Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of Bridgeport is recruiting a Digital Content Specialist.

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Reporting to the AVP Information Technology and CIO, the Digital Content Specialist supports initiates to create, disseminate, and archive electronic content across University enterprise platforms. These include: the ExLibris suite of library systems; Equella institutional repository; web; and Datatel sharepoint portal. The incumbent works closely with content managers across the University in academic and administrative departments to develop standards and policies; maintain metadata thesauri: maintain library web and portal presence; handle synchronous learning content; manage intellectual property and permissions; trouble shoot technical problems; and support content management system user groups. The Digital Content Specialist participates fully in developing the strategic direction of the University in managing digital content, and is responsible for researching emerging developments. He/she maintains relationships with the vendor community.

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The University of Houston Libraries are recruiting a Coordinator of Digital Operations. Salary: $52,000-$56,000.

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Reporting to the Head of Digital Services, the Coordinator of Digital Operations explores, adapts and supports library information technologies for digital projects, including the application of standards, metadata, discovery interfaces, workflow design, production coordination, and quality controls appropriate to specific projects. Collaborates and coordinates with other staff, committees and other departments to shepherd digital projects from inception to completion, and develops policies and workflow for digital collections. Supervises the work of 1 Metadata Specialist, 1 Digital Photograph Technician, student workers and library student interns. Provides training and assistance to others in the department supporting metadata services; and participates in local, state and national metadata initiatives, including the metadata working group of the Texas Digital Library.

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The University of Houston Libraries are recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian. Expected salary range: $48,000-$52,000.

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The Digital Collections Librarian is a newly created position in the Special Collections department and reports to the Coordinator of Digital Services and Instruction. Responsibilities include identifying new digital projects and managing department workflow for all Special Collections digital projects; serving as liaison to Digital Services, Web Services, and Computing and Networking departments; and reviewing metadata for Special Collections digital collections. The position also manages preservation and access to audiovisual and born-digital materials and develops content for the Web site.

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The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian.

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Reporting to the Faculty Director of Cataloging and Metadata Services, the Metadata Librarian is responsible for metadata creation and analysis of digital resources within the Libraries and/or for the campus community. The position may play a significant consultative role for metadata provision for the campus community. In furtherance of the Libraries' mission and departmental goals, the individual in this position may teach others in the library about metadata provision and provide metadata support to the campus community. The Metadata Librarian is a member of the tenure-stream Libraries faculty. Significant parts of the responsibilities of this position are scholarly activity and creative work and service in keeping with the tenure standards of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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The Princeton University Library is recruiting a GIS Programmer & Infrastructure Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 0110026 ):

The position will work with the GIS and Map Librarian to develop and update the Library's GIS and Map Collections website, and to design the search and discovery infrastructure and interface to the Library's Digital Map and Geographic Data Portal. It will also be responsible for helping the GIS and Map Librarian to coordinate map digitization projects, assist with writing scripts to perform specialized GIS analysis, and develop geospatial web applications to view, analyze, and update geospatial information. It is also responsible for helping to install, maintain, and update the Library's Digital Map and Geographic Data Portal software packages, such as ArcSDE, GeoServer, SQL database, JP2 Image Server, and may also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with the GIS and Map Librarian, GIS personnel at OIT, Library curators of historic map collections, Library Digital Initiatives Team, Library GIS Centers at peer institutions. The position reports to the Library Systems Office.

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The Northeastern University Libraries are recruiting a Data Curation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 04012479):

Are you interested in applying your skills to a new area of information management and working alongside world-class researchers as you do so? Do you think about the future of libraries, open-access to research data, and digital repository services? If so, consider becoming our data curation librarian!

As part of the Digital Library Management department, the Data Curation Librarian provides a wide range of curatorial services, including data documentation, assistance with developing appropriate data management plans, and preparation of data for storage in Northeastern's digital repository service.

The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues in the Libraries and across campus to play a leading role in ensuring Northeastern's compliance with data curation mandates as well as promoting open access to Northeastern produced research data. He or she will be responsible for developing and maintaining a robust and integrated set of programs and activities that strengthen the Library's role in supporting data-intensive research and researchers at Northeastern as well as meeting the secondary data analysis needs across all disciplines.

