Digital Library Jobs – Page 21

Chief Data Officer, Office of Digital Transformation at Smithsonian Institution

The Chief Data Officer leads development of the SI Data Strategy for the Institution to include associated policies, guidelines, best practices, and an implementation approach to enable Smithsonian’s digital transformation, aligned with the Smithsonian’s Strategic Plan, best practices and federal data strategies and requirements where applicable. Spearheads Institutional efforts to manage data and data assets at every stage of the data lifecycle by establishing effective procedures, standards, and controls to ensure quality, accuracy, access, and protection of data, as well as managing information resources.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/743322800

Systems Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University

Lead the unit responsible for managing the library’s systems, which includes the day-to-day operation and support of the following: the library’s LSP (FOLIO); the servers and configurations for Nagios, EZproxy, VuFind, Matomo, DSpace, Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP); ILLiad configuration and upgrades; and Veeam, the systems’ data backup solution. . . .

Advise the CDM Chair in articulating a user-centered, holistic vision to meet current and emerging information needs, technology, and new collection/content building and delivery models. Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and vendors to develop, coordinate, and implement policies and practices within the LSP (FOLIO).

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Project Manager at University of Chicago (4 Year Term)

The Project Manager will manage and coordinate the NEH-funded UChicagoNode project (https://tinyurl.com/53azpe9v). UChicagoNode is initially a four-year partnership between the University of Chicago Library and the Humanities Division to bring together existing digital resources and services from Library and Faculty projects into a comprehensive, modernized, sustainable digital ecosystem.

During its four-year period of NEH funding, it will make digital collections and research outputs accessible through a distributed infrastructure that will allow modelling, analysis and sharing of content while ensuring its long-term preservation. UChicagoNode will play a central role in supporting the ongoing growth of digital humanities at the University and, given the University’s role as one of the world’s leading academic institutions, promises to have global impact.

https://tinyurl.com/nfx6y2fd

Assistant Librarian for Experiential Learning at Northern Arizona University

Reporting to the Head of User Services and Experience, the successful candidate will coordinate the delivery of an outstanding and immersive user experience by overseeing, expanding, and building campus-wide partnerships around creation spaces in the Cline Library. The Cline Library hosts several high-profile creation spaces including the MakerLab and the Studios (including a Virtual Reality Studio, XR Creation Studio, Photography Studio, One-Button Studio, and three AV Production Studios). All programs provide materials, tools, technologies, training, and support for immersive experiential learning. The successful candidate will lead these programs and develop new creation spaces by acting as liaison to campus departments, actively seeking out opportunities for new partnerships, and conducting environmental scans of other academic institutions.

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User Experience Designer at Stanford University

The User Experience Designer will take a primary role in understanding user requirements, defining functionality, and designing the interface and application flow of digital library services and web properties in order to meet user needs. The successful candidate will work on a variety of projects relating to the core functions of an academic library and its digital library, including discovery and fulfillment systems, digital object access and presentation, and many other patron-facing services. You will also work with your colleagues to ensure that our applications and services meet accessibility guidelines and best practices. Understanding and designing open standards and open source software will be part of the work of the position.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb66t9k

Software Engineer at Indiana University

Under limited supervision, performs software front-end design, programming, and other tasks required for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of Library Technologies (LT) software systems, primarily in support of digital media services delivery. Serves as high-level technical support resource for software systems, including the Avalon Media System, coordinating with librarians, local support providers, Avalon partners and adopting institutions, and other frontend support providers as needed, as well as with other LT technical staff. Diagnoses problems reported by users and makes and tests software code changes to correct problems.

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Robert Creeley Papers Project Digital Archivist at Stanford University (Term)

The Robert Creeley Papers Project Archivist will process the born-digital component of the Robert Creeley papers. This collection documents the life and work of this influential American poet of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The Project Archivist will work with the grant project team, including the Project Director, Project Manager, and Project Assistant to determine and implement required processes for workflows, including appraisal, transfer, discovery, access, and preservation for stewarding the born-digital component Robert Creeley papers. The Project Archivist will contribute to the definition and documentation of born-digital curation processes to create a model for future processing projects

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Scholarly Communications & Social Sciences Librarian at DePaul University

Serves as the expert on scholarly communication, including open educational resources, alternative publishing models, open access publishing, scholarly visibility and impact, online identity management, and equitable access to scholarly output. Supports digital scholarship by promoting the library’s institutional repository and other scholarly communication tools.

