Category: Digital Library Jobs

Los Alamos National Laboratory is recruiting a Digital Information Technologist.

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The Research Library seeks an experienced Digital Information Technologist. The main responsibility of the position will be the design, development, usability, implementation and management of digital library services with an initial focus on the Research Library's institutional repository. The Digital Information Technologist is expected to maintain a keen awareness of trends in digital tools and services, and will pursue opportunities for enhancing digital services through the adoption of new technologies, linked data practices, projects to develop new digital services, collaborations and partnerships.

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Ohio State University is recruiting a Data Services Specialist for Outreach and Education (2 year term appointment).

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The Data Services Specialist for Outreach and Education will join the Data Management Librarian to develop instructional programming and documentation to assist faculty and students in managing the lifecycle of data resulting from research projects of all types. The successful candidate will work with colleagues, engage the campus in broader conversations around e-science and e-scholarship and will contribute to the Libraries' initiatives to adapt, design and develop tools and services for organizing, storing and sharing research data.

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The College of Charleston is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

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The Digital Projects Librarian serves as Project Coordinator to both the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), striving to expand these projects and promote the history of the region. They will work with librarians, faculty members, and LCDL and LDHI partners, scholars, and contributors to digitize collections and create digital exhibits that support research about the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and historically interconnected sites in the Atlantic World. This position will keep abreast of trends in the creation, maintenance, and migration of digital collections and exhibits, and will make recommendations to improve procedures and access.

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The University of Houston is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.

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The Data Services Librarian will collaborate with subject liaison librarians across disciplines to provide expert support for faculty and students working with geospatial, numeric, statistical, and other data. Such support may include instruction in methodologies and tools, especially those related to Geographic Information Systems (GIS); analysis and visualization of data; and development and promotion of dataset collections.

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Bryn Mawr College is recruiting a Digital Collections Librarian.

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The Digital Collections Librarian is responsible for coordinating the creation, presentation and preservation of the College's digital collections; for evaluating and implementing new digital collections systems; and for playing a leading role in establishing standards and best practices for digitization and metadata. S/he will be part of the Special Collections Department, and will report to the Associate Chief Information Officer/Director of Special Collections. S/he will also work closely on digital collections with colleagues in the Special Collections Department; within Library and Information Technology Services (LITS), particularly colleagues working in digital scholarship and pedagogy; and with colleagues across the Tri-College Libraries.

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Ohio State University is recruiting a Data Visualization Specialist.

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The Data Visualization Specialist will help researchers and project teams understand and use data visualization techniques to support their work; support the research agendas of faculty and students, enhance curricula, and encourage research innovation across the University relating to data visualization and visual thinking; provide consulting services to faculty and students and collaborate with other campus units already providing visualization and design services; work closely with the Data Management Services Librarian, the Digital Humanities Librarian, the GIS Specialist, the Head of Digital Initiatives, and others in both the Research Commons and elsewhere in University Libraries to increase understanding of visual data issues…

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MIT is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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Reporting to the Digital Archivist and Program Head for Born -digital Archives, the Digital Archivist for Records Management will acquire and process historically and institutionally significant digital collections for the IASC. As part of the Archives Collections team, the Archivist will provide advice and training regarding digital records management and transfer, appraise hybrid and born-digital collections, use digital forensics tools and techniques to triage digital material, and preparation of digital objects for preservation. The Digital Archivist for Records Management will implement and manage the Web archiving program for the MIT Libraries, which is based in the IASC and focused on Institute -created material. They will also be the lead resource for digital records management issues and solutions.

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UCLA is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator.

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Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Licensing the Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator (SCPC) coordinates and provides paraprofessional support for all scholarly communication activities assumed by the Scholarly Communications and Licensing department. The SCPC serves as a "first responder" to questions from faculty, students, researchers, and librarians and library staff related to copyright, fair use, open access, open educational resources, and other scholarly-communication-related queries.

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North Carolina State University is recruiting a Head, Learning Spaces & Services.

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The Learning Spaces & Services department, part of the Libraries' newly formed Student Success division, provides dynamic services, spaces, and technologies to enable all forms of learning, discovery, and research. Through its workshops, programs, and activities, students and faculty in all disciplines can explore and apply tools and systems for data visualization, 3D modeling, virtual environments, and digital media creation in their research and study. The department has overall responsibility for learning spaces including Learning Commons, Makerspaces, Digital Media Studios, and the Creativity Studio, as well as several teaching labs.

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Brown University is recruiting a Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship.

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The Brown University Library is delighted to announce a new position: the Director of its Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). CDS is a locus for digital activities at Brown, providing expertise and training in text analysis, text encoding, data management, geospatial analysis and data, digital publishing and scholarly project management. Members of CDS partner with faculty and students on developing and sustaining digital projects.

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The University of Michigan is recruiting an Applications Programmer.

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled programmer to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives including development of a system architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus based on Hydra and Fedora.

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Columbia University Libraries is recruiting an Ivy Plus Web Resources Collection Librarian.

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Columbia University Libraries seeks an experienced information professional to build, maintain and promote a collaborative web resources collection program supporting the Ivy Plus partnership of academic research libraries. Since starting exploratory web archiving activity in 2008, Columbia has established a permanent web resources collection program and built rich thematic web archives in human rights, historic preservation/urban planning, and New York City religious institutions, as well as preserving much of Columbia’s own content and web content related to existing special collections. Several other Ivy Plus partner institutions also have new or established web archiving programs, and the group now plans to collaboratively build some thematic web collections together, independent of (but informed by) each institution’s own web archiving activities.

