Category: Digital Library Jobs

Wilfrid Laurier University Libraries are recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Information Resources and Scholarly Communication.

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The AUL IRSC provides library-wide leadership,management, policy and planning responsibility in the areas of Information Resources, Metadata Initiatives, Scholarly Communication, Data and Government Information and Assessment and Evaluation, with an emphasis in advancing digital initiatives and services.

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The British Library is recruiting a BL Labs Technical Lead.

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Fixed term contract—duration 18 months

The Digital Scholarship Team is looking for a talented, communicative, technical, problem solving expert to work on a new project, British Library Labs. The project's focus is about encouraging researchers and developers to carry out innovative research and development at 'scale' on the incredible range of digital collections the British Library has. The British Library Labs project will help the Library advance digital scholarship and deepen its understanding of the needs of scholars in working directly with its digital collections, tools and services.

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The James Madison University Libraries & Educational Technologies are recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian.

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The Digital Collections Librarian manages JMU Libraries' locally created digital materials, taking a lead role in the creation, maintenance and stewardship of digital collections, including the digitization of special collections. This position provides strategies for effective management and preservation of library digital assets, informs conversations on scholarly communications and advises students and faculty on best practices for preserving scholarship and digital projects. The Digital Collections Librarian also collaborates with other units in L&ET to plan and implement systems related to digital collections, including repositories and digital asset management systems.

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The Wilfrid Laurier University Library is recruiting an Associate University Librarian, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication.

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Reporting to the University Librarian, the Associate University Librarian for Information Resources and Scholarly Communication (AUL IRSC) works closely with other members of the Library Executive team to advance the strategic agenda of the Library and foster a culture of collaboration and communication. Integral to the success of the transformational change process, the AUL IRSC will be a champion and leader in articulating and implementing a vision for the 21st century Library. The AUL IRSC provides library-wide leadership, management, policy and planning responsibility in the areas of Information Resources, Metadata Initiatives, Scholarly Communication, Data and Government Information and Assessment and Evaluation, with an emphasis in advancing digital initiatives and services.

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The Government and Heritage Library is recruiting a Librarian—Systems Support.

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This is a time-limited position. The Government and Heritage Library is seeking an enthusiastic, innovative Systems Support Librarian to be part of the NCpedia team in the Digital Information Management Program. NCpedia is the online North Carolina encyclopedia managed by the Library. Using a combination of XML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP (or additional programming/scripting languages), this position manages and maintains the NCpedia's hosted Drupal installation which includes 20+ Drupal modules and continuous upgrades.

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The University of Cincinnati Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repository Software Developer.

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Full-time staff appointment responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining software components and interfaces of the UC Libraries digital repository service, to support the storage and management of digital images, text, audio, video, data sets, and other content, plus a suite of tools and services to support ingestion, search and discovery, digital object presentation, preservation of digital content, and other workflows.

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The Mountain West Digital Library is recruiting a Digital Metadata Librarian (funded through August 31, 2014).

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The Digital Metadata Librarian of the Mountain West Digital Library will support the improvement of metadata standards and metadata in digital collections from MWDL partners, including memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Hawaii, and around the Mountain West region. Facilitate the ingestion of collections into MWDL and from there into the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Work with new partners and repositories to resolve metadata issues and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) interoperability issues. Execute ingestion of new collections into Ex Libris Primo. Perform metadata audits of new collections and spot-check existing collections. Conduct metadata training for partner institutions. Describe new collections on website.

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The Mountain West Digital Library is recruiting an Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian (funded through August 31, 2014).

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The Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian of the Mountain West Digital Library develops and coordinates the partnership program of the MWDL, including outreach, promotion, and training. Develops partner relationships and facilitates cooperation with other memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Hawaii, and around the Mountain West region. Assists partners in sharing collections with the Digital Public Library of America through MWDL. Develops partner on-boarding processes, including additional policies, forms, and agreements. Coordinates and conducts training in digital library curation tasks and perspectives, including both centralized training at periodic intervals and on-site training and support at partner locations.

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Syracuse University Library is recruiting a Copyright Librarian/Adviser.

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The Copyright Librarian/Adviser is the University Library's chief resource and consultant on issues that span copyright, information policy, and University Library services and initiatives. The Copyright Librarian/Adviser develops the University Library's copyright policies and coordinates their application to the University Library's mission and its educational, research, pedagogical, and scholarly communication activities.

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The University of San Diego's Copley Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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Reporting to the University Librarian and working under the direction of the University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, the Digital Initiatives Librarian is responsible for assisting librarians and faculty with digital projects and developing and managing the University's institutional repository based in Copley Library. He/she plans services and standards for digital projects and repository projects and prepares related workflow, long-term preservation and perpetual access documentation and procedures. . . . He/she works closely with the library faculty and teaching faculty to identify and to advise on issues related to intellectual property and open access of scholarly output at the University.