Develops and maintains collaborative partnerships within the Library and with faculty, staff and students, facilitating a seamless, interdisciplinary, and university-wide network supporting faculty and students in research publication and impact.

https://tinyurl.com/4fn9upkr

Digital Archivist and Publishing Librarian at American Dental Association

The Digital Publishing Librarian is responsible for the design, development and implementation of ADACommons, the ADAs institutional repository, and will provide leadership and guidance to state and local societies in migrating publishing and archiving functions to ADACommons. The DPL will contribute to the development and delivery of education and training in all aspects of ADACommons and related scholarly communications programs and services to the ADA tripartite, including promoting new forms of scholarly publishing, communicating issues impacting the changing scholarly publishing landscape, and providing support for ADACommons digital publishing platform.

https://tinyurl.com/yuzu3dze

GIS Librarian for Instruction & Engagement at University of Miami

The GIS Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, reporting to the Director of Research Data & Open Scholarship, within the Data & Visualization Services unit, is responsible for providing GIS-oriented pedagogical services, including workshops, course support, and small group/one-on-one instruction for a range of disciplines across the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

https://tinyurl.com/yjn47dh6

Data Curation & Visualization Librarian at University of Miami

The Data Curation & Visualization Librarian, reporting to the Director of Research Data & Open Scholarship, within the Data & Visualization Services unit, is responsible for data-oriented pedagogical and support services for students, faculty and staff across all three UM campuses. The first component, data-oriented support services, will focus on providing expertise on research data management, data curation, data literacy, and data publishing. The second component is teaching, including workshops, course support, and small group/one-on-one instruction for a range of disciplines across the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, with particular emphasis on data visualizations (e.g., data dashboards, GIS visualizations, StoryMaps, and static images for print journals).

https://tinyurl.com/2bfa35sz

Director of Digital Collections at Texas A&M University

The Librarian Director will direct the development and implementation of the University Library’s Digital Collections and associated projects supporting Texas A&M University Colleges, Schools, Agencies, and other educational institutions. The selected candidate will oversee the acquisition, development, and integration of technologies and systems that support the full spectrum of digital objects and services. Additionally, the Director will lead the operational decisions impacting the Libraries’ digital collections and digital collection development, as well as collaborating with Web & User Experiences, and Technology Services to validate, maintain, and develop integration points in Digital Asset Management Systems and other applicable applications.

https://tinyurl.com/4p2zm9vy

Digital Library Services Specialist at Grinnell College

The Digital Library Services Specialist will oversee and coordinate the services of Burling Library’s digital scholarship studio in support of faculty, staff, and student digital project work. The digital scholarship studio will provide equipment and support for digitization, audio-visual media production, and other humanistic digital methods. This position will have primary responsibility for maintenance and basic support for studio equipment and software, including creating and maintaining accessible documentation for entry-level users. In collaboration with librarians and DLAC staff, the Specialist will develop, coordinate, and promote programming for the digital scholarship studio.

https://jobs.grinnell.edu/postings/5137

Technical Lead, Digital Library Systems at National Library of Ireland

As Technical Lead, you’ll manage, lead and develop the Digital Library Systems team, currently comprising two senior software developers and the NLI’s Systems Librarian. You’ll provide technical leadership in planning, developing, and implementing the NLI’s library systems infrastructure. Working with the Head of Digital Collections and the NLI’s ICT Operations lead, you will play a leading role in architecting the next generation of library systems and infrastructure, leveraging Public Cloud offerings (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS). The role will have with a particular focus on developing infrastructure and services that enable innovative re-use of the national collections by NLI staff, researchers, digital scholarship projects, third-party developers, and the public at large, e.g. programmatic access to our digital assets and metadata by developing a simple and coherent set of APIs.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3sw47j

Senior Developer & Operations Specialist (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge

Cambridge University Libraries are currently undertaking an exciting five-year Digital Preservation Programme to establish a new Digital Preservation Service.

Based at the main University Library, an exciting opportunity has come up for a Senior Developer and Operations (DevOps) specialist working on the Digital Preservation Programme. The Programme is a ground-breaking first for the University Library and is transformative, delivering the foundations for the management of digital collections for the future, with ambitious goals to achieve the best user experience and maximise the potential of precious digital collections in a long-term and sustainable way.

