Subject: University of RI: Assistant Professor, Digital Initiatives
Librarian (position re-posted)
From: Andree Rathemacher <andree_at_uri.edu>
Date: 9/10/2011 4:42 AM
https://jobs.uri.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=141473
Posting Details
Posting Number:
6000551
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 January 1, 2012.
Provide leadership in planning and coordination in the selection,
archiving, access, curation and preservation of, and ongoing access to,
digitized and born-digital materials collected by the library, including
datasets.
Provide leadership and vision in planning and implementing future
digital library development.
Provide technical expertise and public outreadh/training to the
University community for all library digital initiatives, including
DigitalCommons_at_URI.
Identify grant opportunities and work collaboratively to create
proposals in support of digital collections.
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 Department
staff, Information Technology Services (ITS) staff, and other members of
the Unviersity 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.
Actively seek out new user communities and content for the digital
repository and other URI digital storage and retrieval systems.
Work in a collabroative, service-oriented, rapidly changing environment
to accomplish mutual goals.
Provide ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of library
digital services through data gathering and analysis.
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, information retrieval and scholarly
communication; articulate to the campus community.
Work as a member of the Technical Services Department and report to the
Dean.
Required Qualifications:
Required:
1) Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited program;
2) A minimum of two years professional experience in digital technology
services;
3) 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 storing,
organizing and presenting digital information including datasets;
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) Demonstrated familiarity with current issues and trends in scholarly
communication and the role of institutional repositories in the system
of scholarly communication.
11) Demonstrated ability to write grants and project RFPs;
12) Ability to communicate effectively orally and writing, as well as
excellent organizational skills;
13) Demonstrated ability to handle complex analytical and detailed work;
14) Ability to effectively interact with audiences of diverse
technological backgrounds;
15) Ability to work independently and effectively across organization
lines and in collaboration with a variety of individuals and groups;
16) Ability to learn and teach new technologies quickly;
17) ability to fulfill University requirements for retention, tenure and
promotion.
Position Number:
108158
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred:
1) Degree in computer science strongly preferred.
2) Experience with Innovative Interfaces integrated library system and
Millennium platform.
Environmental Conditions:
Posting Date:
09-09-2011
Closing Date:
(This date includes grace period if applicable.)
11-21-2011
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 January 1, 2012.
--
Andrée Rathemacher
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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