Category: Digital Library Jobs

The University of British Columbia Library is recruiting a Director, Library Digital Initiatives.

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University of British Columbia Library is seeking an energetic, creative and experienced leader, capable of envisioning, developing and implementing the UBC Library's digital strategy and infrastructure all within the context of a rapidly changing environment.

This work will include providing stewardship and leadership to creating and developing the Libraries' digital services program; providing conceptual direction to the library's existing and future digitization services and projects, and defining and shaping the work of staff engaged in digital initiatives.

The position will collaborate with staff and departments to assess the appropriateness and applicability of digital initiatives projects and will steward the planning, development and implementation to ensure projects support the library's goals. Additionally, the position will provide leadership to the development of supporting metadata thereby enabling effective creation and management, search, discovery, and presentation as well as long term digital preservation.

The Director will provide strategic leadership to specific activities involving copyright, standards, digital projects and cIRcle and will be involved with matters relating to usability studies, materials preparation,costing/budget analysis; proposals for digitization work. This position also participates in the work of the Library Operations Management Group. 

The Director, Library Digital Initiatives will advocate for the program and give presentations locally, nationally and internationally. The Director will lead cooperative activities within the University and the Community essential to program development. The position will represent UBC Library nationally and internationally and undertake professional responsibilities which will foster long term relationships and support the goals of the UBC Library.

This position reports to the University Librarian, works Library-wide and closely with all levels of staff to develop and implement digital initiatives strategies and projects and provides strategic leadership to staff involved in library wide digital activities and projects including cIRcle, Scholarly Communications, Copyright, Standards, Digitization Projects.

Oxford Brookes University's Directorate of Learning Resources is recruiting a RADAR Repository Services Development Manager.

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Oxford Brookes has recently launched its blended institutional repository, RADAR (Research Archive and Digital Assets Repository). Based in the library, you will take the lead and co-ordinate the development of the RADAR research repository as a service across the university. You will also work closely with the e-Learning Systems Developer to provide advice on the development of the Brookes learning objects repository.

Microsoft Research is recruiting a Research Program Manager, Sr.

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Be a part of a dynamic team in Microsoft Research focused on improving Microsoft's engagement with researchers and academics worldwide-by advancing the state of the art in teaching, learning and scholarly communication. Our team designs, promotes, administers and evaluates projects that target how Microsoft products can evolve to better address the research needs of the higher education community. Through this work, we seek to establish Microsoft Research as a premier partner in advancing the frontiers of "eResearch"—with a specific role focus moving forward on digital humanities work with libraries, cultural institutions, educators and scholars on a global basis. This is accomplished by engaging with top researchers at universities and other non-profit organizations around the world to build proof-of-concept and prototype software based on Microsoft technologies enhancing the linkages between Microsoft software to the research lifecycle. Specifically, this program manager position will help identify important technical trends (focusing in the eHumanities), evangelize Microsoft's technologies, ensure interoperability and participate in activities with academic researchers and cultural institutions to improve our offerings tailored to these communities. This role will also provide support and close collaboration with related efforts in other Microsoft Research labs worldwide. Ideally, we seek a solid program manager with deep experience in using Microsoft platforms and applications to catalyze academic communication and computing. This position is worldwide in scope, so both domestic and international travel is expected.

Duties include: Primary responsibility is focused on overseeing multiple projects with universities and government organizations around the world and writing related specification documentation to support software development. This involves a broad range of activities, including: relationship building and engagement with a broad number of influentials in the education, research, and academic publishing world. Mapping to an existing strategy, this role helps develop and manage projects from initial set-up through to closure, including: concept refinement, negotiating terms and conditions, project set-up, regular progress tracking, detailed documentation of procedures/process, ensuring compliance (reporting, etc), as well as some basic financial tracking. Heavy focus on demonstrating the value of these projects both within the company (internally with product groups and the field sales organization), as well as externally (with government organizations and at academic conferences, etc)—namely external presentations, executive briefings, attendance at conferences as well as project/partner site visits. Domestic and international travel is required.

