Digital Scholarship Librarian
Boston College
Chestnut Hill

Boston College Libraries seeks candidates for the position of Digital
Scholarship Librarian. The ideal candidates will have the skills necessary to
advance digital scholarship initiatives at Boston College by providing
consultation, technical support, and project management for faculty,
librarians, staff, and students engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects.
Under the direction of the Head of Outreach and Digital Research, and in
conjunction with subject librarians, systems and digital library staff,
scholarly communications and repository librarians, and others, s/he works
directly with clients (faculty, students, staff) in identifying and deploying
appropriate tools and technologies to meet research or publication needs. The
Digital Scholarship Librarian will assist clients with projects from start to
completion, and will aid in promoting digital scholarship to the campus
community. In addition to direct support at the project level, s/he will
deliver training, group instruction, and workshops on Digital Scholarship
topics with an emphasis on data visualization, text mining and encoding,
mapping, and data analysis, and will maintain project documentation for a
growing corpus of digital scholarly production. This role requires a creative
and dynamic individual with exceptional technology and communication skills,
and an understanding of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research
methodology. The ability to listen, articulate problems, and find effective
technology solutions across a variety of disciplines, while working with a
range of clients from novice scholars to senior faculty, is
essential.Successful candidates will have the opportunity
to help BC Libraries create the Digital Scholarship program in conjunction
with a newly-created department and with the support of a new AUL position for
digital initiatives and services.

  
REQUIREMENTS

Appointment as Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian dependent upon
qualifications and requires a minimum 3 years relevant professional
experience.

  
MLS from an ALA accredited program with a strong technology component.

1-2 years of relevant experience in developing and supporting digital content
in an academic environment required.

Practical knowledge of and experience with a range of tools for the analysis
and display of information, such as online exhibit tools, social media,
scanning / OCR, data visualization, geospatial analysis, encoding and text
mining, programming and scripting languages, format conversion and editing
protocols and tools, graphic design, relational databases, metadata schema,
and open web standards.

Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively across scholarly and
technology domains

  
Submit resume and cover using the BC jobs
website:www.bc.edu/jobs



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