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Sul Ross State University
Position Description
Official Title: Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian
Salary Group: 5 ($43,846)
General Statement
Sul Ross State University seeks an innovative and enthusiastic individual for the position of Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian/Archivist. This Librarian will be joining a highly collaborative and energetic Library/Archives team.
The Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian will help shape future directions for digital asset management and preservation systems, and will develop and implement strategies, best practices, standards, and technologies that support discovery, access, management, and preservation of the Library/Archives digital collections. Working in conjunction with Archives staff, Technical Services staff and Librarians, the Digital Collections Librarian has primary responsibility for building and maintaining a comprehensive digital Library program, developing policy, framework, and workflow to provide descriptive metadata for physical and digital archival resources including, but not limited to, rare books, photograph and manuscript collections, and digital objects.
Duties and Responsibilities
- With the Senior Archivist, work to identify and prioritize projects to ensure that digital archival collections and University records are well described, archived and preserved
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee workflow for digitizing and cataloging Archives collections.
- Supports discovery of and access to the Library and Archives digital content through metadata creation, analysis, enrichment, and maintenance
- Managing and uploading documents to ContentDM, and other Library systems while ensuring full and accurate metadata for those objects.
- Ensure access to objects in ContentDM are available via the Library’s discovery system, Sirsi.
- Publish digital collections or exhibits to the web via ContentDM.
- Create policies and procedures to ensure tasks are completed correctly and efficiently in all areas of responsibility.
- Follows all local and national cataloging and metadata standards and keeps current with all updates and revisions to those standards
- Identify vendors for outsourced digitization, prepare shipments for pickup/delivery, and establish criteria for digitization, metadata, and project parameters.
- Participate in the information literacy instruction program under the direction of the Education and Outreach Librarian
- Participate in Library reference desk coverage, including nights and weekends
- If a U.S. Citizen, participate in passport acceptance agency coverage
- Perform other reasonable duties as required
Minimum Qualifications & Requirements
Knowledge/Skills/Ability
- Knowledge of current digitization and metadata standards and best practices
- Strong knowledge of personal computing and of the internet, Microsoft Office, Windows, etc.
- Demonstrated communication skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, in teams that encompass a range of roles and knowledge
Supervision
- Received: Reports to the Dean of the Library and Research Technologies
- Given: Supervises Digital Imaging Technician, may supervise student workers
Education
- Required: Master’s degree from an ALA accredited Library or Information Science program
- Preferred: Coursework with an emphasis on digitization or Archives
Experience
- Required: Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with Library/Archives staff and the university community; experience working with digital collections or Archives.
- Preferred: Professional experience in an academic Library or Archives; experience in managing digital collections projects; knowledge of strategies and best practices for digital object creation, curation, delivery, and preservation; experience working with digital asset management, digital repository, and/or digital Library/Archives systems.
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