The Goettingen State and University Library is recruiting a Project Manager for the OpenAIRE project.

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Your responsibility will be to manage the project, working closely with the scientific, technical and administrative coordinators of the project by supporting the effective collaboration of all partners, across organisational and technological developments and a broad scale advocacy and awareness programme. . . .

The OpenAIRE project supports the Open Access Pilot conducted by the European Commission in the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). The project will deliver an electronic infrastructure and supporting mechanism for the presentation and monitoring of research articles (and to some extent related scientific data) funded in seven disciplines (energy, environment, ICT, electronic infrastructures, science in society etc.). The SUB Goettingen acts as the scientific coordinator of the project, and will coordinate the establishment and operation of a "European Open Access Helpdesk System" based on a network of national "Open Access Liason Offices" covering the European Union member states.

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries are recruiting a Digitization Project Coordinator.

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The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is currently engaged in three major digitization projects these include the Daily Pennsylvanian (1885 to the present), AMAR (Ancient Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports) and KDOD (Kirtas Digitize on Demand ) project. Of the three the Daily Pennsylvanian is the largest and most complex of the three. Each of these projects is based in the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image which is organizationally part of the Library's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In the case of the AMAR project, the Digital Project Coordinator (DPC) will manage the scanning of 500 archaeological reports for which SCETI is under contract with Stony Brook University and represents holdings in multiple institutions including the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Library, the University of Chicago and the Oriental Institute (Chicago). Reporting to the Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, the DPC will be responsible for the daily oversight, management and operations of the three projects. Utilizing a small team of scanning technicians and related library staff, the DPC will manage workflow and assure that content is digitized according to project specifications and in a timely fashion. The DPC will also be responsible for preparing monthly reports and working with coordinating libraries or institutions. This is one year full time position with the possibility of extension. The DPC will work in close collaboration with the SCETI Project Coordinator and Scanning Supervisor.

The Health Sciences & Human Services Library at the University of Maryland Baltimore is recruiting a Head, Resource Sharing and Repository Services

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This faculty librarian plans, directs and leads the resource sharing services units: borrowing, lending, and document delivery in the Resources Division. He/she participates in establishing, implementing and monitoring goals, tasks, policies, procedures and services relating to the library's resources and their delivery, oversees the department's staff of library technicians, coordinates the department's statistics/reports management and participates in strategic planning for the division. The Head, Resource Sharing and Repository Services reports directly to the Associate Director for Resources.

She/he serves as project manager for the institutional repository services to be offered to the campus by the library. The repository will promote the university's mission by applying state of the art technology to organize and present the intellectual work of the campus's scholarly community.

The Research and Enterprise Office of the University of Essex is recruiting an Institutional Repository Manager.

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The postholder will be accountable for delivering an institutional repository (IR) for the University’s research outputs, to schedule and on budget, and for managing the IR once implemented. This will involve working closely with other members of the University, both in academic departments/schools and in professional services, to identify a suitable system, to implement it, and to maintain it in the future so as to provide a quality service for those within and outside the University.

The Northeastern University Libraries are recruiting an Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources.

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Responsibilities include the direction, co-ordination, and development of the University Libraries collections and information resources, including digital initiatives, and of the Libraries' technical services activities, in order to ensure their overall operational effectiveness. In these areas the Associate Dean takes the leading role in planning, policy, and budget development and administration, fiscal management, the recruitment and supervision of staff, and consortial activity. She or he also has key leadership responsibility for development of the Libraries' scholarly communications and publishing initiatives. The Associate Dean works in a collaborative mode with a team-centered approach to problem-solving. As a member of the senior Administrative Group, the Associate Dean shares responsibility for developing and implementing the mission, goals, and broad policy directions of the University Libraries and coordinating initiatives with other University and Library senior administrators and managers. The Associate Dean also participates in leading the dynamic process of change in the transition to the hybrid print/digital library in a rapidly evolving research environment.

