Category: Digital Library Jobs

The New York University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Technology Specialist.

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Support metadata-driven discovery and access within NYU Libraries systems; analyze, design and implement scripts and methods for metadata extraction, transformation, and ingest; develop tools, training and documentation in support of metadata encoding and transformation; assist in database table maintenance, system reporting, analysis, trouble-shooting, and upgrades; contribute to research and development of NYU metadata projects and initiatives; consult as needed with NYU units beyond KADD and KARMS.

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The University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries are recruiting a Digital Library Infrastructure Lead.

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Reporting to the Digital Library Services Department Head, we are seeking a senior candidate with strong software development and leadership skills to lead and implement automated services to support digital initiatives for both the Hesburgh Libraries and the wider campus community. Collaborating with the Digital Library Services Department Head and Digital Library Applications Lead, the incumbent will lead digital library infrastructure design to ensure access, discovery, security, data integrity, and preservation of unique library collections, campus research data, and conference event data. The incumbent will lead creation of complex software services to automate capture of metadata, archive data files, transform image and video files, automate digitization, and aggregate information from multiple sources.

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The Harvard Library is recruiting a Head of Metadata Creation.

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Reporting to the Head of Information and Technical Services (ITS) and working closely with the ITS management team, the Head of Metadata Creation will lead staff members engaged in conceptualizing, developing and managing metadata descriptive practices that leverage a rich past as Harvard explores new, scalable techniques to provide access to unique content and objects. Together they will lead the effort to optimize metadata, including user generated metadata, and cataloging output and to find new ways to make the library's collections more accessible to local and global user communities and scholarly resources existing elsewhere more accessible to Harvard faculty and students. Success attributes include strong strategic focus, active participation in the ITS management team, a visible commitment to staff development in an environment that promotes creativity, innovation and continuous improvement, robust and effective communication with key constituents and stakeholders, and accountability for results.

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The Purdue University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Library Software Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job number: 1200273):

The Digital Library Software Developer will be responsible for implementing and developing software to build out a long-term preservation environment for research data allowing the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) to sustain published materials. This position will also collaborate with Purdue colleagues, and with both national and international partners, to develop and implement software in support of policies and practices that enable long-term digital data management and preservation. This is an 18 month position with the possibility of continued funding.

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The Northwestern University Library is recruiting a Senior Software Developer.

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This position will work in a highly collaborative environment with Library colleagues and external partners on the analysis, design, coding and testing of software in order to explore, adapt, and implement emerging digital repository technologies particularly in the areas of digital preservation, metadata, collections, discovery, and repository services.

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The Texas Woman's University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Curator.

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Provides highly responsible data curation and management of digital resources, to include preservation and curation research and development activities and initiatives. Creates digital collections, enables discovery and retrieval, and promotes and preserves. Works with products of mass digitization, items from special collections such as the Woman's Collection and supports electronic research and online exhibits. Responsible for assisting visitors to the special collections with research services, assists students with primary resources, and provides high level research services to scholars, educators and journalists.

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The Yale University Library is recruiting a Metadata & Emerging Technologies Librarian.

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Reporting to the Leader of the Metadata and Catalog Management team, provides expertise and training to support the analysis, selection, and implementation of metadata schemas needed for the development of digital content projects and services at Yale. Responsibilities include Metadata production, consultation, and database queries and SQL skill development.

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The Robert W. Woodruff Library Atlanta University Center is recruiting a Unit Head, Digital Services.

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The library invites applications for the position of Unit Head, Digital Services. This newly created position and unit is a part of the recently restructured and refocused Content and Collection Management department. This position will be responsible for the scope of services for this new unit. The Unit Head, Digital Services manages the daily operations of the library's digital services unit, grant funded projects, and staff. S/he works collaboratively with library staff and faculties at academic institutions to deliver digital services and content in support of teaching, learning and research. They will lend dedicated focus to the library's Archive Research Center. The Unit Head, Digital Services Librarian is responsible for researching, recommending, and implementing emerging technologies that exploit creation and management of and discovery and access to digital collections. S/he develops best practices, policies and procedures for digital asset creation and management. The Unit Head, Digital Services Librarian, reports to the Head of Content & Collection Management.

