Category: Digital Library Jobs

The Abilene Christian University Library is recruiting a Digital Archives Specialist.

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The Digital Archives Specialist executes the plan of work developed and directed by the Associate Dean of Digital Initiatives, Special Collections, and University Archives to provide access through the West Texas Digital Archive to rare books and archival materials held in ACU's Special Collections in service to teaching and learning. . . . This position is grant funded, renewable annually for up to three years, with the possibility of extension.

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The California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist (two-year position).

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 102708):

Under the direction of the Director, Information Resources and Archives, and working closely with the Head, Special Collections and University Archives, the incumbent will lead the ongoing technical and programmatic development of digital university archives and special collections, and provide leadership and coordination to explore, adapt and implement digital asset technologies in support of campus digital media collections, programs and services.

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The University of Wyoming Libraries are recruiting a Head of Digital Resources.

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The position will develop, implement, and maintain digital services, workflows, and policies.

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New York University's Data Services is recruiting a Senior Data Services Specialist.

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The incumbent will be working in a vibrant and collaborative environment on a team that supports all phases of the data lifecycle in research, teaching, and learning, including collection, analysis and preservation. He or she will provide client services, technical assistance, project management and administrative support, methodological expertise, and leadership in support of the numeric and statistical research and computing services offered to the faculty, student and professional patrons of ITS/Libraries Data Services.

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The California State University, Fresno Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (vacancy number: 11875):

The successful candidate will join a university-wide cohort of faculty that will develop and support teaching, research, and outreach initiatives that focus on water quality, technology, and management, including a new interdisciplinary Master's degree in water resource management. Working with library faculty, in close collaboration with the Water Cohort group, the Digital Initiatives Librarian will lead the design, creation, and maintenance of multiple library digital projects, most notably the Waterways Archive, a digital geo-portal which will eventually serve the entire campus and region. This position will include significant responsibilities collaborating with campus faculty to support scholarship, teaching and student success through information literacy instruction, research support, library digital initiatives, collection management, scholarly publishing and academic data curation.

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The University of North Carolina Wilmington Library is recruiting a Digital Program and Data Management Librarian.

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Digital program development: Articulates the vision and develops the supporting roadmap for the Library's digital program. Facilitates the development of the Library's overall web-based and digital services programs. Serves as a lead on digital preservation and digital collection projects. . . .

Data Management: Articulates data and informatics issues, encourages conceptual dialogue regarding data and informatics efforts, and advocates for responsible but open access to data. . . .

Training and Development: Trains and works directly with Library staff to help make them more effective content contributors.

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato Memorial Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

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This position is part of a team that provides leadership and direction for the planning, development, implementation, growth, and maintenance of a program to serve the digital repository needs of the Library and university. The program and initiatives will encompass digitization and preservation of a wide array of digital collections, including but not limited to: local unique materials, university electronic records and websites, and the digital scholarly output of university faculty, staff, and students which includes electronic theses and dissertations and research datasets. . . .

Responsibilities include identifying, evaluating, and implementing appropriate software and hardware for the digital collections; identifying and implementing appropriate metadata standards; writing and maintaining policies and procedures; promoting collections to the University community; and maintaining a current knowledge of scholarly communication issues.

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Digital Library Technologies at Pennsylvania State University is recruiting a Systems Administrator.

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The successful candidate will be a member of the DLT Infrastructure Services team, responsible for the delivery and administration of business critical infrastructure services. DLT orients projects and activities toward a service management approach in order to improve service efficiency, develop a more collaborative team structure, improve resource management, and deliver a more transparent organization.

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The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian.

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The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian provides leadership and instruction regarding open access publishing issues, advises on retention of author rights and federal funding compliance requirements, and explores the use of bibliographic metrics and systems to evaluate personal research impact; plans maintenance and growth of the Library’s Scholarly Communication web site; plans and manages budget and special program funds associated with copyright and scholarly communications; provides training and educational resources regarding the appropriate use of copyrighted resources and application of the U.S. copyright law; assists health sciences faculty, staff, and students secure copyright permissions; reviews Health Sciences Library electronic resource licenses; works collaboratively with staff from the University Libraries Copyright Resource Center, University Legal Affairs, and the University Technology Commercialization Office; . . .

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The British Library is recruiting a Digital Curator.

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The work will involve tracking developments in digital scholarship, creating partnerships which can support the Library's strategic objectives and encouraging, supporting and assisting curators to realise their vision for integrating digital content into a seamless research experience.

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The University of Rochester Libraries are recruiting a Data Librarian.

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The River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester seeks an innovative and collaborative Data Librarian to design and establish a new research data support service at a leading research university. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Public Services, the Data Librarian plays a key role in developing services and policies to collect, manage, curate, provide access to, and assist in the analysis of data. The Data Librarian will work collaboratively with faculty, graduate students, reference librarians, metadata librarians, and information technology staff to develop and implement a campus-wide data program.