The Center for Research Libraries is recruiting a Web and Digital Library Specialist.

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Essential Duties:

• Conduct development and system administration on the Drupal content management system: evaluate and implement modules, implement and monitor work flows, develop site wide theming, templates, content types, etc.
• Develop and update web applications with database driven and/or XML based dynamic content
• Conduct interface design, integration and customization of Web applications and products acquired from third parties, including open source products
• Develop and implement applications to integrate web contents from multiple servers, including internal CRL web servers and those from partner institutions

The Harvard Law Library is recruiting a Manager of Digital Lab.

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The Harvard Law Library is seeking a creative and experienced innovator to provide strategic and operational leadership as the Manager of our Digital Lab. The Digital Lab is the Library's focal point for a wide range of activities, including developing internet tools to promote and enhance access to legal information and coordinating the library's digitization efforts. Reporting to the Associate Director for Collection Development and Digitization, the Manager of the Digital Lab leads the design, creation, and distribution of technological tools for delivering content and services in support of learning and research at the Harvard Law School and beyond; manages the Library's digitization projects, including those produced onsite and those outsourced to the University's Digital Imaging Group or other external entities; develops and implements division policies, plans, goals, and procedures; ensures appropriate staffing levels, staff skills, and output. The Manager will supervise a current full time staff of five; two Development Programmers, a Web Development Librarian, a Digital Preservation Librarian, and a Digital Projects Assistant, as well as project fellows.

The VIVOweb Project based in Cornell's Mann Library is recruiting nine software design/development/usability specialists.

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The VIVOweb Project is a two-year $12 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a national network of distributed Resource Description Framework (RDF) databases facilitating discovery of scientists and their research and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific exchange. The VIVO (http://vivo.cornell.edu) experts and resources network has been under development in Mann Library at Cornell since 2003 and is currently in use at Cornell and at the University of Florida. The latter is the lead institution in this multi-institution project.

The Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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Reporting to the Principal Manuscripts Processing Librarian, the Digital Archivist will help define and apply the methodology and standards of traditional archival best practice to born-digital collections. This work will be done as part of a grant project, Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS), funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by the University of Virginia.

Singapore Management University is recruiting a Digital Library Systems Specialist.

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The Library seeks a dynamic, innovative and service-oriented professional to join the Digital Library Systems Team in supporting and enhancing the new systems. Reporting to the Systems Librarian, the Digital Library Systems Specialist is primarily responsible for managing the Institutional Repository (IR). Other duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: assisting the Systems Librarian in managing the Digital Library systems including Millennium, the ILMS, and the other system modules from Innovative Interfaces Inc.; helping support the Library RFID management system; identifying and analyzing user requirements; providing optimal operation of information systems and supporting other technical staff in meeting user needs. The successful candidate will work in conjunction with the University Webmaster to support the library website and with the library staff to introduce web services and coordinate and support content development.

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Reporting to the Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources, the Digital Library Manager will build a digital library program, providing vision and leadership in the creation and delivery of digital content. The Manager will work closely and collaboratively with senior administrators, Archives and Special Collections, technical services and systems staff, and others to ensure fast-paced development of digital library initiatives which respond to the needs of the University community and align with collections and preservation priorities. These include the digitization of special collections and other library materials in text, image, and video formats, the further development of digital repository systems to preserve and make accessible the intellectual output of the University, and the implementation of discovery tools related to these initiatives.

The Indiana University Digital Library Program is recruiting an Analyst/Programmer, Digital Library Tools.

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Participates in the development and management of IU's digital repository system (based on the Fedora open source software platform) and associated software tools for ingestion and delivery of digital content. Designs, evaluates, programs, and implements Web-based software tools supporting access to and ingestion of digital content. Works with other DLP and IU staff to define requirements for tools to support delivery of image, text, audio, video, and data collections; evaluates potential commercial and open-source solutions; designs and tests user interfaces; designs, codes, and tests software; and defines and implements interfaces with other IU systems.

