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April 1, 2014

Library Faculty, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Tenure-Track

  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Murfreesboro, TN

Twelve-month, tenure-track, Assistant/Associate Professor rank (401180). Available as soon as position is filled.The James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) seeks candidates for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian. This position will be responsible for advancing and supporting library programs for development of an Institutional Repository, digital collections and services in support of digital scholarship, including a graduate and faculty digital scholarship laboratory. Provides leadership and engages with campus academic departments, centers and individual faculty directly and through Library liaisons to encourage inclusion of scholarly materials in the Institutional repository, identify opportunities to support faculty and student digital scholarship and build partnerships for the creation of digital collections. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will work in a highly collaborative environment with Walker Library staff and faculty and staff of archival centers in other administrative units. This position reports to the Dean of Walker Library.
Responsibilities: 
Develop strategic plans, budgets and manage ongoing projects in concert with members of the library and archive partnership. 
Knowledgeable on issues of copyright and rights management in relationship to digital publication. 
Establishes and documents campus wide technical and metadata standards for digitization and digital collections. 
Coordinates the development of a new institutional repository with the overall digital collections projects 
Within the library, effectively work with a cross department project team in collaboration with the Heads of User Services, Collection Development and Management and Library Technology to plan, implement and manage digital projects, including the underlying technology infrastructure. 
Leads efforts to obtain and manage grants and outside funding in support of digital initiatives. 
Coordinates the collaboration between Walker Library and campus archival centers in the development and implementation of digital scholarship project. 
Participate in professional service and research activities in support of promotion and tenure requirements. 
Salary and Benefits: Competitive salary. Generous benefits include full-paid State or TIAA/CREF retirement, 24 days annual leave, 12 days sick leave, and 13 paid holidays.
Environment: Middle Tennessee State University is a Carnegie Doctoral Research Intensive University of 24,000 students. MTSU is a dynamic institution with a commitment to diversity, valuing excellent teaching and fostering initiatives in research and public service. The university library lies at the heart of the MTSU educational experience. Murfreesboro, located 30 miles southeast of Nashville, offers a rich cultural and recreational life and easy access to a variety of attractions within the state and region.
As a key element of student education and faculty research, the library serves at the forefront of service and fully supports the commitment to a diverse campus environment.
See the Background Statement on Diversity and Excellence at http://library.mtsu.edu/administration/diversity
Minimum Qualifications: MLS or equivalent degree from an ALA accredited program. Minimum of three years of direct experience in the development of digital collections and/or digital repository. Record of professional experience related to copyright and digital rights management. Record of successful project management. Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across units. Evidence of ability to meeting the scholarly requirements for tenure and promotion.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with ContentDM, Omeka, or DSpace. Strong knowledge of metadata standards and formats. Previous experience in an academic setting. A record of successful grant writing. Experience with formal assessment, evaluation or usability methods.
Special Instructions to Applicants: Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.
Required documents for a complete application:
Cover Letter 
Curriculum vitae 
Submit as other document(s): 
Statement of teaching philosophy 
Research interest statement 
Additional Information: Official transcripts (not issued to student) of all college degrees and three letters of reference, specific to the position, will be required if you are selected for an on-campus interview.
Proof of U.S. citizenship OR eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Control Act of 1986). Clery Act crime statistics for MTSU available at http://police.mtsu.edu/crime_statistics.htm or by contacting MTSU Public Safety at 615-898-2424.
MTSU, a culturally diverse university, is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educational institution and employer. Women, ethnic minorities, and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

February 20, 2014

Director of Library Publishing

  • University of North Texas Libraries
  • Denton, TX

Rank/Title: Associate Librarian  
Job Summary/Basic Function:
Reporting to the UNT Dean of Libraries, the Director for Library Publishing will lead the development and operation of a prospective innovative program for collaborative publishing based in the UNT Libraries. Working closely with the Dean and other UNT stakeholders, the Director will provide overall leadership for the initiative, coordinate planning and operations for the UNT Libraries’ publishing programs. The Director will undertake a variety of activities to plan and build the proposed library publishing program, as follows. The positions is a temporary two-year appointment, with the possibility of subsequent reappointment. 
Identify and plan opportunities for library publishing endeavors; collaborative activities led by and based in the UNT libraries to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of scholarly, creative, and/or educational works, especially those that represent innovative yet sustainable new approaches to scholarship. Examples include online journals and on-demand print run items. 
Work collaboratively with UNT stakeholders including the UNT Press, Digital Scholarship Cooperative, Digital Libraries division, other library divisions, and UNT faculty on library publishing opportunities. 
Prepare grant applications in collaboration with other UNT stakeholders to generate start-up funds for library publishing endeavors. 
Generate new revenue streams for the UNT Libraries and Press through entrepreneurial activities, especially those that expand access to archival collections (both analog and digital). 
Provide expertise and advice regarding new primarily digital approaches to publishing, including conversion from plain text to XML, layout and typesetting, graphic design, and conceptualizing new digital forms of scholarship. 
Scope, plan, and manage prospective library publishing workflows for students and grant-funded specialists. 
Act as liaison between UNT and national Library Publishing Coalition. 
Engage in outreach efforts on the emerging topic of library publishing, including presentations to the UNT community and external groups.  
Minimum Qualifications:
MS/MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited program 
At least five years of professional experience in successful library publishing efforts. 
Strong knowledge of publishing and innovative approaches to publishing. 
Expertise and knowledge of advanced digital library systems, especially those supporting publishing efforts. 
Demonstrated aptitude for entrepreneurial planning in digital library efforts. 
Proven ability to plan and implement new programs. 
A self-starter with significant achievement in innovative library services. 
Excellent communication skills, including strong written, verbal and presentation skills. 
Proven ability to function as an effective team member, with the interpersonal and motivational skills necessary to work collaboratively with persons across disciplines and at all levels. 
Qualifications sufficient to be appointed at the level of Associate Librarian (without tenure) under the University of North Texas Librarians’ Procedures for Appointment, Evaluation and Promotion document.   
Area of Specialty: Director of Library Publishing  
Position Type: Faculty Equivalent  
Tenure Status: Non-Tenure Track  
Appointment Basis: 12 Months  
Pay Frequency: Monthly  
Non-Tenured Appointment Term: No Response  
Closing Date: Open Until Search Closed
Review of Applications Begins: 02-20-2014  
Required Applicant Documents:
Curriculum Vita
Cover Letter
List of Names and Contact Information of Three References

