All,
We are hiring! Please consider this opportunity to join the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services Department at Vassar College Libraries. We are looking for a Digital Library Developer:
Posting #1001773
The Vassar College Libraries seek a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative library professional for the position of Digital Library Developer. This position is an excellent opportunity to work within a team to develop and maintain tools, systems, and applications that enhance scholars' ability to pursue new avenues for learning and research using the Library's resources and expertise. The Digital Library Developer will help to implement systems and services that bring library resources to our faculty and student scholars in innovative ways. This position will work alongside faculty members, students, librarians, and IT colleagues across campus and within open-source communities on projects that advance research, teaching, and learning.
The Digital Library Developer will work with the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services team on various technology projects throughout the Libraries and the College. This position serves a critical role in providing support for the continual improvement of the digital repository system, Islandora. This includes working directly with objects and metadata while improving functionality. Additionally, the Digital Library Developer will introduce new and innovative tools for digital scholarship throughout the Libraries and the College.
The ideal candidate will be a technology-savvy collaborator, working within a team to sustain current development and make new projects and services come to life. A technologist aware of the trends and issues (technological and otherwise) surrounding digital scholarship, repositories, and research, and excited by the challenges they bring. A data and metadata enthusiast, understanding and enjoying the nuances of each to provide the best resources and digital scholarship possible. Someone excited by presentation-layer work (e.g., visualizations or exhibitions), but also by solving technical challenges, and an excellent communicator that enjoys collaboration and partnerships.
Nicole H. ScalessaHead of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services, Vassar College
845-437-5219
