Develop and manage sustainable workflows for selection,
acquisition, digitization, quality control, repository ingest,
digital preservation, discovery, and access.
Establish policies, technical specifications, and procedures
for born-digital materials, web archives, digitization, digital
preservation, storage, migration, and long-term access.
Assess preservation risks, evaluate emerging technologies and
professional practices, and collaborate with Library Technology and
other partners on infrastructure, security, backup, integrations,
and service improvements.
Coordinate and supervise the work of student employees,
interns, and other project participants.
Metadata, Systems, Discovery, and Access
- Develop and assess metadata practices that support the
description, management, preservation, discovery, and reuse of
digital collections.
- Create, transform, remediate, and migrate descriptive,
administrative, structural, technical, and preservation metadata
using appropriate standards and tools.
- Support the administration and development of digital
collections, archival management, and digital preservation
platforms, including system configuration, testing, upgrades,
troubleshooting, and integration with other discovery
systems.
- Promote accessible, inclusive, user-centered, and culturally
responsible access while addressing copyright, privacy,
intellectual property, donor restrictions, cultural sensitivity,
and other legal and ethical considerations.
Teaching, Research, and Engagement
- Promote the discovery and use of Miami University Libraries'
digital and physical distinctive collections through research
assistance, consultations, instruction, outreach, and public
programming.
- Collaborate with faculty, students, researchers, and campus
partners to integrate primary sources and digital collections into
teaching, research, digital scholarship, and experiential
learning.
- Develop or support physical and digital exhibitions, digital
storytelling projects, workshops, guides, and other interpretive or
instructional resources.
- Build relationships with academic departments, campus
organizations, alumni, community partners, and other audiences to
expand awareness and use of the collections.
Collection Development and Program Support
- Participate in developing and maintaining special collections
and archival holdings, including identifying and prioritizing
materials for digitization, preservation, and online access.
- Assess the technical, preservation, metadata, storage, rights,
and access implications of potential acquisitions, including
born-digital and hybrid collections.
- Work with donors, researchers, alumni, and colleagues to
support collection development, responsible digital transfer,
fundraising, grants, and externally supported initiatives.
- Communicate the value and impact of digital collections to
University stakeholders; participate in departmental, Libraries,
and University initiatives; and engage in relevant professional
organizations and activities appropriate to the position.
- Perform other duties consistent with the position and the
evolving needs of Miami University Libraries.
Technology Environment
Miami University Libraries currently uses ContentDM and plans to
adopt Archivematica to support the management, preservation, and
discovery of distinctive collections.
The Digital Collections Librarian will serve as functional lead for
ContentDM and Archivematica and will collaborate with Library
Technology staff responsible for technical infrastructure,
integrations, information security, storage, and system
administration.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from
an ALA-accredited institution (or international equivalent)
completed by date of appointment. Appointment as Associate
Librarian requires an established record of service and scholarship
as described in the requirements.
- Education or experience related to digital collections,
digitization, born-digital materials, digital preservation,
metadata, archives, or a closely related area.
Consideration Will Be Given for Candidates with:
- 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.
Additional Position Information (if applicable)
Required Application Documents
Cover Letter and Resume/CV
Special Instructions (if applicable)
None
Additional Information
A criminal background check is required. All campuses are smoke-
and tobacco-free campuses.
This organization participates in E-Verify.
Remote Work
For positions that are approved for remote work: Remote work is not
a right, it is a work arrangement that can be modified or revoked
by Miami University at any time for any reason, including the
convenience of the University.
Reasonable Accommodations
Requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities related to
employment should be directed to
ADAFacultyStaff@miamioh.edu or
513-529-3560. Questions and follow-ups regarding requests should
also be directed here.
Miami University Values Statement
Miami University is a scholarly community
whose members believe that a liberal education is grounded in
qualities of character as well as of intellect. We respect the
dignity of other persons, the rights and property of others, and
the right of others to hold and express disparate beliefs. We
believe in honesty, integrity, and the importance of moral conduct.
We defend the freedom of inquiry that is the heart of learning and
combine that freedom with the exercise of judgment and the
acceptance of personal responsibility.
For more information on Miami University's mission and core values,
please visit the
Mission and Core Values
webpage.
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Statement
Miami University, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer,
encourages applications from protected veterans and individuals
with disabilities. Miami University prohibits harassment,
discrimination and retaliation on the basis of age (40 years or
older), color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic
information, military status, national origin (ancestry),
pregnancy, race, religion, sex/gender, status as a parent or foster
parent, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status in its
application and admission processes, educational programs and
activities, facilities, programs or employment practices. Requests
for reasonable accommodations for disabilities related to
employment should be directed to
ADAFacultyStaff@miamioh.edu or
513-529-3560.
Clery Act
As part of the University's commitment to maintaining a healthy and
safe living, learning, and working environment, we encourage you to
read Miami University's Annual Security & Fire Safety Report
at:
http://www.MiamiOH.edu/campus-safety/annual-report/index.html,
which contains information about campus safety, crime statistics,
and our drug and alcohol abuse and prevention program designed to
prevent the unlawful possession, use, and distribution of drugs and
alcohol on campus and at university events and activities. This
report also contains information on programs and policies designed
to prevent and address sexual violence, domestic violence, dating
violence, and stalking. Each year, email notification of this
website is made to all faculty, staff, and enrolled students.
Written notification is also provided to prospective students and
employees. Hard copies of the Annual Security & Fire Safety
Report may be obtained from the Miami University Police Department
at 513-529-2223.
Labor Law Posters for Applicants
Please visit our
Labor Law Posters
webpage to access all relevant and applicable labor law
information.
To apply, visit https://miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamioh-staff/job/King-Library/Digital-Collections-Librarian--Assistant-or-Associate-Librarian_JR104697?workerSubType=c79d26910af910051f92586cab6b0000&workerSubType=c79d26910af910051f92586cab6b0001&workerSubType=c79d26910af910051f925a3a24920000&workerSubType=c79d26910af910051f925906a8230000.
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