The Georgia Tech Library and Information Center is recruiting a Manager, GALILEO Knowledge Repository (three-year position).

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The Galileo Knowledge Repository (GKR) Manager is a repository professional responsible for the daily project management and overall development of the GKR as a service in Georgia. It is a three-year, IMLS-funded position residing at the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center, reporting to its Associate Director for Technology and Resource Services. The Manager will work closely with the grant project PIs (2), the liaisons at each partner institution (6), and the GKR committees. S/he will perform promotion and outreach activities as well as train and advise institutions with hosted IRs on metadata standards, submission to DSpace, copyright issues, and identifying and creating digital content. Partner training sessions will be conducted by the GKR Manager, with assistance by members of the GKR committees; they will be conducted virtually and onsite at the partner institutions. The GKR Manager also will provide guidance to the GKR Content Submission Service. These activities will be targeted at groups of partner institutions' faculty, librarians, and archivists at the seven GKR partner sites. The Manager will be a resource and lead the training program offered to others involved or interested in statewide and consortial IR initiatives. S/he will serve on the GKR committees — Steering, Technical, Content and Metadata, Outreach and Evaluation, and the Symposium and Workshop Committee. The GKR Manager will chair the Symposium and Workshop committee.

The University of Virginia Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist, Digital Curation Services (two-year position).

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The University of Virginia Library seeks a talented and dynamic individual to serve as Digital Archivist to a two-year grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This position will provide key leadership to a cohort of digital archivists from partner institutions (national and international) on this exciting initiative entitled: Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS). Reporting to the Director of Digital Curation Services, this position will provide the methodology and integration of archival practices to an ever-growing corpus of materials used by scholars, authors, and other notables: namely, born digital content. This is a collaborative project that will require the coordination of complex activities across several other institutions. The Digital Archivist will participate in the creation of a best practices manual for archivists and stewards of born-digital collections. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the crossroads of special collections materials and new technologies.

UKOLN is recruiting a Deputy Director.

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UKOLN is a centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities.

We are seeking to recruit a Deputy Director to provide outstanding leadership and strategic direction to all technical activity within UKOLN, to assure our position at the forefront of innovative Digital Library (DL) developments. This is a key senior post within the UKOLN organisation and will be based at the University of Bath.

The post requires vision, strategic insight and innovation associated with the implementation and development of DLs within the education, research or cultural heritage sectors. Applicants should have extensive and in-depth technical knowledge of DLs and associated interoperability issues, knowledge of emerging Web technologies and an understanding of their potential for education and research. An established international reputation in the DL arena, together with a track record for leading and shaping innovative activities, is highly desirable.

The post also requires significant experience of securing funding awards and income generation. Applicants will have extensive experience of leading teams, directing multiple projects to a successful outcome/completion and be outstanding communicators with well-developed influencing and negotiating skills and a proven ability to produce high quality reports, papers and presentations.

The West Virginia University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Librarian works with librarian colleagues to develop policies and procedures for the management of digital content and metadata for varied digital projects, conducts outreach to inform the campus and the state about digital initiatives, and maintains the Libraries’ open access informational web pages. The Librarian will assist with a growing collection of digital exhibits, book digitization projects, and a well-established institutional repository, WVU Scholar. The Libraries currently work with DLXS, DigiTool, and ExLibris/Voyager. The Librarian will work with the Provosts Office and the Office of Information Technology to coordinate institutional repository policy and procedures governing submission, use, access, and preservation. This position reports to the Head of the Cataloging Department.

The Centre for e-Research at King's College London is recruiting a Software Developer (C++/C and Linux/Unix) to work on the OCRopodium project, which is "investigating the use of the open source OCRopus software (http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/) for applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical and archival material" (fixed-term contract for 18 months).