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The Duke University Divinity School Library is recruiting a Digitization and Technology Librarian.

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To capture and preserve both the original intellectual capital and resources produced or licensed/purchased by the Duke Divinity School in digital format and oversee the dissemination of these digital holdings.

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The Valdosta State University Library is recruiting a Computer Services Associate—Library Automation.

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This position reports to the Odum Library Automation Department, and is assigned to work with the VSU Archives and Special Collections Department. This position is responsible for managing the development of metadata, textual encoding, as well as the day-to-day progress of a wide variety of digital reformatting projects including scanning, optical character recognition, image and text editing, This person is responsible for maintaining items in the Vtext Institutional Repository and the VSU Archives web sites and its databases. This person directly supervises all student digital projects in Archives and Special Collections.

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The New York Public Library is recruiting a Metadata Coordinator.

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Reporting to the Assistant Director, Special Formats Processing, the Metadata Coordinator:

• Sets standards for metadata schema and descriptive standards.
• Documents best practices for metadata creation for digital objects, including metadata created by or purchased from third parties.
• Works closely with the Digital Repository staff to ensure that descriptive and technical metadata standards are embedded into the Repository’s software and systems.

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The Folger Shakespeare Library is recruiting a Director of Digital Access.

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The Director of Digital Access will serve as a member of the Director's senior leadership team and, in coordination with the Director, will be responsible for developing a strategy for the current and future library's digital initiatives, which encompass all aspects of its operations. He/she works closely with the Director and other members of the leadership team to determine how digital assets at the Folger should be deployed to expand access for both scholarly and popular audiences.

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The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries are recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, committed to the advancement of scholarly communication through digital initiatives in repositories, scholarship, and Open Access publishing, seeks a dynamic and forward looking librarian for the position of Scholarly Communications Librarian. This position will provide leadership in the development of strategic directions for scholarly communication programs as a key member of the Libraries' Scholarly Communications Working Group and the Scholarly Resource Development Department. This position advocates for new forms and practices of scholarly communications to campus and external constituencies. The successful candidate will provide in-depth guidance on author rights and Open Access publishing and will participate in developing education and outreach on scholarly communication issues for faculty, students, and the community at large. This position also serves as the Library's primary resource on copyright compliance, fair use, and other copyright issues that pertain to library collections and services.

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The Temple University Libraries are recruiting a Sr. Web Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job number: TU-15969):

Working closely with other members of the Digital Library Infrastructure Group, the incumbent will play a leading role in designing and implementing the overall architecture, workflows, and applications for Temple's digital library services. He/she will be responsible for the following duties: work with open-source applications and toolkits, design and implement a multi-purpose repository infrastructure that supports the ingestion, preservation, and delivery of digital objects, in accordance with the OAIS model, and with attention to TRAC's recommendations. Provide specialized front-end interfaces to the repository for both digital object creation and end-user delivery, by using, adapting, and extending open source and commercial applications. Design and implement efficient pipelines to extract, transform and repurpose metadata and digital objects as needed. Gather requirements and develop specifications for various aspects of the digital library architecture; work closely with digital object creators and managers to understand their needs. Test, evaluate, and recommend potential toolkits and applications for inclusion in the repository architecture.

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The Central Michigan University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Resources Librarian.

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Central Michigan University seeks an innovative, energetic, Digital Resources Librarian in the Department of Collection Development. This 12-month tenure track faculty position will play a key role in assisting the CMU Libraries to achieve a higher level of digital services and access. The Digital Resources Librarian will possess an understanding of how digital collections are best made discoverable through various technologies (library discovery tools, proprietary database search interfaces, Google, mobile devices, etc.). The Digital Resources Librarian will also design user experience studies and conduct rigorous collection evaluation under the supervision of the Director of Collection Development while working in close collaboration with subject librarians.

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The Columbia University Libraries are recruiting an E-Book Program Development Librarian.

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This is a temporary, 2-year position (with the possibility of extension) created to provide comprehensive analyses and recommendations to support the planning and development of multiple aspects of the Libraries' program for acquiring e-books and making them available to patrons.

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The George Washington University Libraries are recruiting an Electronic Media Project Archivist.

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The Project Archivist will be responsible for taking a lead in determining the appropriate routine methodology for preserving, arranging, and providing access to electronic media materials ranging from audiotape, videotape, digital files on tape, diskette, CD-ROM, and other electronic media as they develop, in consultation with the Manuscripts Librarian and the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communications.

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The Brooklyn Museum is recruiting an Assistant Archivist—Digital Collections and Services.

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Under the direction of the Head of Digital Collections and Services, the Assistant Archivist (AA) will create and manage digital assets to populate the Luna DAMS and Museum website, scan analog materials, create metadata, load images and metadata into Luna, and check and maintain image and data quality.

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