(UI/UX) DIGITAL LIBRARY INTERFACE DEVELOPER -- Revised
Lafayette College
Easton
**(UI/UX) DIGITAL LIBRARY INTERFACE DEVELOPER -- Revised**
Lafayette College seeks a talented and engaged programmer to join the
Library's Digital Scholarship Services
department. The person selected for this
position will lead design and programming efforts for all public-facing
elements of Lafayette's digital library ecosystem, including elegant UI/UX
design for repository systems and a growing number of repository-backed
digital research projects with faculty members. Typical UI developer tasks
include requirements gathering, initial design, implementation, testing and
refinement within a larger agile/extreme software development methodology. The
successful candidate should have good design sense and experience working
creatively within the more structured confines of library repository
frameworks and applications.
Our library values and supports involvement with digital library development
communities and encourages close collaboration locally and
beyond. We seek someone who will thrive
as an integral part of a dynamic team that is committed to furthering digital
research and scholarship through the use of continuous integration and
deployment, emerging approaches to CSS styling, and modern social programming
tools and techniques. We invite applications from those who share our
perspective, particularly women and people from other under-represented
groups.
Qualifications:
* Two years of relevant programming experience
* Advanced degree in library/information science, computer science or related field. Additional experience will be considered in lieu of educational requirement for particular strong candidates
* Academic library experience strongly preferred, particularly with digital libraries and digital scholarship
* Strong experience with some of the following:
* Ruby on Rails
* Twitter Bootstrap
* CSS3
* Sass or LESS
* D3
* OpenLayers
* JavaScript and web UI frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, Backbone
Desired experience with:
* Agile, eXtreme, and/or pair programming
* Formal methods of Quality Assurance and/or Test-Driven Development
* Modern issue tracking, project management, source control tools
* Digital library frameworks such as Fedora Commons, Hydra, or Islandora
* Common web technologies such as Drupal, PHP, Responsive Web Design
* Library-specific technologies such as Omeka, Neatline, Linked Open Data
If this ad describes you, please send a resume, three professional references,
and a cover letter explaining why you are passionate about digital libraries
and what you can offer our growing development team to: Neil McElroy, Dean of
Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042 or via email to:
[log in to unmask] Lafayette College is a highly selective, private
liberal arts college with degree programs in the arts, sciences, and
engineering. Lafayette received the 2014 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries
Award, which recognized, among other accomplishments, the Library's innovative
approaches to digital scholarship. Librarians at Lafayette hold faculty
status, without rank or tenure, and participate in college governance as
members of the Faculty. The Library strongly encourages and generously
supports professional development.
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