November 13, 2013

Head of Digital Scholarship Strategy

  • University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Las Vegas, Nevada

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for Head of Digital Scholarship Strategy.PROFILE of the UNIVERSITY
UNLV is a comprehensive research university of approximately 28,000 students and 2,900 faculty and staff dedicated to teaching, research, and service. The university has internationally recognized programs in hotel administration and creative writing; professional degrees in law, architecture, and dental medicine; and leading programs in fine arts, sciences and education. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in dynamic Southern Nevada. In 2009 the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC established Brookings Mountain West on the UNLV campus to study the region. For more information, visit us on-line at: http://www.unlv.edu.
PROFILE of the LIBRARIES DIVISION
This position is located within the Libraries’ Division of Logistics and Resources Distribution Services (LRDS). LRDS provides the Libraries’ functions of collection and content development and management, access and delivery of resources and bibliographic and metadata services. The LRDS Division includes the management of the high profile Digital Scholarship@UNLV institutional repository.
ROLE of the POSITION
The UNLV University Libraries’ collections are key to enhancing the teaching, research, and community engagement mission of the university. Given the rapid migration of scholarship and scholarly dissemination into the digital age, it is essential that the University Libraries continuously innovates to collect, manage, and deliver digital scholarly resources. The UNLV research collection of the future requires the integration of commercial digital content with rapidly emerging born-digital scholarship products such as data, websites, blogs, images, and multimedia.
The Head of Digital Scholarship Strategy is a newly created role tasked with developing content strategies aligned with our priorities to provide access to the latest digital scholarly resources, capture unique UNLV scholarly output, and integrate born-digital scholarly products into our collecting portfolio. This role will work through a library wide collections team that includes faculty from across the Libraries with designated collecting responsibilities such as Library Liaisons, the Director of Special Collections and the Head of Collection Management. The team will clarify collecting scope and responsibilities across all collecting areas and will identify and engage cross- organizational expertise in the collection, infrastructure, description and delivery of digital content
Reporting to the Director of LRDS this position will
Serve as a member of the LRDS leadership team, participating in overall management, strategic planning and operation of the division, its staff and its functions.
Lead the investigation and implementation of new strategies for collecting, managing, and preserving digital scholarly content and new forms of scholarly output, including but not limited to data sets, multimedia, blogs, images, and websites.
Identify, acquire, preserve, manage rights, and provide discovery for the research outputs for UNLV created scholarly products, including managing the staff and resources charged with the creation and growth of the institutional repository, Digital Scholarship@UNLV
Lead Libraries investigation of data acquisition with a special focus on determining the kinds of data appropriate for libraries acquisitions and the role of the Libraries in data lifecycle management for the campus.
Assist in collecting content in all formats that documents the region.
Stay abreast of emerging technologies, alternative publishing models, scholarly communication. developments and related legislative initiatives. Propose new initiatives as appropriate.
QUALIFICATIONSRequired: A master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association; experience as a supervisor of professional library staff in an academic library; minimum of two years experience building academic library collections in a research library setting; demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a variety of individuals and groups; demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, coordinate, implement and lead projects; understanding of the purpose and scope of institutional repositories, including issues, policies, service models, and strategies for securing appropriate content; knowledge of scholarly communication issues, Open Access initiatives, intellectual property and copyright issues, and new forms of publication and research activities; experience with defining and implementing data strategies in academic libraries; experience working effectively across an organization to achieve multiple strategic objectives; excellent oral and written communication skills.
Preferred: Demonstrated knowledge of digital content and metadata standards; knowledge of current digital collection platforms such as BePress, DSpace, CONTENTdm, and/or other repository tools; reputation, and scholarship record sufficient to meet criteria for appointment as a tenured faculty member.
SALARY RANGE
This is a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track position at Rank II or III (equivalent to an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor). Salaries are competitive with those at similarly situated institutions and dependent upon labor market. Position is contingent upon funding.
APPLICATION DETAILS
Submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference to each of the minimum and preferred qualifications because this is the information on which the initial review of materials will be based. Although this position will remain open until filled, review of candidates’ materials will begin on January 6, 2014 and best consideration will be gained for materials submitted prior to that date. Materials should be addressed to Head of Digital Scholarship Strategy Search Committee Chair, Annette Day and are to be submitted via on-line application at https://hrsearch.unlv.edu/. For assistance with UNLV’s on-line applicant portal, contact UNLV Employment Services at (702) 895-2894 or hrsearch@unlv.edu.