To be responsible for the creation of metadata, associated authority and
quality control, and maintenance of digital materials.

  
**Minimum Qualifications**  
Master's degree in Library Science (from an ALA accredited program) or related
field; experience creating, capturing, and processing images/textual
materials; knowledge of metadata standards, such as Dublin Core, METS, and
TEI; excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills; Working
knowledge of Dspace and/or Digital Commons or similar platform

  
**Preferred Qualifications**  
Experience working in an academic library; minimum one year experience writing
metadata; knowledge of digital libraries, institutional repositories, and
digital preservation; Experience using Adobe Acrobat Pro and Photoshop;
Knowledge of conventional cataloging (MARC, AACR2, LCSH, and RDA) and
principles of authority control.

  
To preserve the safety and security of the campus community and to maintain
the integrity of university operations, it is the policy of Wright State
University before making an employment offer at the final stage to verify
whether a job applicant has a criminal record. Additionally, an administrative
review shall be conducted whenever the university learns that an employee is
charged with or convicted of a crime (except for minor vehicle violations). A
conviction is not an automatic bar to employment.

  
**Essential Functions and percent of time:**  
Metadata Creation and Maintenance - 65% Responsible for the creation,
according to accepted national and local standards, and ongoing maintenance of
descriptive and technical metadata for digital collections produced by Digital
Services

  
Metadata Oversight - 10%

Participates in the development, evaluation, and implementation of metadata
policies, standards, goals, procedures, and workflows in cooperation with
necessary stakeholders, such as individual faculty members, academic
departments, subject librarians, and Special Collections and Archives staff

  
Preparation of Digitized Materials for online access - 15%

  * Crop, edit, and manipulate images according to specification required for project using image editing software
  * Make text based documents machine readable with optical character recognition software
  * Convert text to PDF and make accessible
  * Quality check digitized materials
  
Digitization of Materials - 5%

  * Digitize and store materials from WSU Libraries, WSU faculty and staff, and community at-large according to established standards, for inclusion in Campus Online Repository (CORE), CORE Scholar, or other resource tool, exhibition, and patron orders
  * Maintain security of materials while being scanned
  * Practice archival handling procedures for all materials
  
Other Related Duties - 5%

Participate in professional development and continuing education activities;
serve on library and University Committees as required.



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