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The successful applicant will be the key technical staff member for the project, and will be responsible for:

• Carrying out technical investigations into the functionality and architecture of OCRopus. As OCRopus is an actively growing open source project and thus imperfectly documented, this will in itself require an ability to understand the source code and debug the software.
• Developing and integrating software components for OCRing historical material, and enhancing existing components.
• Contributing new and enhanced components to the OCRopus open source project.
• Benchmarking and evaluation of OCRopus, in collaboration with our project partners at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB).
• Integrating OCR within broader digitisation and digital library workflows.

The Harvard University Library is recruiting a Digital Processing Librarian (0.5 FTE five month term appointment that will end on February 28, 2010).

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Under the general direction and supervision of the Open Collections Program (OCP) Manager, incumbent serves as member of highly collaborative production team to digitize historic collections. Responsibilities and tasks will include: contributing to materials preparation, tracking, and transfer activities; and undertaking digital object review, troubleshooting, and enhancement. Will liaise with curators, conservators, digitization service providers, and other members of the OCP team to designate selected items to appropriate workflows in a timely manner. Performs regular updates to the OCP Workflow Database to ensure that item and batch-level information is accurate and complete.

Dickinson State University is recruiting a Theodore Roosevelt Center Digital Library Coordinator/Archivist.

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Dickinson State University invites applications for the Theodore Roosevelt Center Digital Library Coordinator/Archivist position. The goal of the Theodore Roosevelt Center is to serve scholars, tourists, teachers, curious citizens, and students of all ages as they explore the life and achievements of the 26th President of the United States. The Theodore Roosevelt Center Digital Library Coordinator/Archivist will manage the acquisition and cataloging of materials to be included in the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library; maintain imaging and metadata standards for the project and provide support to contributing entities and train and supervise volunteers to assist with the cataloging of the collection. The Coordinator/Archivist will be expected to explore and guide the implementation of new technologies, including Web 2.0; meet research and reference needs of patrons; manage project resources and establish processing priorities and oversee day-to-day production workflows. As part of the Center project team, the Coordinator/Archivist will participate in planning the promotion of the collection for use by a wide variety of patrons and will respond to requests for digital images in support of Theodore Roosevelt Center and other university initiatives. Explore the initiatives of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.com

The University of the Arts London is recruiting both an institutional repository manager and an institutional repository administrator.

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[Manager] Working with the University research community and other stakeholders, you will manage and develop the Institutional Repository (UAL Research Online) to meet the needs of the University, with particular reference to the University Research Strategy and HEFCE's Research Excellence Framework.

[Administrator; 17.5 hours per week. one-year fixed-term contract] You will be assisting in the management, customisation, promotion and exploitation of the University Institutional Repository (UAL Research Online). You will also assist in the depositing of electronic theses, including participation in the EThOS service and you will provide support and training to users of UAL Research Online.

George Washington University's Gelman Library System is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer Analyst.

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• Assists with the installation, maintenance and customization of programming related to open source and commercial, off-the-shelf software applications/enhancements and modifications to meet current and projected needs; reviews and modifies systems programs as needed to correct utility or application programs.
• Serves as the primary XML-XSLT programmer.
• Deploys XML-based product DigiTool (Ex-Libris). DigiTool is GLS's digital object management platform.
• Defines and implements programmatic interfaces with other Digital Library systems.
• Applies principles of usability, accessibility and assessment to develop effective interfaces and navigation structures to meet user needs.
• Provides web application programming; maintains web software applications; develops and/or maintains documentation and procedures/programs manuals to indicate system/program logic; and may perform content management for GLS' website.
• Designs and develops web interface to SQL databases; Linux and Windows server system administration to include installing patches and programming modules, writing Perl scripts, creating SQL Select Queries (custom Voyager Library System), and may provide programming support related to Metalib, SFX, and locally developed applications.