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The Dickinson College Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 0600314):

The Digital Services Librarian will lead the Library in identifying and incorporating innovative uses of technology in all areas of library services. The ideal candidate is a librarian with 3-5 years of relevant experience who is equally comfortable with both traditional academic library services and with new and emerging technologies for libraries and higher education. We are seeking someone who enjoys experimenting with technology and who can envision and articulate innovative uses of technology in an academic library setting. The ideal candidate will possess the enthusiasm for exploring new products and processes in a rapidly changing environment; the ability to implement them; the analytical skills to critically assess their effectiveness; and the flexibility to adapt them as needed. Of necessity, this role requires someone who is a strong collaborator and who is able to communicate effectively with librarians, IT professionals, faculty, students, and staff. The ideal candidate will be proactive in recommending improvements in library services and resource delivery, and be effective in leading project teams. A well-established liaison librarian program underpins our strong information literacy and collection development initiatives. As a liaison to several academic departments, the Digital Services Librarian will possess the strong teaching and outreach skills necessary for success in these central activities.

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The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San José State University is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian.

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The successful applicant will provide vision and direction for a growing suite of services supporting scholarship; provide support in the continued development and management of the digital archives; keep current with the latest technologies, and develop and implement ideas for applications in new and current services; provide expertise and leadership for current and future SJSU e-scholarship projects such as electronic journal publishing and data curation; provide expertise on intellectual property issues; maintain awareness and develop in-depth knowledge of new technology, relevant national standards and best practices related to digitization and scholarship; and coordinate resource management and training for digitization and associated standards. Ability to work cooperatively and maintain effective, creative, and flexible working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff and students. Incumbent will serve at the reference desk and provide some classroom instruction, with some evening and weekend hour assignments. Works closely and cooperatively with the Director of Special Collections and Archives, Technical Services Manager and Collection Development Coordinator.

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The Oregon Health & Science University Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job: IRC32413):

The Scholarly Communication Librarian will provide a leadership role within the OHSU Library and OHSU community in support of scholarly services and digital initiatives. The position will provide outreach and promotional activities pertaining to the scholarly work product of students, faculty and staff at OHSU, including the promotion of the Library's Digital Resources Library; explore new opportunities for publication; provide support services; and assist individuals in interacting with editors and publishers of their work; analyze and select alternative methods of providing access; support e-science initiatives; and provide community support regarding government deposit mandates. As a member of the Library Faculty, the Scholarly Communication Librarian participates in planning, policy formation and decision-making relating to health sciences services, collections and technologies. This position requires scholarship and service that contributes to the effectiveness of the Library, the University, and the profession

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The Utah State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Services Librarian.

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This 12-month, tenure-track, entry level faculty position with rank of Assistant Librarian reports to the Associate Dean for Technical Services and is responsible for a broad range of services and duties related to the libraries' websites and digital content and services. In addition to providing leadership managing the content and design of the libraries' websites, this person will guide the library in implementing new technologies to enhance our patrons' experiences, especially USU's distance students, and will play an active role in library outreach activities. The successful candidate will participate in the development of a library plan for digital preservation and data curation.

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The University of Virginia Law Library is recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 0606957):

The University of Virginia Law Library invites applications for a newly created Digital Collections Librarian. The librarian will manage all aspects of digital content and delivery, supervise graduate students in their production of e-text, evaluate new technologies related to digital content and represent the law library in the development of the University repository. There will be opportunity to work with colleagues on technical aspects of research projects.

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The Department of Transportation is recruiting a Digital Librarian. Salary: $74,872-$115,742.

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This position is located in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Library (NTL), Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). As the Digital Collections Technology Librarian, you will be responsible for leading the development and enhancement of digital repository services, information organization, digital curation, and tools/software that facilitate discovery and use of NTL resources including leadership of the NTL Technical Services Team.

