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July 6, 2021

Institutional Repository Librarian

• San Francisco State University
• San Francisco, CA

San Francisco State University’s J. Paul Leonard Library is a busy, teaching-oriented institution supporting a community of 25,000 students as well as faculty and staff. Our campus is part of the 23-campus California State University system, and we are seeking applications for an Institutional Repository Librarian who will work collaboratively with other librarians and staff across the system to operationalize the CSU-wide institutional repository, ScholarWorks. Additionally, the Institutional Repository Librarian will liaise with our campus community to promote ScholarWorks to students and faculty and provide related guidance on topics such as web accessibility and copyright.

Responsibilities include:
• Serving as the primary ScholarWorks campus project manager for San Francisco State University, to include active participation in CSU-wide decision making on metadata practices, systemwide policies, and platform design.
• Developing local workflows and best practices for collecting, ingesting, and preserving the research and creative works of our students and faculty, in partnership with staff in the Library’s Digital Scholarship Center.
• Providing guidance to the Division of Graduate Studies and academic departments on web accessibility expectations for student works, with a particular focus on theses, dissertations, and capstone projects.
• Promoting self-archiving in ScholarWorks to faculty, advocating for the retention of author rights, and serving as a resource for copyright questions.
• Troubleshooting technical issues and communicating these to Chancellor’s Office staff to help inform the development process.
• Creating public-facing user documentation and outreach materials.
• Participating collegially in the collaborative development, implementation, assessment, and improvement of library resources, services, policies, and procedures.

Qualifications
Required
• ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or equivalent.
Preferred
Several of the following competencies are derived from the NASIG Core Competencies for Scholarly Communication Librarians.
• Knowledge of and experience with publishing platforms (open source preferred)
• Knowledge of and experience with the full life cycle of publishing, including copyright, author agreements, and publisher self-archiving policies.
• Knowledge of and experience with accessibility best practices for digital documents.
• Possess a basic knowledge of relevant metadata schemata.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting and providing user platform support.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
• Strong commitment to equity and inclusion and the ability to work effectively and collegially with students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds.

Rank and Salary
Appointment is expected to be at the rank of Senior Assistant Librarian with rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Time base is up to full-time.

Application
Submit a letter of intent/interest, a current CV, and the names and contact information of three references to Elizabeth Detrich, Personnel Coordinator: edetrich@sfsu.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. The position will remain open until filled.
San Francisco State is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, covered veteran status, or any other protected status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for qualified applicants with disabilities who self-disclose by contacting the Library’s Personnel Coordinator, Liz Detrich, at edetrich@sfsu.edu.

June 9, 2021

Senior Software Developer: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization

• California Digital Library (CDL)

The Role

As a senior level applications programmer in the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization (PAD) group at the California Digital Library, this position will join a team that is responsible for the design and maintenance of a diverse portfolio of web-based applications and services (deployed in Amazon Web Services) that support the publishing, research, and learning activities of UC faculty, students, staff, and the  general public.  Working with product managers, the tech lead, other developers, and campus partners, the individual will lead technical projects to assess and implement external tools and platforms, develop new features for existing services, analyze and fix bugs that occur on production systems, and take ownership of the operations for specific components of our systems.

The technical team consists of collaborative generalists and problem solvers who work across the stack. In addition to joining the immediate PAD team, this position will also be part of a community of colleagues across all CDL program areas.

You will:

• Help expand open access to the knowledge and research created by the UC academic community, and managed by the UC Libraries and partner cultural heritage institutions throughout the state of California
• Design, build, and maintain complex systems that interface with all UC campuses, units, and labs
• As an application owner for third party software, coordinate support with vendor team and CDL product managers
• Lead development of new systems and components as assigned
• Evaluate new technologies, standards, and practices for potential impact on products, services, and operations; champion adoption as appropriate

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training and minimum of 5 years experience in software development
• Self-motivation and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Skills to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
• Experience with enterprise scale systems, such as directory services or human resources systems, in a distributed or federated environment.
• Experience working with a vendor-hosted software product, including application administration level responsibilities
• Demonstrated Relational Database Management Systems skills; able to design and modify database schema
• Demonstrated skill in providing advanced support to technical contacts and non-technical colleagues

Compensation & benefits:

• Health Care, Dental, Vision
• Vacation
• Sick Leave
• UC Retirement System, 403(b), 457(b),
• Academic work environment / 40-hour work week
• Remote work okay

Our organization

The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California. As a UC systemwide library, CDL provides services to and on behalf of the UC system in partnership with the UC campus libraries. As a globally-connected digital library, CDL occupies a unique position between the local UC campuses and the global digital library infrastructure. The primary user base for CDL services and programs includes UC faculty, students, and library staff. The CDL is a unit within the UC Office of the President, has a staff of 70+ and is located in downtown Oakland.

The Publishing, Archives, and Digitization Group develops and maintains production services that enable robust access to the unique digital assets of the University of California and beyond. The Publishing team provides the University of California scholarly community with innovative digital publication and distribution opportunities through the development of advanced technologies and creative partnerships. The Archives team supports collaboration between libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California to provide access to a world class digital collection that serves an array of end users, from researchers and scholars to students and the general public.  The Digitization team coordinates UC’s engagement with mass and local digitization efforts, specifically with Google Books and HathiTrust.

CDL welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from individuals from underrepresented groups. CDL seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University of California, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

May 5, 2021

Publishing Services Specialist

• Virginia Tech
• Blacksburg, VA

• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate work with faculty, staff, and students in sustaining today’s evolving digital publishing service environments, ensuring the quality, integrity, and curation of digital information.
• Strong communication skills
• Proven organizational skills including the ability to multi-task, adapt to changing workflows and tools, and engage in creative problem solving
• Strong computer literacy skills including fluency with basic office tools (Microsoft Office, Adobe Pro, and Google products); willingness to learn new tools and technologies
• Experience in an academic environment

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a humanities or social science field
• Knowledge of library systems and technologies
• Knowledge of publishing trends, issues, and strategies as well as current digital publishing technologies, standards, and best practices.
• Copy editing experience; knowledge of Chicago Manual of Style
• Experience using InDesign or other design software

Employment Conditions:

• Must have background Check