Manager, Digital Library Services
Florida Virtual Campus
Gainesville,Florida

 The Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) is a statewide academic
support organization. As a joint service of the Florida College System and the
State University System, FLVC supports the distance learning, degree
completion, and research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of
Florida's public colleges and universities. FLVC has office locations in
Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Tampa. FLVC contracts with the University of
Florida to provide its employees eligibility to participate in the benefit
programs offered by both the University of Florida and the State of Florida.
For more information on FLVC, visit https://www.flvc.org.

  
SUMMARY: This position reports to the Director of Library Services of the
Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC). This position leads the Digital Services
workgroup and is located at the Gainesville office. The primary
responsibilities for this position include managing the Digital Services
workgroup, which helps the libraries of the public university and college
systems of Florida create, manage, maintain and preserve digital information
resources.

  
The Digital Services workgroup:

•provides applications to support digital special collections and archives,
electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), archival finding aids (EADs),
electronic journals, and/or other born-digital and retrospectively digitized
materials;

•runs the Florida Digital Archive, a long-term preservation repository for
digital materials;

•provides training, documentation, and technical support for these
applications, and works with CSUL MCLS committees as appropriate to ensure the
needs of the libraries are met;

• manages statewide resources, including Florida on Florida.

  
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Provides direction and oversight for the staff of the Digital Services
workgroup. Works in conjunction with the Director of Library Services to plan,
develop and direct the work of this group. Ensure that staff has the training
and resources they need to provide current and prospective services to the
libraries in the areas of digital content management and digital preservation.
Set strategic directions and prioritize work among many competing demands.
Help staff develop goals and objectives, and monitor their completion. (25%)

  
2. Provides leadership and coordination for planning, implementing, and
training for the adoption and integration of new digital technologies and
standards. (20%)

  
3. Provide project management for large and medium-scale development and
implementation projects. Ensure project-wide communication and coordination.
(15%)

  
4. Plans, develops, recommends and implements effective technological
responses; conducts technology research and identifies solutions to existing
technical issues; analyses data, processes and procedures relevant to library
customer service and operations to ensure the delivery of high-quality,
customer focused digital services; assists in ensuring the Library's digital
services appropriately meet the needs of the community. (15%)

  
5. Keep abreast of regional and national trends and initiatives related to
technology for digital library services to students and faculty. Evaluate new
technologies and applications for possible use by libraries, and evaluate the
feasibility of providing new services requested by the libraries. Identifies
innovative and effective approaches and solutions to system and service needs.
(10%)

  
6. Seeks mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations with appropriate
partners in the digital library domain. Engages in national and consortia
efforts in the digital library domain. Contributes to developments in the
field of digital librarianship through active professional engagement,
research, presentation, and publishing in appropriate venues. (5%)

  
7. Performs work in support of business processes and projects. Performs time-
sensitive tasks and meets established deadlines; maintains effective
communications with appropriate FLVC staff; maintains effective working
relationships to ensure the success of the business processes and projects.
Utilization of troubleshooting and diagnostic skills. Oversees/leads project
teams as required. (5%)

  
8. Other duties as assigned. (5%)

  
SUPERVISION: This position works under minimal supervision and has
considerable discretion in how to meet responsibilities and deliver outcomes.
The incumbent is expected to be proactive in initiating consultations with the
immediate supervisor when needed. This position will supervise employees.

  
NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE: This position is required to work during FLVC core
business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise
authorized by the Director of Library Services. Some evening and weekend work
may be required to maintain production schedule or to participate in scheduled
system maintenance.

  
POLICY MAKING AND/OR INTERPRETATION: Plans, develops, recommends, and
implements effective policies for digital services.

  
PROGRAM DIRECTION AND DEVELOPMENT: Provides direction and oversight for the
digital services programs.

  
COMMUNICATION: Communicate with external stakeholders (including vendors,
agencies and other entities) on behalf of the organization. May represent FLVC
at meetings and professional events as required.

  
CREATIVITY , STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP: Sets strategic directions and
prioritizes work of the digital services workgroup. Provides leadership and
coordination for planning, implementing and training in digital services.

  
Minimum requirements: Master's degree in an appropriate area of
specialization; or a bachelor's degree an appropriate area of specialization
and two years of appropriate experience.

  
Preferred Qualifications:

  
• ALA-accredited (or foreign equivalent) master's in library or information
science and/or advanced or other terminal degree;

• Minimum of five years of professional experience in digital initiatives,
digital collections, or direct experience in digital publishing;

• Experience managing the day-to-day work of technical staff in digital
services

• Demonstrated experience of digital library/archives metadata standards and
technologies

• Experience working with an institutional repository platform/software (e.g.
Fedora Commons, DSpace, Eprints, Digital Commons, Islandora);

• Significant experience of digital standards and best practices for digital
capture, scanning, metadata creation, digital preservation, and copyright
laws.

  
Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Outstanding analytical, organizational, project and time management skills

• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and complete tasks and projects
on-time and within budget by leveraging demonstrated creative and innovative
problem-solving skills;

• Knowledge of current metadata schemas and standards such as MODS, MARC,
METS, and Dublin Core including demonstrated competence with XML, and
understanding of metadata principles and practices such as those found in
AACR2, RDA, and other emerging metadata schemes;

• Demonstrated knowledge of digital initiatives and scholarly communication
issues in academic libraries including the issues surrounding collecting,
hosting and preserving born-digital material.

• Working knowledge of Linux

• Working knowledge of programming (Ruby, Solr, Java, PHP)



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