Digital Technologies Development Librarian
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena

Caltech's Digital Library Development group is seeking a tech-savvy, energetic
and inquisitive librarian to join a team of developers, librarians and
technologists that power the Library's R&D activities in both established and
emerging areas of activity. The team supports research and instruction at one
of the world's leading academic research institutions through the development
of new repository and publication services, data management, manipulation and
visualization services, and innovative digital learning and scholarship tools
and environments. Working collaboratively the Digital Technologies Development
Librarian (DTDL) envisions, designs and implements new tools, technology
services and collaboration infrastructures to support scholarship in the data-
intensive Caltech research and teaching community. Building on the Library's
well-established repository program, digitized archival collections, and
recently established "TechLab," the DTDL will work with the Digital Library
Development team to build platforms for innovation and new services to Caltech
and the world.

  
  
**Job Duties:**  
• Provides technical and project leadership for library information discovery
and delivery systems development

• Leads the library's Web team in the development of the library's online
presence on all platforms

• Coordinates technology implementation with librarians and other content
managers and IT staff

• Works collaboratively with library staff and campus stakeholders to design
and develop the technical foundation for new library services

• Develops, implements and integrates digital tools and techniques in support
of research and instruction, and staff activities

• Identifies appropriate established and emerging technologies to meet the
needs of digital projects

• Works with IT staff to maintain and enhance existing library services and
develop supporting infrastructure

• Manages projects as appropriate, and coordinates library-wide projects as
needed

• Serves on Library and campus committees and teams

• Is expected to be active professionally as a librarian

  
**Basic Qualifications:**  
• MLS, or equivalent advanced degree

• Understanding of contemporary library information structures, standards, and
systems

• Familiarity with the provision of information services in a highly technical
environment

• Experience with piloting and prototyping technologies

• Server-side application development (e.g. PHP, Python, Ruby)

• Experience with client-side technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

• Potential for ongoing professional contribution

  
**Preferred Qualifications:**  
• Knowledge of user-centered design processes (user studies, use of analytics
for data-centered decision making)

• Familiarity with version control systems (GIT, Subversion)

• Familiarity with web analytics and search engine optimization

• Experience contributing to open source development projects

• Experience working in an academic library

• Project management experience

  
**About Caltech and Caltech Library**  
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science
and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary
faculty and students seek answers to complex questions, discover new
knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future. Founded by Caltech
faculty, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a division of Caltech and
is the leading U.S. center for the robotic exploration of the solar system.
For the fourth year in a row, Caltech was named the top university in the
world in 2014-15 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Caltech was awarded "Great College to Work For" by the Chronicle of Higher
Education in 2013.

  
Caltech's 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California. Home to the Rose
Bowl Parade, Pasadena is located in the foothills of the Angeles National
Forest, 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles.

  
The Caltech Library system comprises five libraries and Archives and Special
Collections. The Library's 42 staff are divided across four units that reflect
the Library's core areas of service to Caltech: Digital Library Development,
Access and Fulfillment Services, Archives and Special Collections, and
Research Services.

  
The Caltech Library helps enable the Institute fulfill its mission to expand
human knowledge through research integrated with education. The Library is
most effective when it mirrors how Caltech itself works--its ambition to take
on challenging and fundamental problems through creative, collaborative and
multidisciplinary inquiry.

  
In 2014 Caltech faculty adopted an Open Access policy, which grants
nonexclusive rights to the Institute to disseminate faculty papers. The
Caltech Library supports this policy through CaltechAUTHORS as well as
outreach and consultation on a range of scholarly communication issues. The
Library is also active in scholarly communication collaborative initiatives
such as SPARC, arXiv, and ORCID. The Library participates in a variety of
Library and standards bodies, including the Digital Preservation Network,
Digital Library Federation, Coalition for Networked Information, NISO, OCLC
Research, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), and the Statewide
California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC).

  
**Find this posting at: **[http://www.library.caltech.edu/about/jobs/DigitalTechnologiesDevelopmentLibrarian.html](http://www.library.caltech.edu/about/jobs/DigitalTechnologiesDevelopmentLibrarian.html)  
To apply for this position, visit [https://jobs.caltech.edu/postings/3628](htt
ps://jobs.caltech.edu/postings/3628).

  
Caltech is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any
other characteristic protected by law. Caltech is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
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