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MIT is recruiting a Program Head, Data Management Services.

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Reporting to the Head of Data and Specialized Services (DSS) , the program head will lead an interdepartmental team that develops and supports research data services offered to the MIT Community. The program head will manage the development and operation of the DMS portfolio of projects and services. S/he will enable collaborative work and efficient group process among DMS team members, facilitate their professional development, and serve as the supervisor (direct and indirect) to team members.

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Boston College is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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The Digital Scholarship Librarian will employ both experience with History research methods and technical expertise to advance the integration of library liaison responsibilities and digital humanities to the History Department. We are seeking a creative librarian familiar with History collections and instruction who is motivated to investigate new tools and collaborate with faculty, students, and other librarians to initiate and support digital projects. This Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer advances digital scholarship by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance, focusing on applications in the humanities, as well as providing liaison services for the History Department.

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The University of Michigan Library is recruiting a Project Manager for Digital Collections

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking a librarian to be a project manager, with experience in the creation of digital collections and the software and applications that are the base of those collections. The successful candidate will collaborate with a team of librarians, programmers, and other experts on a major initiative to build a new digital library system architecture. The new system will make use of recent developments in the open source community and will handle a wide array of materials: text and images, video, music, research data sets, historical records, and more.

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UC Irvine is recruiting a Digital Library Developer Analyst.

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This position performs operational level management of the Libraries' digital repositories and digital preservation systems under the general supervision of the Head, Digital Scholarship Services. This includes providing technical support to repository users, scripting work flow processes, and managing feature development to adapt and expand repositories' functions in support of the Libraries' strategic digital initiatives.

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The University of Houston is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Coordinator.

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Reporting to Head of Digital Research Services, the coordinator will partner with colleagues and units within the Libraries to advance digital research services and activities, including: providing services to publish, archive, and make accessible research data and scholarship; marketing UH Libraries' digital scholarship expertise; and collaborating with Libraries' stakeholders to enhance programming in the Digital Research Commons.

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George Washington University is recruiting a Director, Scholarly & Library Information Technology Services.

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The Director is responsible for advancing the GW Library's mission to support research, teaching and learning by delivering relevant services including research-oriented search and discovery systems, GW's expert finding system, the integrated library system, desktop support within Library spaces, institutional repository, website development, and consultation services (GIS, software development) for faculty and students. In many instances, active engagement with community-driven open source software development efforts is vital to advancing the University's interests.

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North Carolina State University is recruiting NCSU Libraries Fellows, 2017-2019.

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The NCSU Libraries is proud to offer a unique opportunity to a select group of M.L.S. and M.I.S. graduates whose degrees will be conferred between September 2016 and August 2017. Fellows are appointed at the faculty rank of librarian for a two-year term from July 2017 through June 2019. An option for January or September placement may be available, depending upon graduation date. The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program offers the opportunity to launch your career in a leading research library.

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The University of Texas at Arlington is recruiting a Scholarly Impact & Social Sciences Librarian.

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1. Scholarly Impact and Digital Identity a. Outreaches to and advocates for faculty and graduate students on different tools to enhance their digital identity, such as unique scholarly identifiers, institutional repositories, blogs, and academic social networks b. Consults with faculty on the research metrics associated with their scholarship and on research metrics platforms like plumx c. Constructs data visualizations to display faculty research metrics d. Assesses the campus climate around altmetrics and other new research metrics

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Northwestern University is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head of Repository and Digital Curation, the Digital Preservation Librarian designs, coordinates and executes the day-to-day operations of repository preservation services for significant digitized and born-digital collections. The Digital Preservation Librarian will provide leadership and collaborate with library experts to help manage digitized and born digital collections for preservation and access, develop digital preservation policies, design and coordinate the implementation of and manage digital preservation workflows.

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The Texas Digital Library is recruiting a Senior Systems Administrator.

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Overseeing the administration of systems, applications and other tools supporting scholarly communication activities as key services of the Texas Digital Library, including repositories, preservation systems, the Vireo Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Management System. Provide lead system administration for DSpace repository management. Provide operational management and oversight of applications and systems for TDL services.

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Virginia Tech is recruiting a Digital Publishing Specialist.

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Reports to the Director, Publishing Strategy: Virginia Tech's University Libraries seek a full-time Digital Publishing Specialist with a passion for scholarly communication and an eagerness to grow with the latest trends and best practices to help expand the libraries' publishing services into new and emerging areas of research and scholarship. Virginia Tech was an early leader in digital publishing, having hosted open access, peer-reviewed journals since 1989 and electronic theses and dissertations since 1996. The Digital Publishing Specialist will play a key role in shaping the libraries' publishing services as they grow to meet the evolving needs of the community.

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Yale University is recruiting a Discovery Metadata Librarian.

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The Discovery Metadata Librarian will participate in the ongoing development of the library's Hydra/Fedora/Blacklight/Ladybird infrastructure, and will coordinate metadata activities and advise on metadata function improvement, enhancement, and troubleshooting in Ladybird. The incumbent will perform analysis, remediation, and normalization of metadata in the library's online catalogs, and Quicksearch discovery layer. The Discovery Metadata Librarian will also manage metadata projects, develop workflows, and provide training to staff in order to advance the library's metadata and discovery services. He/She will apply programming and scripting skills in support of the technical requirements and production needs for metadata creation, conversion, enhancement, and maintenance, and will develop and/or customize applications and tools for automation and innovation.

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