Subject: Position Announcement @ University of Rhode Island --
Assistant Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian
From: Andree Rathemacher <andree_at_uri.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 16:07:15 -0400
Please excuse cross-posting
Posting Number: 6000458
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Digital Initiatives Librarian
Position Type: Faculty
Union: AAUP - American Assoc of Univ Professors
Status:
Calendar Year
Full-time
Tenure-track
Permanent
Department: Kingston Library
Duties and Responsibilities:
This is a calendar year, tenure-track position with anticipated
appointment date of September 1, 2011.
Provide leadership in the management of the University of Rhode Island's
digital repository (currently DigitalCommons_at_URI) and technical
expertise to continue development and enhancements.
Coordinate with library subject liaisons, Technical Services Dept staff,
Information Technology Svs (ITS) staff, and other members of the
University community to enhance access to the University's scholarly
communications and publications within the digital repository.
Formulate policies and procedures for the production, management, and
preservation of digital content and metadata, technical workflow,
quality control, and intellectual property issues.
Provide training and outreach to the campus community about digital
initiatives and DigitalCommons_at_URI.
Actively seek out new user communities and content for the digital
repository.
Provide leadership and vision in planning and implementing future
digital library development.
Provide ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of library
digital services through data gathering and analysis.
Plan and coordinate the preservation of and ongoing access to digitized
and born-digital materials curated by the library.
Work with IT staff and users of campus-wide applications to integrate
library digital collections into these services, e.g., Sakai.
Anticipate future trends in an evolving digital environment and maintain
current awareness of national and international developments affecting
knowledge management, metadata, and information retrieval; articulate to
campus community.
Identify grant opportunities and work collaboratively to create
proposals in support of digital collections.
Work as a member of the Technical Services Department and reports to the
Dean.
Required Qualifications:
1) Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited program;
2) A minimum of two years' experience in an academic library setting;
3) The following are also required: Technical proficiency with programs
and platforms such as Unix / Linux, XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, Oracle / SQL,
PERL or PHP, and experience with digital repository platforms.
4) Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and implement effective
digital projects;
5) Experience with the concepts and applications used in organizing and
presenting digital information;
6) Demonstrated professional facility with a variety of metadata and
associated functional standards, including Dublin Core, EAD, MARC, TEL,
etc. and appropriate thesauri.
7) Awareness of institutional repository issues and software requirements.
8) Knowledge of intellectual property compliance issues and applicable
copyright law.
9) Knowledge and understanding of best practices, standards, issues and
trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library.
10) Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, as well as
excellent organizational skills.
11) Demonstrated ability to handle complex analytical and detailed work.
12) Ability to effectively interact with audiences of diverse
technological backgrounds.
13) Ability to work independently and effectively across organization
lines and in collaboration with a variety of individuals and groups.
14) Ability to learn and teach new technologies quickly.
15) Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, service oriented,
rapidly changing environment to accomplish mutual goals.
16) Demonstrated ability to write grants and project RFPs.
17) Ability to fulfill University requirements for retention, tenure and
promotion.
Position Number: 108158
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred:
Degree in computer science strongly preferred.
Experience with Innovative Interfaces integrated library system and
Millennium platform.
Posting Date: 05-17-2011
Closing Date: 06-15-2011 (This date includes grace period if applicable.)
Special Instructions to Applicants: Please attach a cover letter and
curriculum vitae in PDF format.
This is a calendar year, tenure-track position with anticipated
appointment date of September 1, 2011.
Campus Location: Kingston
https://jobs.uri.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=140526
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Andrée Rathemacher
Associate Professor / Head, Acquisitions
University Libraries, University of Rhode Island
15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
(401) 874-5096 / fax: (401) 874-4588
andree_at_uri.edu
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