Head, Digital Initiatives
University of Waterloo
Waterloo

The University of Waterloo Library seeks a creative, dynamic and public
service oriented professional librarian to fill aleadership
position as Head, Digital Initiatives. The position offers an exciting
opportunity for a visionary leader to buildon past and
present achievements and to move the digital agenda forward for the University
of Waterloo Library.

  
The Library has a long history of innovation around technology, from wireless
technologies, digital repositories for ETDs,to more
recently RFID deployment and discovery systems. We value entrepreneurism and
creativity.The Library is in the process of migration of
its web presence to a campus enterprise Drupal instance, and the
successfulincumbent will be responsible for the technical
components of the service, managing technical teams as well
asdistributed content owners and editors across the
University of Waterloo Library, and working closely with
theUniversity's Web Content Management System (WCMS) Team.

  
Additionally, the incumbent is responsible for the collaborative development
of strategies, planning, implementation,and support of
projects to advance the creation, integration and use of web based services,
technical infrastructure,digital services, digital
repository, digital preservation and service integration for the Library.

  
Technical support and administration of key enterprise library applications
are also managed within the department, forthe uWaterloo
community as well as the other Tri-University Group (TUG) member libraries at
University of Guelph andWilfrid Laurier University. As the
department serves broadly across the Library, the incumbent will work closely
with allLibrary departments on projects at some point or
another. Key partners include the Library's Web Operations
Group,Library Technology & Facilities Services, TUG Primo
Committee, web content creators, and the campus web
contentmanagement leadership across campus, as well as
technology leadership at TUG member libraries, Ontario Council
ofUniversity Libraries (OCUL) and elsewhere.

  
The University of Waterloo Library is a member of the Canadian Association of
Research Libraries (CARL), the Associationof Research
Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the
Ontario Council of UniversityLibraries (OCUL). The Library
is a member of the Tri-University Group (TUG), along with member libraries at
theUniversity of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University. The
TUG Libraries serve a combined student population of
over76,000, combined holdings exceeding 5 million, and
combined budgets exceeding $45 million. TUG manages
sharedtechnology and a remote storage facility, and enables
collaborative projects across the three library systems.
Thesuccessful candidate will carry out the responsibilities
associated with this position in the Dana Porter Library, located
onWaterloo's campus.



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