Digital Innovations Librarian
Colorado College
Colorado Springs

Position Type: Exempt Staff

Annual Hours 2080

Base Months 12

Department: Library-General

Summary Description

Oversee and lead the technical development and management of digital resources
and innovations in research and education.

  
Band: 6

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and skill in the adoption and application of digital
research and learning technologies.

• Establish and maintain effective working relations with academic departments
and other campus units that use Digital CC as a repository engaged in
collaborative digital projects with academic support units that share "Center"
space, and with others on campus.

• Lead or participate in innovative digitization projects of Colorado College
and the library.

• Manage the overall operations of Digital CC; collaborate with the Metadata &
Systems Librarian to manage metadata, assuring access at various levels.

• Market and promote the digital repository to the campus, to college alumni,
and to other institutions and individuals in southern Colorado.

• Create metadata and provide expertise in cataloguing protocols for a variety
of digital files.

• Supervise library staff and students who assist with depositing born-digital
materials, digitizing paper materials, and creating metadata; provide
leadership within the library in use of innovative research technologies and
other educational technologies.

• Collaborate with the College Archivist in making historical materials in
archives and special collections available digitally.

• Manage the authorization and authentication system of Digital CC and ensure
user access.

• Provide access and preservation of digital documents for other academic and
administrative units on campus.

• Expand content and utility of Digital CC, manage the preservation of its
digital files

• Manage theses created digitally by Colorado College students; collect,
catalog and preserve student and department publications and other digital
objects (video, audio, data sets, etc.) related to campus and athletic events;
collect and preserve digital material of historical and scholarly interest to
CC faculty, students and alumni, and to the wider community.

• Provide preservation and access to noted and award winning radio broadcasts
of KRCC.

• Participate in the Alliance 'Best Practices' interest group concerning
digital repositories.

• As a member of the professional staff of the library, participate in shared
services such as research assistance and instruction, as well as maintain
liaison responsibilities to one or more academic departments.

  
Additional Responsibilities:

o Support and contribute to the goal of achieving greater diversity at
Colorado College and work effectively with the many constituencies in a
college environment.

o Promote a culture of safety and environmental protection by working in a
safe manner; immediately reporting unsafe situations and accidents; following
college procedures; and participating in appropriate safety training.

o Act in a socially responsible manner and model environmental sustainability
by exercising financial prudence, use college resources wisely, and support
ecological initiatives and innovation.

o Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

  
Required Qualifications:

Master of Library and Information Science degree or equivalent plus a minimum
of two years of experience in digital content management or extensive post-
secondary coursework related to digital archives; basic knowledge of
Institutional Repository systems and best practices; basic knowledge of and
skills in public relations and promotion; experience using Dublin Core, MODS,
and similar cataloguing protocols; knowledge of the needs and services of
records management for an academic institution

  
Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Islandora, Hydra, or a similar institutional repository
software; experience with Fedora 4 and RDF Linked Data; working knowledge of
BIBFRAME and Schema.org Linked Data Vocabularies; experience with or knowledge
of the Alliance Digital Repository' experience managing an institutional
repository and supervision of staff; familiarity with a small, residential
undergraduate liberal arts institution.

  
Posting Date: 09/25/2015

Closing Date: 10/25/2015

Open Until Filled No



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