Digital Production Manager responsible for strategically managing staff capacities, multiple fund lines and project timelines, and the specialized equipment and resources for the operations of the Digital Library Center. The Digital Production Manager has oversight of projects and staff in the areas of bibliographic control, imaging/post-capture processing, quality control & structural metadata, audiovisual conversion/formatting, and optical character recognition/metadata enhancement/archiving. Working closely with external and internal clients this position ensures an appropriate flow of materials, manages digitization processes and services, advises customers on technical specifications, and makes project level decisions collaboratively with the Chair of Digital Services & Shared Collections.

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Clemson University Libraries are recruiting a Head of Digital Scholarship.

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Clemson University Libraries seeks an innovative and motivated professional to work with a team of vibrant library faculty to envision and implement the library’s technology initiatives. Reporting to the Director, Office of Library Technology, the Head of Digital Scholarship will manage scholarly communications and copyright initiatives, lead institutional repository planning and outreach, and oversee digital production and data management strategies. This is a 12-month tenure-track position with faculty rank and status.

The University of Utah Library is recruiting a Coordinator for the Digital Preservation System.

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The Coordinator for the Digital Preservation System will, with the Digital Preservation Archivist, administer the back office environment of the Library's digital preservation software, Rosetta. Within the software, the Coordinator configures deposit procedures for various collections, manages users, manages plug-ins, works with the technical metadata extractor, risk extractor, migration tools, custom fixity, format identifier, etc.

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NYU Digital Library Technology Services is recruiting a Programmer/Analyst—User Interface Design and Development.

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The Position is charged with working across a portfolio of projects to design, build, and maintain front end software for web-based systems that support and enhance accessibility and user experience for the Digital Libraries.

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