Digital Collections Librarian: Assistant or Associate Librarian
$55,000–$55,000 year
On-siteOxford, Mississippi, United States
Job Summary
Lead the planning, implementation, and assessment of projects involving digitized and born-digital special collections and archival materials. Develop sustainable workflows for selection, acquisition, digitization, quality control, repository ingest, preservation, discovery, and access. Establish policies and technical specifications for born-digital materials, web archives, and long-term storage while coordinating student employees and interns. Manage metadata practices to support description, management, and reuse, creating, transforming, and migrating descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata using appropriate standards. Administer digital collections platforms including ContentDM and Archivematica, troubleshooting integrations and upgrades alongside Library Technology staff. Promote collection use through research assistance, instruction, outreach, and public programming, collaborating with faculty to integrate primary sources into teaching and supporting physical and digital exhibitions. Participate in collection development by assessing technical and preservation implications of acquisitions and working with donors and researchers to support responsible digital transfer and fundraising.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from an ALA-accredited institution (or international equivalent) completed by date of appointment
- Education or experience related to digital collections, digitization, born-digital materials, digital preservation, metadata, archives, or a closely related area
- Experience coordinating projects or workflows and working collaboratively with others
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Experience contributing to or managing digital collections, digitization, born-digital archives, digital preservation, metadata, or related projects in a library, archives, museum, cultural heritage organization, or comparable setting
- Experience developing, documenting, assessing, or improving digital project workflows, policies, procedures, or services
- Experience with digital collections, digital preservation, repository, archival management, or content-management platforms
- Knowledge of metadata, archival description, digitization, and digital preservation standards and best practices
- Knowledge of or experience with digitization technologies, equipment, and software—including high-resolution imaging, film and audiovisual capture, image processing, color management, and quality-control tools—for creating preservation-quality digital representations of varied collection formats
- Experience with born-digital materials, metadata transformation, web archiving, audiovisual preservation, digital forensics, or related technologies and workflows
- Knowledge of copyright, privacy, intellectual property, accessibility, cultural sensitivity, and ethical stewardship as they relate to digital collections
- Experience supporting instruction, research assistance, digital scholarship, exhibitions, outreach, or the use of primary sources in teaching and learning
- Experience coordinating projects and building collaborative relationships with colleagues, student employees, faculty, researchers, donors, or community partners
- Appointment as Associate Librarian requires an established record of service and scholarship as described in the requirements
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with ContentDM
- Experience with Archivematica
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