San Francisco - California Institute of Integral Studies - Digital Initiatives Librarian

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Salary

Wages are commensurate with skills and experience and include a competitive benefits package.

Close Date

Until filled

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the University Librarian, the Digital Initiatives Librarian is responsible for managing and leading the development of the CIIS institutional repository, archives, and digital collections.  General responsibilities include planning for and administering to Digital Commons, managing access to archival content, creating metadata, developing and conducting scholarly communications initiatives, and assessing the effectiveness of initiatives and services. This position will provide leadership in the areas of scholarly publishing, copyright, fair use, and open access as well as the development of digital initiatives by providing a full range of collection management, metadata, and preservation and digitization services.  This position will contribute to and support the digital and online presence of the library through the investigation, implementation, and enhancement of tools that assist with research, creativity, scholarship, and engagement with the diverse communities at CIIS. 

Requirements:

Demonstrated commitment to access, equity, diversity, and inclusion through:

• Continuous engagement in intersectional self-reflection and cultural humility, insomuch as inclusive and mindful professional practices pervade, and equity is foregrounded in professional work.
• Mitigation of biases inherent in metadata, communications, policies, and identification of opportunities to address historical and current inequities in resources and services.
• Examination of the ways that authority, academic and otherwise, is constructed and contextual, and facilitation of practices that allow for diverse ways of learning and knowing in the conduct of academic research.

Required Qualifications and/or Experience:

• ALA accredited Master's in Library Science degree or master's degree in Archives, or equivalent. 
• 1-3 years of professional experience working with digital collections associated with an archival repository.
• Knowledge of current metadata standards, such as Dublin Core, MODS, METS, OAI, PREMISE, Open URL, and other preservation, digitization, and data standards.
• Working knowledge of scholarly communication, intellectual property and rights management including publication ethics, models, publisher evaluation, impact measurement, author's rights, identity/profile development.
• Experience consulting with teaching faculty, administrators and/or students to recruit content for digital projects.
• Experience planning, promoting, and delivering programming, preferably in an academic setting.
• At least one year experience in an academic library.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated professionalism, in-person, over the phone, and online.  The ability to authentically engage and listen attentively is critical for success.
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively, flexibly in a busy office and across departments, successfully balancing priorities and multitasking.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in an academic setting managing digital content in a bepress repository system.
• Three years or more of related experience in an academic library, archives, museum or other relevant experience.
• Proficiency in metadata principles and practices such as those found in Dublin Core and other emerging metadata schemes for digital project.
• Experience with coding in web contexts, such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSLT.
• Supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of new scholarly publishing models.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Digital Commons Institutional Repository 

• Leads the implementation, management, and assessment of discovery and repository tools for digital collections, including: CIIS online journals, conference proceedings, electronic theses and dissertations, digitized content, born-digital documents, and other similar content. 
• Leads digitization production and collaborates with colleagues to set priorities. 
• Coordinates development of metadata and linked data to support the discovery and management of digital content. 
• Documents policies, processes, and procedures for each varying project or project type. 
• Serves as a resource for students and faculty with respect to data stewardship. 
• Evaluates feasibility of proposed projects and initiatives within the local environment; ensures that work plans with milestones and assessment plans are developed as part of any new initiatives. 
• Archives

Administer and manage access to the physical CIIS historical archives and special manuscripts. 

• Organize and describe historical archives and archival digital assets. 
• Collaborate with Office of Strategic Communications and Relations and the Office of Information Technology to manage digital assets. 
• Respond to requests for archival content. 
• Scholarly Communication 

Keeps abreast of developments in scholarly communication, open access, and related initiatives and communicates key information to library and university stakeholders and plans and leads projects to update our praxis. 

Advises on library policy issues raised by digital resources such as copyright policy, intellectual freedom issues, fair use, and related matters. 

Works with CIIS scholars to support publishing and disseminating their works to the scholarly community and in preserving the content in the institutional repository. 

Advising on publication ethics, models, publisher evaluation, impact measurement, author's rights, identity/profile development. 

Outreach Services 

• Actively cultivates communication with stakeholders and content providers. 
• Collaborates with liaison librarians. 
• Conducts and contributes to university-wide programming including presentations, conferences, exhibits, and publications. 
• Serve as the primary contact with institutional repository vendor, be press. 
• Acts as liaison to university and community partners as well as vendors when appropriate. 

 

Other Responsibilities 

• Recruits, trains, and supervises technical staff (budget permitting) and student assistants.  
• Participates in Library, Office of Research and Academic Support, and University planning. 
• Develops and documents processes and procedures; periodically reviews and revises processes and procedures as needed. 
• Participates in staff meetings, planning and problem-solving meetings, and special projects, in general work as a member of the library team.
• As needed, assist patrons at Circulation Desk or with locating materials and in related matters when onsite, and as backup for informational services via chat.
• Other tasks may be assigned, and responsibilities may shift, in response to Library needs and changes in the University (in specific) and higher education (in general). 

Professional Development

• Pursues and maintains current knowledge of advances and concepts in applicable library, archives, digital scholarship, and scholarly communications fields, and remains aware of the impact of developments in information technologies on libraries, archives and scholarly publishing. 
• Applies knowledge to continuously improving and advancing digital archives and digital project skills, and seeks out trainings and courses on product changes, technical advancements, and new concepts as needed.
• Advises Library colleagues and the library leadership on developments in libraries and make recommendations for actionable items when appropriate.
• Engage in leadership opportunities and committees and other service work within Library, University, and external professional groups.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

Occasional work performed alone.  Continuous virtual presence for collaboration with others, and constant work around and with other people.

PHYSICAL ABILITIES

This position requires attention to detail, good memory, ability to work under deadline pressure, sitting and standing for long periods of time, oral and written communication, keyboarding for significant portions of the workday, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, reaching, patience, and tact to perform the essential functions.