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The Library of Congress is recruiting a Digital Conversion Specialist.

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This position is located in the World Digital Library, Office of the Librarian and reports to the Supervisory Information Technology Specialist within WDL. The incumbent serves as a digital conversion specialist and facilitates the development and expansion of the WDL through participation in digital library activities, such as preparation of physical materials for WDL conversion, and quality control of digital assets (digital objects and metadata) received from WDL partners for inclusion in the WDL programs. This position involves constant contact with overseas partners and working with materials in the English language and languages other than English.

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The California Digital Library is recruiting a Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 20120087):

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Manager of Infrastructure and Applications Support is responsible for technical design, implementation, maintenance, and operations of the common technology enterprise services that support all program and service areas. The Manager is responsible for the Computing and Storage Resource Center comprising a distributed network of CDL-owned resources at two physical locations and for managing the overall integration architecture for computing systems, database management systems, storage systems and network infrastructure. The Manager also provides support to application developers in the CDL's program areas for the development, staging and production environments, partnership support for desktop computing services provided by UCOP's TechDesk,and for collaboration tools supporting the work of CDL and its partners.

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The University of North Texas Libraries are recruiting a Collection Development Librarian.

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The University of North Texas Libraries Collection Management Division is looking for a collection development librarian to frame, conceptualize, create, and maintain a collection of born-digital and other open-access electronic materials that support the institution's scholarly pursuits.

The Collection Development Librarian, with an emphasis in open-access and born-digital materials, is responsible for the identification, acquisitions, classification, and accessibility of these resources. This librarian will also work with stakeholders to pinpoint online resource needs, and formulate the scope of various born-digital collections.

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The Columbia University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Scholarship Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 0002842):

The Columbia University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Libraries division. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will provide leadership in incorporating technologies and new research methodologies into the scholarly activities of the humanities community at Columbia University. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will work with colleagues from across the University to develop outreach strategies and partnerships with faculty and students supporting digital research projects in the humanities. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will engage technologies emerging as critical to research and teaching in the humanities to meet the evolving needs of faculty, students, and staff. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will assist in planning for the programmatic and physical expansion of the Digital Humanities Center, http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/dhc.html, within Butler Library, including the creation of a graduate student fellows program focusing on the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will also assist in the identification of funding opportunities and preparation of grants supporting the programmatic needs of the Digital Humanities Center. The Digital Scholarship Coordinator will work closely with colleagues from the Humanities and History Libraries, the Digital Humanities Librarian, and the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu, and the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, http://cdrs.columbia.edu. The position will report to the Director of the Humanities & History Libraries division.

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The Oregon State University Libraries are recruiting a Data Management Specialist.

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OSU Libraries seeks a self-motivated individual to establish a robust research data and data set curation and management program at Oregon State University. Reporting to the Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services, the Data Management Specialist plays a central role in developing services and data management plans to support the data generated by the OSU research enterprise. The position collaborates with faculty, graduate students, academic units and research center personnel to identify, manage, describe, preserve and make research data available and accessible to appropriate audiences. The Data Management Specialist assists faculty and graduate students with writing data management plans required by funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation. The position identifies and recommends appropriate methods for data storage and retrieval and instructs researchers in contributing to and using digital repository systems including ScholarsArchive@OSU.

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Tufts University is recruiting an Archivist for Digital Collections – Digital Collections and Archives.

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The Archivist for Digital Collections (ADC) oversees the formulation, preparation, and management of digital objects and collections for the DCA with a particular focus on developing tools and workflows to maximize efficiency in digital collections management. This work includes: database manipulation, scripting, supervising student workers, developing policies and procedures concerning digital objects and metadata, implementing appropriate standards and best practices, conducting quality assurance for digital collections, undertaking preservation activities, and managing the DCA's locally-developed collections management system, CIDER. The ADC, working closely with the Director, acts as project manager for projects yielding digital collections including proposal development, and implementation and oversight of funded projects, and serves as a primary point of contact for faculty requiring assistance managing electronic research materials.

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The University of Texas–Pan American Library is recruiting a Digital Project Librarian.