The NTL Technical Services Team is responsible for web application design and maintenance cataloging, collection maintenance, and web site maintenance. Among other duties, the team maintains and enhances the functionality and provision of (a) the NTL Integrated Search System, including the NTL Digital Repository, (b) the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT), the NTL web site, and (c) other applications, most of which are homegrown, open source, and off-the-shelf software.

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The Duke University Libraries are recruiting a Head, Digital Scholarship and Production Services.

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The Head of Digital Scholarship and Production Services provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the Duke University Libraries' services to support digital scholarship and the Libraries' production of digital content primarily from their distinctive holdings, both of which involve work by staff in multiple departments. She/he cultivates a forward-looking, collaborative environment and sets high user-centered service standards; works closely with faculty and students as well as other library staff; and directs the staff and administers the budget of the Digital Scholarship and Production Services Department.

Responsibilities

• Working with colleagues throughout the Libraries, develops a cohesive program and suite of services that support scholars engaged in creating, using, and disseminating scholarly materials in a wide range of digital media
• Provides services that include the creation of digital content, project planning, project management, and the provision of tools for collecting, organizing, preserving, analyzing, and authoring digital information and generating new intellectual products. These services will draw on expertise throughout the Libraries in areas such as digitization standards, costs, and methods; rights management; usability issues; workflow and process management; quality control; and budget management.
• Collaborates with other campus stakeholders, such as the university's signature institutes, to develop digital scholarship programs at Duke and to enhance the Libraries' participation in and contributions to those programs.
• Develops capacity among library staff to support work in digital scholarship by providing instruction, training, demonstrations, and workshops.
• Works with the Libraries' subject specialists, IT staff, Preservation Department, and other staff to meet collection development, data storage, preservation, stewardship, and access challenges related to digital content creation and knowledge management.
• Facilitates connections and partnerships of faculty and students with librarians and technologists in supporting digital scholarship and developing new research projects.
• Promotes and evaluates the use of existing digital content and scholarly tools at Duke and provides demonstrations of digital scholarship resources and tools to interested faculty, students, staff, librarians, and library supporters.
• Leads the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Libraries' program for digital content creation and the development of library policies regarding digitization.
• Manages Digital Scholarship and Production Services staff, operating budget, and grant project budgets.
• Advocates for digital scholarship and content creation technology support needs with Library ITS and with Duke OIT.
• Engages with collaborative national and international digital scholarship initiatives that benefit Duke and the larger research community.
• Actively pursues external funding for digital scholarship and content creation initiatives, including grants and corporate partnerships; serves as principal investigator for grants as appropriate and contributes to building capacity for other staff members to assume that role.
• Manages workflows and projects to produce digital content, coordinating the work done in various departments, ensuring adequate communication among staff involved in the projects, and keeping projects on schedule.
• Serves on and advises the Collections and User Services Council regarding priorities of the digital scholarship and production program.
• Working with staff in other departments as appropriate, plans, implements, and monitors external contracts providing digitization, metadata creation, or other services related to the digital scholarship and production.
• Monitors national trends regarding digital library initiatives, shares information with other staff as appropriate, and applies it to planning and program development at Duke.

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The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting three Visiting Digital Library Research Programmers (various position lengths).

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The successful candidates will be appointed to support current digital library grant-funded research projects being conducted at the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center. Appointees will report to the respective grant project’s principal investigators (PIs) and will be members of the University Library's Software Development Group. Specifically, these three positions will support and be funded by the following grant projects:

• Emblematica Online: Emblem Digitization, The German Emblem Database, and The OpenEmblem Portal (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
• The Institute of Museum and Libraries Digital Collections & Content Project, 2-year extension: Advancing the IMLS DCC to Promote our Collective Cultural Heritage (funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services)
• The Bamboo Technology Project, Phase I (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
• The Open Annotation Collaboration, Phase II: Demonstration & Refinement (funding request pending with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
• The National Ethics Resource Center Digital Library (funded by the National Science Foundation)

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The University of California, Santa Cruz Library is recruiting a Digital Library Applications Programmer (grant funded through 03/31/2012).

