VRA Jobs Digest

• *Paid Internship* Photo Keywording Controlled Vocabulary Intern, Trunk Archive, NYC
  • You will be responsible for establishing keyword hierarchies and relationships, identifying synonyms, standardizing formatting, merging keyword duplicates, and additional vocabulary duties. You will also perform keyword searches on the website to assess search results and keyword relevance.
• Digital Scholarship Librarian, Georgetown University, Washington DC
  • Georgetown University Library seeks an innovative and collaborative information professional to serve as Digital Scholarship Librarian. This is a forward-looking, transformative role for an individual with a passion for range of cutting-edge activities within digital scholarship, including building new digital projects, developing digital scholarship services in support of research, teaching and learning, including collaborations with faculty, researchers, students, and other partners.
• Freelance Assistant Photo Researcher, Refinery29, NYC
  • Work closely with editorial team to illustrate various stories across the site for categories ranging in Entertainment, Beauty, Fashion, Global News
  • Discerning appropriate imagery for sensitive breaking news stories that involve violence or natural disasters
  • Vast knowledge of photo agencies and pricing structures as well as licensing terms.
  • Coming up with creative solves and dynamic imagery for stories that around the similar topics or celebrities
  • Basic photoshop and retouching techniques such as color correcting, siloing, layer masking, image sizing, and attention to fine details
  • Track daily image purchases and costs in monthly usage document
  • Will be responsible for concept and produce original R29 stock archive photo shoots. Basic production skills a plus but will train candidates.
  • Must have a positive and engaging work ethic, positive attitude when being forward facing with superiors and coworkers.
• Institutional Repository Content Manager, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
  • Monitor trends in digital library & Institutional Repositories (IR) areas within academia, providing the executive leadership team with the necessary information to ensure Case is prepared for potential changes by continually investigating and providing KSL leadership with expertise about emerging trends, risks, opportunities, and resources and recommending possible courses of action. Engage with the Fedora & Hydra open source communities, to help meet our goals and to support the greater community.  Manage the use, development and progress of the IR. Manage the digitization workflow for projects destined for the IR, including the coordination of efforts by other teams involved in the process, including the establishing of standards and deadlines for an efficient workflow. Provide instruction on use of the IR and data management processes associated with IR use.
• Digital Learning and Scholarship Librarian, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH
  • Digital Services and Research Support. Consult and partner with faculty and student researchers to support their research data lifecycles by providing expertise in digital project development and management (including tools, software, and repository). Meet regularly with faculty in order to learn about their research and instruction needs and determine how best to deliver digital scholarship support across campus.
  • Digital Instruction. Provide high-quality instruction on digital tools that support the teaching, learning, and research processes. Deliver high quality instruction using a variety of techniques and formats.
  • Digital Scholarship Programming. Manage the Freedman Fellows Program and assist with the development, coordination, and execution of other programs initiated by the Digital Learning and Scholarship Team (i.e., Digital Scholarship Colloquium, Digital Scholarship Meetups).
  • Client Engagement. Market to, educate and engage faculty and students about digital scholarship and forge new collaborations and relationships that extend the Libraries’ capacity to support the University’s digital scholarship needs. Regularly engage in providing demonstrations to faculty and students of emerging scholarly resources and technologies.
• Digitization Specialist, Appalachian State University, Boone NC
  • This position consists of the conservation, preservation and restoration of digital objects and related printed matter including rare books, works of art, documents, photographs, and analog audio visual materials.
• Project Manager, International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
  • The Project Manager is responsible for coordinating the production of approximately 35,000 digital objects to support the “Women of Design” mass-digitization project. The successful candidate will direct the workflow for the project, manage daily activities, and supervise staff and students. The Project Manager will oversee the selection and digitization of original materials, assist with background historical research on items for potential digitization, resolve potential copyright or privacy concerns, review scanned items and metadata for quality control, and assist with uploading and preserving the digital content. With assistance from project leaders, the Project Manager will ensure that project goals are met, technical standards and professional practices are followed, the project is successfully promoted, and the financial expenditures are carefully monitored.
• Project Digitization Specialist, International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
  • The Project Digitization Specialist will have primary responsibility for scanning items selected for digitization and creating associated metadata for those digital items. In addition, they will assist with completing background historical research on items for potential digitization, identify items for potential copyright or privacy concerns, and review scanned items and metadata for quality control. They will also collaborate with other staff in the University Libraries to ensure that technical standards and professional practices are followed, monitor production numbers, and work with participants to meet project deadlines.
• Library Assistant, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dallas TX
  • he Library Assistant reports to the Senior Director of Library & Archives and is responsible for the acquisition of library resources; handling the paperwork for library donations to the Library & Archives; managing the inventory and physical space for library collections; and assisting with public programming at the Library & Archives.
• Digital Content Coordinator, Providence Public Library, Providence RI
  • he position of Digital Content Coordinator requires an innovative and collegial individual to bring creativity, expertise and leadership to the digital initiatives of Providence Public Library. This hybrid position combines technological ingenuity, library collections and resources and is responsible for creating, sharing and promoting library materials online, including AskRI.org. In addition to supporting AskRI.org, the Statewide Reference Resource Center, this position is charged with creating content for provlib.org to inform, educate and inspire the public. This position also supervises a varying number of digital technology & scanning specialists who perform the actual scanning and metadata entry required to move projects forward.
• Image Library Archivist, BOSS Group, San Ramon CA
  • Provide support issues related to metadata and corporate taxonomy, information retention, protection and intellectual property concerns 
  • Skilled in the areas of library science, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and research analysis 
  • Ingest, catalogue, store and retrieve digital assets; understand protocols for downloading, renaming, backing up, rating, grouping, archiving, optimizing, maintaining and exporting files 
  • Manage incoming requests for digital images submitted by business partners 
  • Fulfill digital image requests by downloading existing assets, repurposing existing assets or identifying and recommending purchase of new assets 
  • Ensure that all downloaded, repurposed or created assets match requirements (color space, size, resolution, format, etc.) from request prior to fulfilling 
  • Scan and file signatures 
  • Add metadata to digital files and file assets in appropriate server 
  • Accurately maintain and update asset servers 
  • Accurately maintain and update image database, following set procedures
• Registrar/Archivist, Simon Preston Gallery, NYC
  • The Registrar oversees all aspects of the transportation, shipping and management of artworks including video artwork. In addition, the role involves database and archive management through a Filemaker based platform.