Open Jan 15, 2015 through Mar 11, 2015
Next review date: February 11th, 2015
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ensure full consideration by the committee
DESCRIPTION
The UCLA Library seeks an innovative and collaborative
information professional to serve as Digital Scholarship Librarian within the
Digital Library Program. 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 collections, developing services in
support of research, teaching and learning, and managing digital projects and
project teams, including collaborations with faculty and with partners
nationally and internationally, and with Library staff responsible for metadata
creation, data curation, collection development, and Web services development.
The Librarian also leads the Program’s outreach and social media presence, and
participates with colleagues in ongoing collaboration with campus partners such
as the Center for Digital Humanities, Institute for Digital Research and
Education, Social Sciences Computing, and the Department of Information
Studies.
Position Duties
Reporting to the Head of the Digital Library Program, the
Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) is a member of a highly motivated and
integrated team of digital project managers and developers that initiate and
collaborate on digital library and scholarship initiatives throughout the UCLA
Library, with UCLA faculty partners and partners UC-wide, and beyond. The DSL
is knowledgeable of contemporary digital library standards for the creation,
management, description and preservation of digital objects in all formats,
both simple and complex, and tracks development of standards and community
practice in emerging areas of digital library engagement, such as data
management/curation and linked data. The DSL is familiar with the use of
technology, digital analytical and processing techniques and markup standards
used by faculty instructors and researchers in the Digital Humanities, and
engages with faculty in the social sciences and sciences to foster Digital
Library integration into the scholarly enterprise as appropriate. Working with
both permanent and ad hoc, project-specific teams the DSL provides expert
advisory and management services for digitization and online publication
projects, coordinates metadata creation with the Head of Metadata Services and
content experts, and works with Digital Library developers and external vendors
to develop innovative platforms for dissemination of and interaction with
digital collections and digital environments of various types. The DSL works
with other Digital Library staff to integrate digital collections and services
into the instructional and research activities of UCLA faculty and users
worldwide.
The DSL is expected to have knowledge and/or experience in
one or more areas of emerging importance for digital libraries and digital
scholarship, such as: maps and geographical information as it relates to
digital libraries; data and data management services; non-traditional digital
library content (e.g. social media and other ephemeral materials, both digital
and digitized); the integration and interoperability of digital library
services through linked data; the integration of digitized and born-digital
materials; publication and visualization services in digital libraries.
The position responsibilities are in the following major
areas:
Project Management
- Assist faculty and other clients to plan effective, innovative and sustainable digital projects. Engage library staff experts in metadata, preservation, in projects as appropriate. Develop and document project plans and workflows to meet defined objectives. Initiate work of project implementation team. Work with Head, UCLA Digital Library Program and Head Software Development and Project Management to ensure project goals are met in a timely fashion. Train, supervise and evaluate student employees. Engage with software designers and developers, both internal employees and external contractors to develop engaging, informative and effective user interfaces. Employ effective review and evaluation of projects upon completion.
Outreach, Promotion and Instruction
- Manage the Digital Library Program web site and social media presence. Participate in social media activities to promote projects and initiatives. Coordinate the DLP blog. Solicit contributions from DLP colleagues, Library and campus partners. Write promotional, instructional and informational as appropriate to support the activities of the Program. Seek out and develop opportunities for partnerships with faculty and academic units on campus. Provide orientation and instruction to project participants and others as needed to support Digital Library and partner projects. Participate in national and international meetings, symposia and projects in support of the Library’s and the University’s research and instructional mission. Maintain knowledge of developments in digital libraries and digital scholarship including both infrastructure and standards developments.
Infrastructure, Standards and Workflow Development
- Participate with information technology and academic colleagues in the development of infrastructure and standards to support digital collections and scholarship. Develop new workflows to support innovative scholarship around a variety of digital content, including traditional library content, born-digital material, research data and other digital products of scholarship, and other digital materials utilized by faculty in their research. Develop new workflows to accommodate emerging data discovery and exchange standards, such as the Resource Description Framework and Linked Open Data.
Required Qualifications
- ALA-accredited Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science OR an advanced degree in an appropriate subject discipline with relevant special collections or archival training.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of national digital library standards for digitization and metadata creation across all standard formats (images, moving images, audio, video, text) and metadata domains (descriptive, technical, administrative).
- Knowledge of and demonstrated experience working with library XML standards such as MODS, EAD, TEI.
- Experience managing digital library or digital humanities projects in an academic setting.
- Ability to effectively lead teams with participants with a range of technical abilities.
- Ability to initiate and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and managers. Ability to work harmoniously and as a team player, thrive in a team-based environment, and skill in fostering teamwork among others.
- Ability to follow directions from supervisors (and to provide clear directions to staff and student employees).
- Experience with one or more digital library management systems (e.g. ContentDM, Islandora, Hydra).
- Ability to get to work reliably and on time and to be present in the workplace during normal working hours.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience developing user interfaces for digital library content or digital humanities projects.
- Experience with post-completion project review and evaluation.
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