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Assistant Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian  

Faculty  

AAUP - American Assoc of Univ Professors  

Calendar Year
Full-time
Tenure-track
Permanent  

Kingston Library  

This is a calendar year, tenure-track position with anticipated appointment date of January 1, 2012. 

Provide leadership in planning and coordination in the selection, archiving, access, curation and preservation of, and ongoing access to, digitized and born-digital materials collected by the library, including datasets. 

Provide leadership and vision in planning and implementing future digital library development. 

Provide technical expertise and public outreadh/training to the University community for all library digital initiatives, including DigitalCommons@URI. 

Identify grant opportunities and work collaboratively to create proposals in support of digital collections. 

Provide leadership in the management of the University of Rhode Island's digital repository (currently DigitalCommons@URI) and technical expertise to continue development and enhancements. 

Coordinate with library subject liaisons, Technical Services Department staff, Information Technology Services (ITS) staff, and other members of the Unviersity community to enhance access to the University's scholarly communications and publications within the digital repository. 

Formulate policies and procedures for the production, management, and preservation of digital content and metadata, technical workflow, quality control and intellectual property issues. 

Actively seek out new user communities and content for the digital repository and other URI digital storage and retrieval systems. 

Work in a collabroative, service-oriented, rapidly changing environment to accomplish mutual goals. 

Provide ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of library digital services through data gathering and analysis. 

Work with IT staff and users of campus-wide applications to integrate library digital collections into these services, e.g. Sakai. 

Anticipate future trends in an evolving digital environment and maintain current awareness of national and international developments affecting knowledge management, metadata, information retrieval and scholarly communication; articulate to the campus community. 

Work as a member of the Technical Services Department and report to the Dean.  

Required: 

1) Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited program; 

2) A minimum of two years professional experience in digital technology services; 

3) Technical proficiency with programs and platforms such as Unix/Linux, XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, Oracle/SQL, PERL or PHP, and experience with digital repository platforms; 

4) Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and implement effective digital projects; 

5) Experience with the concepts and applications used in storing, organizing and presenting digital information including datasets; 

6) Demonstrated professional facility with a variety of metadata and associated functional standards, including Dublin Core, EAD, MARC, TEL, etc. and appropriate thesauri; 

7) Awareness of institutional repository issues and software requirements; 

8) Knowledge of intellectual property compliance issues and applicable copyright law; 

9) Knowledge and understanding of best practices, standards, issues and trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library; 

10) Demonstrated familiarity with current issues and trends in scholarly communication and the role of institutional repositories in the system of scholarly communication. 

11) Demonstrated ability to write grants and project RFPs; 

12) Ability to communicate effectively orally and writing, as well as excellent organizational skills; 

13) Demonstrated ability to handle complex analytical and detailed work;

14) Ability to effectively interact with audiences of diverse technological backgrounds; 

15) Ability to work independently and effectively across organization lines and in collaboration with a variety of individuals and groups; 

16) Ability to learn and teach new technologies quickly; 

17) ability to fulfill University requirements for retention, tenure and promotion.  

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Preferred: 

1) Degree in computer science strongly preferred. 

2) Experience with Innovative Interfaces integrated library system and Millennium platform.  

 

09-09-2011  

11-21-2011

Please attach a cover letter and curriculum vitae in PDF format. 

This is a calendar year, tenure-track position with anticipated appointment date of January 1, 2012.