VRA Jobs Digest

• Digital Collections Librarian, University of Richmond, Richmond VA
  • The Digital Collections Librarian works closely with faculty, departments and programs across the university to identify, transform, store and share digital works, and leads daily digitization operations within Discovery, Technology and Publishing. This role includes digital conversion, hardware and software maintenance and troubleshooting, data quality control, creation and maintenance of workflows, and statistical reporting.
• Kathryn Turner Diversity and Technology Internship (Paid, summer), Smithsonian Libraries, Washington DC
  • The theme of this year’s project is “Enhancing Library Metadata”. The intern will help investigate and experiment with a method of creating a filter-by-color in the Smithsonian Libraries Image Gallery. An algorithm will be researched or developed to detect the predominant color on an image that will be added to the existing metadata for the image. This process will then be included in our existing workflow for new images in the Image Gallery. If time permits, a second phase of the internship will be to extract and transform transcriptions from the SI Transcription Center to prepare and include them in our Digital Library website.
• Myers-Briggs Project Coordinator, University of Florida, Gainesville FL
  • Creates and enhances descriptive metadata, Oversees digitization process and provides quality control for records, Project Management...
• Director of the Digital Research Commons, University of Houston, Houston TX
  • The Director of the Digital Research Commons will be a key leader in UH Libraries expansion of services for advancing the digital research productivity of UH faculty, staff, and students. Reporting to the Head of Digital Research Services, the director will manage the day-to-day activities of the Digital Research Commons. Coordinating with Libraries’ external partners, including the UH Division of Research, the Center for Advanced Computing and Data Services, and colleges, the director will contribute to faculty and student digital scholarship projects by providing services for collaboration, program planning, and interdisciplinary digital projects.
• Digital Assets Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford MS
  • The position is a twelve-month, tenure track, assistant professorship to work closely with library personnel to identify and prioritize materials for addition to the library’s digital collections and publications. The successful candidate will have experience in digital collection processing of analog and born-digital materials (digitization and digital curation), familiarity with project management (production, capture, access, description and preservation), familiarity with digital asset management systems, familiarity with library standards (EAD, MARC, Dublin Core, etc.), familiarity with digital preservation, and strong communication skills.
• Digital Initiatives Librarian, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS
  • This individual will be responsible for leading efforts to advance Kansas State University Libraries' unique collections with enhanced discovery through digitization. The incumbent will lead and participate in the strategic development of innovative, scalable, and sustainable digital collections. The individual will lead the Digital Initiatives Unit and directly supervise 2 FTE, coordinate digitization work between Library units and departments and serve as a member of the Metadata, Preservation, & Digital Initiatives Management Team.
• Collections and Scholarly Communications Librarian, National Louis University, Skokie IL
  • • Provides strategic leadership, management, and direction for planning integrated access to print and electronic resources, including digital collections, digital preservation, digital scholarship, and the digital repository
    • Collaborates on e-resources management, acquisitions workflows, collections budget, and related projects with the Instruction and Electronic Resources Librarian and the Metadata and Systems Librarian
    • Promotes the visibility, accessibility, research, scholarship, and teaching of NLU’s scholarly resources, including the Special Collections & Archives and institutional repository
• Associate Librarian of Public Services, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
  • The Associate Librarian manages reference, access services, outreach and instruction. Recruits new employees and supports and empowers an existing team of skilled and professional staff. Works with Library and Museum staff to provide strategic planning and assessment for an organization that embraces technology, fosters community engagement, and supports scholarship, discovery and resource sharing. Represents the Rakow Library and The Corning Museum of Glass in professional organizations and conferences at the state and national level.
• Head of Digital Collections and Preservation Systems, Columbia University, NYC
  • Columbia University Libraries (CUL) is seeking a dynamic library information professional to provide leadership in support of its expanding programs in digital collection building, digital archives and digital preservation. The acquisition, provision of access, and preservation of digitized and born-digital content and cultural heritage materials is a major programmatic area within the Libraries. CUL is engaged in a number of exciting, high-profile digital initiatives, grant-supported projects and software development and implementation programs, and is also involved in collaborative activities with other research libraries and colleague institutions.
• Project Archivist, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL
  • The Norton Museum of Art, located in West Palm Beach, FL is seeking a Project Archivist to work on appraisal, housing, organization, and cataloguing of Norton Museum archival materials. This is a full-time, non-exempt grant funded position, reporting to the Curator of American Art.