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Colgate University Libraries are recruiting a Rare Books, Manuscripts and Digital Projects Librarian.

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The individual in this position manages rare books, manuscripts, and other non-University Archives materials in the Special Collections and University Archives, including their development, organization, description, accessibility, digitization, preservation, promotion and assessment. S/he engages in educational planning and instruction, reinforcing the significance of primary source materials as curricular resources, and explores the use of technology to advance teaching, learning and research with special collections materials. S/he manages the Libraries' major digital projects involving Special Collections materials (student newspaper, yearbooks, alumni magazine, course catalogs, etc.) including digital outsourcing, quality control, preservation, and storage and creates and describes resources digitized locally.

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The Princeton University Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The Digital Archivist will be integrated into the functions of the Library and the Mudd Library Technical Services Unit. The position will participate in the archival processing, accessioning, and reference programs of the Mudd Manuscript Library and contribute to work relating to development and evaluation of infrastructure for digital archives, access systems and tools, digitization, and related technical issues. This position also works with a variety of stakeholders, including archivists and librarians, developers, IT staff, and donors, and will supervise the work of student assistants.

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The University of Virginia Library is recruiting an Institutional Repository Services Librarian.

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This position will promote repository services to the university community through training and outreach activities, assist members of the university community with Libra deposit and access, and help determine strategic directions for Libra, ensuring that Libra services support current and future scholarship of the UVA community. The position also plays a key role in the library's scholarly communication initiatives by serving as one of a team of experts on open access, scholarly publishing, fair use and copyright issues.

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The University of Cincinnati Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist/Records Manager.

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Full-time tenure-track faculty appointment responsible for developing and implementing digital workflow including, but not limited to, born-digital archives, the digitization of existing hard copy materials, and the digital preservation of established electronic records. Also responsible for implementation and management of the University of Cincinnati Records Management Program. Coordinates and provides technological support for ARB staff including the ARB website.

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Utah State University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian:

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This new position will play a major role in furthering the success of the Library's digital initiatives by enhancing discovery and access for digital content through metadata creation and enrichment according to local and national cataloging and metadata standards. The Metadata Librarian will document and implement adopted metadata standards, practices, and workflows. He/She will lead efforts to provide metadata for archival and special collections materials, explore innovative ways to enhance metadata, and contribute to making the library's digital content more readily discoverable.

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The Five Colleges of Ohio are recruiting a Mellon Digital Scholar.

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The successful candidate will

• Foster the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects;
• Serve as a liaison to faculty, educating them about the wide range of options offered by the libraries and collaborating with them on the use of digital collections and projects in the curriculum;
• Train and coordinate training opportunities for library staff to increase their understanding and awareness of the emerging field of digital scholarship;
• Engage faculty and students, as appropriate, in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using digital collections and emerging analytical tools;

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The University of Waterloo Library is recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives.

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Demonstrated ability to lead change, and identify and implement new technologies, services and work methods; ability to learn and evaluate new technologies quickly. Competencies will include strategic thinking, project management, metadata, information technology, human resources management, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills, instruction and training. Demonstrated ability to independently, as well as collaboratively, plan, coordinate, and implement effective digital projects, including managing multiple and simultaneous projects. Knowledge and understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, current programming languages and frameworks, issues and trends relating to web technologies and digital initiatives in the library environment.

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Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Discovery Metadata Librarian.

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The Discovery Metadata Librarian is responsible for the accessioning of digital objects into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). Stanford University Libraries' (SUL) SDR manages hundreds of terabytes of assets and the successful, automated ingestion of digital objects and their metadata will be key to its success. The objects ingested may come from many sources, from digital library collections to Google-scanned books and the metadata for the collections will need to be examined with an eye both to schema and successful discovery in SUL's discovery environment, SearchWorks.

This is a four-year, fixed-term position.

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Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Library Software Engineer, Revs Program.

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This is a two-year, grant-funded position.

The Repository Developer will primarily develop digital library software to enable management, preservation, and online discovery of Revs materials. This will involve deployment of a new repository and web application using the Hydra technology stack (http://projecthydra.org). The Repository Developer will be a core contributor to the open source Hydra project in the process of building the Revs digital repository.

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The Smithsonian Institution is recruiting a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist.

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This position is located in the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSG), Network Services Division. The incumbent serves as the head of Digital Access and Outreach with responsibility for long-range planning, direction and implementation of the museum's digital strategy. The incumbent reports to the Director of the FSG.

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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities is recruiting a BitCurator Community Lead.

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The Community Lead will be responsible for representing the BitCurator project in public contexts; conducting site visits to work with the partner institutions represented on our Professional Experts Panel and Development Advisory Group; promoting BitCurator through social media, online community-building, and at conferences; gathering and analyzing user feedback in conjunction with our developers; creating and maintaining documentation; and working with the project team to develop a long-term sustainability plan for BitCurator's deliverables.

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