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The University of California, Santa Cruz Campus will make available digital collections on a cutting-edge website. This website will provide access to Grateful Dead Archive materials and tools to facilitate public contributions to the archive. This project will enable the university to convert a significant part of a traditional archive to digital form and make it available online while simultaneously experimenting with the impact of fostering, creating, and curatorship of a large, socially constructed archive. The website will support discovery, delivery, use and construction of the Grateful Dead Archive for a broad range of users including the general public and the academic research community. The position will contribute to the development of open source software Omeka (http://omeka.org/) developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Enhancement of the software will include improving social metadata capacity, permissions and rights consent for contributed digital content, and migration (export and import) of metadata and data between collection management software/social sharing sites and Omeka, as well as applications, servers and repositories supporting access, content management and digital preservation. Lastly, the position will also support the installation, configuration and management of applications and servers supporting the website.

Under general supervision and reporting to the Grateful Dead Project Manager, this position designs and develops code to enhance applications and installs, configures and manages server, storage and networking hardware. Work is performed using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, XML software and XSLT stylesheets. Position interacts with University Library staff in Special Collections and Digital Initiatives to gather requirements, write specifications, develop code enhancing existing or creating new Omeka plug-ins, testing code and perform quality assurance to evaluate code against original requirements. Position works closely with University Library Information Technology Services (ITS) staff to manage applications and servers (development, staging and production) in a LAMP environment supporting the website including Omeka, CONTENTdm, WordPress and Drupal software and migrate metadata and data between applications, servers and digital preservation repositories.

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The New York Public Library is recruiting an Applications Developer (one-year position).

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Reporting to the Digital Project Manager, the Applications Developer:

• Designs and implements scalable, optimized, database-driven web applications using server- and client-side techniques
• Works with User Experience Designers to adapt existing and build new software-based solutions to support user experience goals
• Builds out APIs, data feeds and other ways of interacting with NYPL content beyond web-based interfaces
• Explores new platforms and architectures for NYPL services and content

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The Syracuse University Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

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The Syracuse University Library seeks an energetic and visionary librarian who is passionate about the challenges of digital scholarly communication. This librarian will have a deep knowledge of the scholarly process and an avid interest in the future of digital research. A main assignment will be to direct Surface, the university’s new institutional repository/research database at http://surface.syr.edu, with the goal of building it into a model, state-of-the-art online resource. The scholarly communication librarian will develop an understanding of the theory, principles, and evolving practice of scholarly communication in the academy in order to make available, facilitate, and extend the broadest access to resources needed by the Syracuse University community for teaching and learning. This position will bridge the gap between the library and the SU research community by advising, instructing, and advocating for best practices in open access, and digital resources and preservation. This position is part of the library’s Unit for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication (RCSC), and will work closely with the associate dean to communicate with faculty and graduate students.

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The College of Charleston Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian. Salary range begins at $40,000.

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A member of the Library Systems Department, the Digital Services Librarian assists in the planning and implementation of the digital services at the College of Charleston Libraries. The Digital Services Librarian works closely with the Technical Services department to support and troubleshoot library services related to the following: ILS and catalog maintenance, electronic resource loading and management, remote access, OpenURL configuration, and resource sharing. The Digital Services Librarian is also responsible for maintaining and updating the College of Charleston Libraries' web site and serves as chair of the Web Committee. The Digital Services Librarian collaborates with the Lowcountry Digital Library staff to improve the user interface, test new delivery platforms, and assist with technical issues. The Digital Services Librarian actively participates in College-wide initiatives, committees, and governance, especially as they relate to institutional technology projects. The Digital Services Librarian reports to the Systems Librarian.

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The Montana State Library is recruiting a Web Systems Developer. Salary: $48,880-$56,996.

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The Web Developer is the primary web programmer for the Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS), a highly dynamic and technology focused program of the Montana State Library. As a very early adopter of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the Internet, NRIS uses these tools to deliver valuable natural resource data to our patrons both locally and around the world. This position supports the agency’s information sharing mission through the efficient and responsible deployment of web applications and services.

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