Digital Services Coordinator
Metropolitan New York Library Council
New York City

The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is seeking qualified
applicants for the position of Digital Services Coordinator.

  
The Digital Services Coordinator will support Digital Culture of Metropolitan
New York (DCMNY), an online collection hosting service for members of the
Metropolitan New York Library Council. DCMNY is currently powered by
Islandora; the Digital Services Coordinator will need to be comfortable with
Linux, Fedora Commons, Drupal, and custom PHP modifications. The ideal
candidate will be confident with this technology stack and is up to date on
other frameworks and repository solutions (e.g. Apache SOLR, Ruby/Rails,
Blacklight, Hydra). She or he will make recommendations and lead a migration
to a different platform should this be advantageous.

  
METRO's staff of 15+ people hosts classes and events for our membership. The
Digital Services Coordinator will also collaborate with the METRO staff to
maintain the technical infrastructure for the office and community space. This
support includes but is not limited to: wireless network, VOIP network,
hardware/software support, technology purchasing, and Google apps.

  
Finally, the Digital Services Coordinator will have an outward-facing role at
METRO; she or he will engage with the New York/Westchester technology
community beyond the library world. Civic hacking, big data, data literacy,
physical computing, the IoT, and gigabit fiber networks are topics that should
get you excited and light you up with new ideas. This outward-facing role will
lead to new initiatives, new opportunities, and new perspectives at METRO. The
Digital Services Coordinator will be central to their design and
implementation.

  
The ideal candidate is a curious, creative, and communicative technologist who
will be responsible for supporting and developing a wide variety of services
at METRO. Vision and leadership come from all levels of this lean
organization, so the ideal Digital Services Coordinator will combine humility
and grace with expertise and authority. She or he identifies as a capable
programmer and believes in beautiful, concise, and well-commented code.

  
The Digital Services Coordinator will have some opportunity to work remotely,
but will need to be on site regularly in our space on 11th street in Manhattan
as well. METRO is a fun and collaborative workplace full of energy and
enthusiasm.

  
METRO offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Salary is
commensurate with experience.

METRO is an equal opportunity employer. To apply, please send a .pdf copy of
your resume and cover letter along with any other material you would like
considered part of your application to [log in to unmask]

  
About METRO

  
METRO is the largest of nine library councils in the state of New York, with
METRO serving all of New York City and Westchester County. These councils were
founded in the 1960s to facilitate the sharing of resources between different
types of libraries and archives: academic, public, art, museum, corporate, and
more. In the past, programmatic efforts have been primarily focused on the
discovery and delivery of physical materials. Today, METRO is increasingly
oriented toward the digital, in work ranging from collaborative digitization
projects that engage our diverse membership to the administration of the
Empire State Digital Network, a service hub of the Digital Public Library of
America. In addition, METRO offers a wide variety of classes, lectures,
events, and other professional development activities.

  
METRO aims to serve as a laboratory and experimental space for our growing
membership, combining new developments in librarianship with emerging
technologies drawn from parallel fields. The Digital Services Coordinator will
help drive this innovation.



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