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• Responsible in managing daily operations related to the digitization, cataloging, classification, and access of archival materials.
• Creates, manages and organizes digitization projects.
• Catalogs and classifies digitized print, audio-visual and oral history.
• Creates and maintains a website for the digitized items.
• Seeks permission for copyrighted material for digitizing.
• Works in collaboration with other area libraries and museums for digitization of some archival collections.

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The MIT Libraries are recruiting a Software Engineer.

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Reporting to the Head of Software Development and Analysis, the Software Engineer will be responsible for development work, from front-end web applications to back-end data management, for a variety of projects underway in the Libraries. An initial focus will be enhancing GIS software and systems that expand access to geodata through existing services and tools. S/he will work collaboratively with the Senior GIS Specialist, the Geospatial Data Librarian, and the Digital Library Systems Manager to investigate, define, recommend, and build new services around geodata. The Engineer will maintain up-to-date system documentation and manage code in a version-control system. S/he will also advise and consult with library technical and non-technical staff to provide GIS web development expertise and guidance.

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Marquette University's Raynor Memorial Libraries are recruiting a Coordinator of Digital Programs.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections, the Coordinator of Digital Programs provides leadership and coordination for the creation, maintenance, and stewardship of the Libraries' digital collections and repositories. This position is responsible for the management, education and promotion of Marquette's institutional repository, e-Publications@Marquette (http://epublications.marquette.edu/) and, in collaboration with the Department of Special Collections and Archives, the coordination and development of the Libraries' digital collections (http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/earchives.shtml).

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The Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Humanities Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job ID: 46583):

Under supervision of the Head of the Digital Initiatives Group (DIG), the Digital Humanities Developer is responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a variety of digital library projects and products for the humanities and social sciences. She or he will work closely with the entire DIG team (which includes librarians and specialists in assessment, digital publication, social science data, user services technology, and digital humanities) to select projects and set priorities collaboratively.

The Developer will also consult with fellow librarians outside of DIG on new library projects, will integrate and develop applications and tools that support both immediate project goals and longer-term library goals. The Developer will also help in the maintenance and improvement of existing technologies in the areas of digital humanities, the social sciences, and the digital library.

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The Purdue University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Specialist.

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The position will specify the application of appropriate descriptive, administrative, and technical metadata schemas for digitized and born-digital content managed by the Libraries. This will include a leadership role in non-MARC metadata projects. This position will develop strategies for metadata interoperability to facilitate effective access and preservation. This includes strategies for integrating heterogeneous metadata from highly distributed collections within local services, as well as exposing locally generated metadata to external services. The position will play an active role in national and international discussions about the emerging and dynamic role of metadata in providing access to information resources.

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The University of Maryland Libraries are recruiting a Research Data Librarian (post-Master's program, two-year term).

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Reporting to the Manager, Digital Stewardship, the Research Data Librarian: actively participates in university-wide initiatives to develop and design policies, sustainable services, and infrastructure to enable faculty and students to preserve and make available their research data; partners with internal units (such as GIS and DRUM — Digital Repository of University of Maryland) and external units (such as Vice President for Research, Office of Information Technology (OIT) Enterprise Technical Infrastructure and Learning Technologies and Environments, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) to develop a data-publishing model that leverages library services in support of data management and preservation; assists faculty with development of data management plans for grant applications; serves as an active member of the Information Technology Division, contributing to divisional initiatives and leading specific projects; incorporates support for data management and preservation into library services; and maintains close engagement with issues relating to scholarly communications such as copyright, open access, and data management and preservation.

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The Florida State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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The Florida State University Libraries seeks a Digital Archivist to develop, implement, and provide leadership for digital initiatives involving Special Collections materials and services. The Digital Archivist will be creative, dynamic, and articulate and be skilled in digitization, metadata, project and website management, and digital preservation. The Digital Archivist will report to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives.

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The University of California, Santa Cruz Library is recruiting an Associate University Librarian—Collections and Library Information Systems.

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The Assistant/Associate University Librarian Collections and Library Information Systems (AUL/CLIS) is a member of the Library's senior management team and has overall responsibility for Library collections, including collection development, the collection budget; acquisitions, cataloging, metadata creation, and serials management; digitization projects, preservation, and scholarly communication; and information systems. In addition, this position provides leadership for the Digital Library Program (DLP) which is dedicated to the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of high-quality networked resources for scholars and students.

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