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41841/

Library Software Applications Developer at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill

The Library Software Applications Developer will serve as a technical lead and software developer on large-scale projects supporting the campus Open Access initiatives and the scholarly repository infrastructure. The campus Open Access initiatives and the scholarly repository infrastructure includes the Carolina Digital Repository, digital preservation infrastructure, and systems to support staff workflows related to the research activity of the university. These projects make use of several programming languages, including Ruby and JavaScript, as well as supporting systems, such as indexing platforms, relational databases, and media servers.

https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/263314

Assistant Head, Digitization Services Section at Library of Congress

The Digitization Services Section of the Digital Collections Management and Services Division at the Library of Congress is hiring an Assistant Head. The successful candidate will lead a team of digital imaging specialists working to improve access to Library of Congress Collections through digitization and work with colleagues across the Library of Congress to implement the institutions digitization strategy.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/742495200

Open Hosting Developer at University of Edinburgh

This position will be the dedicated developer for the open journal systems and open monograph press instances we host at the University of Edinburgh for Edinburgh Diamond, and our shared service for the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) and other external partners.

https://tinyurl.com/yt3fdfa7

Open Source Program Office Project Program Manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison

UW-Madison’s Data Science Institute is seeking a Project Program Manager to lead the establishment and day-to-day management of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a new unit on the UW-Madison campus. Hosted within UW-Madison’s Data Science Institute (DSI) and collaborating with Madison College, the Data Science Hub, and the UW-Madison Libraries, the OSPO will grow a culture of open research and provide support for open practices both on the UW-Madison campus and within the Madison area.

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Data Applications Librarian Lecturer at University of Kentucky (Term)

Develop and share expertise on best practices and workflows for data refinement, analysis, visualization, and modeling with an emphasis on open and reproducible practices.

Provide support in the use of software tools or APIs which enable qualitative and/or quantitative data analysis (e.g. REDCap, Python, R, Qualtrics, SAS, SPSS, NVIVO, Stata, MATLAB, etc.). Build proficiency with programming languages to refine and transform data.

Assist researchers working with structured data, data markup, and encoding, with consideration for eventual deposit to repositories.

Offer individual and research team consultations for students, faculty, and researchers across all academic disciplines and colleges. Serve on grant and project teams as appropriate.

https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/481260

Data Steward (Two Positions) at The University of Manchester

The Office for Open Research is coordinating a project to establish a network of data stewards and build the model for data stewardship across the University. . . . It involves the formalisation of roles and responsibilities, and their application, to ensure that research objects are managed for long-term reuse, and in accordance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.

Data stewards support researchers with their research data management, including advocating for open and FAIR data, by acting as the first point of contact for enquiries, a link to central services (such as the Library, IT, Information Governance) and as experts in data practices in the disciplines they support.

https://tinyurl.com/36z33uep

Librarian (Data Curator) at U.S. Department of Transportation

Be responsible for researching best practices in data curation and preservation and making recommendations for improving NTL systems. Provide recommendations for (a) data standards, formats, and metadata policies; (b) data management and preservation plans; and (c) data dissemination and outreach.

Research metadata standards for all data formats and types, with a focus on needs for mid- and long-term preservation in order to keep abreast of developments in the areas of data management, data curation, and information sciences.

Serve as a resource in developing data management standards for scientific and technical information (STI) datasets, as well as other non-STI datasets that are important for the Department.

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Scholarly Services Librarian at University of Minnesota

The Scholarly Services Librarian has primary responsibility for monitoring the scholarship of the Law School’s faculty, and developing and implementing strategies that will maximize its discoverability and scholarly impact. Specific responsibilities include: assisting faculty members in creating and maintaining scholarly profiles; creating and maintaining faculty publication pages on the Law School’s website; managing the Faculty Scholarship collection in the Law School’s Scholarship Repository; serving as the Law School’s SSRN Administrator; and compiling information for the Law School Administration regarding faculty publication activity.

This position has primary responsibility for the management of the Law School’s Scholarship Repository, an open access repository on the Digital Commons platform. In addition to the Faculty Scholarship collection, the Repository includes collections of scholarship produced by the Law School’s journals, and research centers and institutes. Video recordings, papers, and other materials from selected Law School lectures, conferences, and other events are also contained in the Repository.

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Digital Collection Processing Specialist at University of California, Santa Barbara

Under the direction of the Head of Special Collection Processing Unit and working collaboratively with the Curators and Selectors, the Archival Processing team, and staff in Resource Acquisition & Discovery Services (ReADS), the Digital Collection Processing Specialist supports the processing of digital and born-digital special collections, including workflows and processes related to collection digitization, collection management and processing, and web archiving activities. . . . They collaborate with library colleagues to support the development of electronic records lifecycle management programs and workflows. This position contributes to both the Special Collections Processing Unit’s and ReADS’ policies, procedures, and the design of productive workflows.

https://tinyurl.com/2mad2uvd

Digital Library Application Programmer at University of Florida

Work with other members of the Digital Development Team to design, implement and maintain web and database systems which effectively deliver digital resources, track resource usage during digitization, and facilitate the compilation of analytical data in support of the Digital Support Services department. The underlying programming, scripting, query, and markup languages involved may include, but are not limited to Python/Django, PostgreSQL, React.js, JavaScript, C#, XML, HTML5 and CSS, with initial emphasis on React.js serving backend APIs.

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