Digital Collections Specialist
$61,800–$77,300 year
HybridWestchester, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Conduct day-to-day operations and project management for library digital collections, including Digital Commons and Scholars @ LMU. Implement preservation strategies and workflows to ensure asset integrity while overseeing project documentation, quality control, and digitization of audiovisual media and archival materials. Supervise student employees through hiring, training, and performance feedback. Manage ingesting digital objects and metadata into content management systems, coordinate with vendors and the Systems team for platform issues, and collect analytics for library reporting. Liaise with university departments to support faculty, staff, and student users of these platforms.
Required Qualifications
- Typically a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of three years of full-time academic library experience
- Demonstrated experience in digital collections, institutional repositories, or digital preservation
- Demonstrated knowledge of digital preservation standards, metadata schemas, and digital asset management best practices
- Demonstrated competence with institutional repository platforms, such as Digital Commons, and/or digital asset management systems, such as Quartex or other digital collection platforms
- Familiarity with metadata standards and preservation file format specifications
- Familiarity with proper care and handling of special collections
- Knowledge of copyright, licensing, sharing, and use standards as they relate to institutional repositories
- Demonstrated experience hiring and supervising student employees
- Highly developed organizational skills
- Strong project management skills and experience developing workflows and writing procedures
- Exemplary written, oral, and presentation communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including customer service experience
Desired Qualifications
- A Master's degree in library and information science or related field
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