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February 22, 2023

Library Publishing Developer

  • University of Oklahoma
  • Norman, OK

The University of Oklahoma Libraries seeks to recruit a creative, mission-driven applications developer to join our Cloud Infrastructure & Development team in the Digital Strategies and Innovation Division. Reporting to the Technical Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the development and operation of our library publishing and digital repository platforms.

Additionally, the position supports other key scholarly communication infrastructure, collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and organizational boundaries to plan, build, and operate key components of the OU Libraries technology strategy.

The employment package for this position may include the ability to work remotely.

Special Instructions to Applicants:
Applicants must attach the following documents in pdf format:
– Cover Letter
– Resume
– List of 3 Professional References
Hire will be contingent on submission of academic transcripts

Job Requirements

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree, AND: 

  •  24 months of experience in application and software development

Equivalency/Substitution: Will accept 48 months related experience in lieu of the bachelor’s degree for a total of 72 months related experience

Skills:

  • Ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse backgrounds in respectful, equitable, and inclusive ways.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with end-users of varying technological backgrounds.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities.
  • Leadership skills to effectively coordinate and motivate project team members.
  • Strong time management skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once, and ability to meet assigned deadlines.
  • Strong knowledge of the PHP ecosystem and server platforms and experience with PHP-based web application design, development, and maintenance.
  • Experience developing applications using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.
  • Experience in Web Accessibility Standards (ADA, WCAG 2.1 AA, and Section 508 accessibility requirements).
  • Ability to learn and support new systems and applications.
  • Ability to develop unique software tools customized to meet the needs of University Libraries’ users and staff.

Certifications:

  • None.

Advertised Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to use a computer daily.

Departmental Preferences:

  • Experience with or evidence of understanding academic libraries and their users.
  • Experience with the Islandora repository system or Drupal CMS.
  • Experience with the Open Journal System.
  • Understanding of mobile design UX/UI; knowledge of responsive design principles.
  • Experience with database programming with SQL and Maria DB or MySQL.
  • Experience with SOLR.
  • Experience using website analytics tools to create meaningful reports.
  • Experience with AWS cloud computing services, such as Lambda, Fargate, EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudFront.

Special Instructions: If you are selected as a final candidate for this position, you will be subject to The University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Tuberculosis Testing policy. To view the policy, visit https://hr.ou.edu/Policies-Handbooks/TB-Testing.

Diversity Statement: The University of Oklahoma is committed to achieving a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community by recognizing each person’s unique contributions, background, and perspectives. The University of Oklahoma strives to cultivate a sense of belonging and emotional support for all, recognizing that fostering an inclusive environment for all is vital in the pursuit of academic and inclusive excellence in all aspects of our institutional mission.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: The University of Oklahoma, in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, disability, political beliefs, or status as a veteran in any of its policies, practices, or procedures. This includes, but is not limited to, admissions, employment, financial aid, housing, services in educational programs or activities, and health care services that the University operates or provides.

February 15, 2023

Institutional Repository Librarian

  • West Virginia University
  • Morgantown, WV

The Knowledge Access & Resource Management (KARM) Department in the Libraries at West Virginia University is seeking applications for an Institutional Repository Librarian. The Institutional Repository Librarian is responsible for managing the West Virginia University Institutional Repository and related technologies, with a focus on metadata to facilitate discovery, acquisition, and assessment of collections, and identity management to increase the impact of WVU’s intellectual output.  Collaborating with institutional stakeholders to acquire and promote the University’s digital and open scholarship and to maintain compliance with federal funding mandates, this position provides customer service and outreach to West Virginia University faculty, staff, students, and research affiliates, evaluates and implements third party integrations, and serves as workflow manager for projects within and across Libraries open publishing initiatives and the KARM Department. The Institutional Repository Librarian reports to the Head of Metadata Services in KARM.

  • Maintain and improve current IR metadata for digital and open collections, including but not limited to conferences, journals, campus policies and publications, and research information and datasets
  • Design, evaluate, and implement processes for harvesting, ingesting, syncing, and transforming new collections of metadata from across a variety of platforms
  • Work with the Scholarly Communications Librarian, Liaison Librarians, and other Libraries Departments to identify candidate IR content and reach out to scholars and rightsholders
  • Collaborate with Scholarly Communications Librarian, Liaison Librarians, and other Libraries Departments to deliver consultations on the use, reuse, and management of research data
  • Manage workflows for IR Projects, including student submissions of ETD’s, in consultation with the Head of Metadata Services and the Scholarly Communications Librarian
  • Maintain usage statistics for established needs like the ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey and develop new usage metrics to assess IR content and its visibility
  • Collaborate and consult with WVU faculty, staff, students, and librarians to develop collections and metadata best practices
  • Create and update tutorials, guides, and other instructional materials on IR submissions, collections, and search strategies, and on current Open Access publishing models
  • Maintain and update repository policies and information in consultation with Research Services on public-facing platform(s)
  • Engage the IR in identity management for WVU Scholars by maintaining metadata related to authorities, references, and citations, including DOI’s
  • Maintain awareness of scholarly impact metrics and investigate novel ways to interface the IR to citation management systems, public discovery services, social media, or other relevant sources of impact data
  • Assist Libraries and Campus stakeholders in planning and implementing activities supporting compliance with open publishing mandates for federally funded research, including maintaining metadata for open publications and data sets on platforms outside the Institutional Repository
  • Assist Libraries and Campus stakeholders in selecting and/or implementing Institutional and Data Repository platform(s)
  • Work with the Head of Metadata and Scholarly Communications Librarian to accommodate use of the Repository by Libraries faculty for research into metadata or discovery methodologies
  • Monitor and contribute to local, regional, and national discussion relating to metadata standards, IR platforms, and emergent practices in scholarly communication
  • Serve on appropriate committees in the Libraries and on campus

Qualification

In order to be successful in this position, the ideal candidate will have:

  • ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or international equivalent graduate degree
  • Experience with library digital repositories
  • Knowledge of Dublin Core, and other metadata schemas, e.g. EAD
  • Experience with mark-up languages including XHTML, XML
  • Knowledge of and demonstrated interest in Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and Copyright
  • Project management skills including prioritizing workload, managing a variety of tasks, and completing projects in a timely manner
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with Department staff and librarians
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred:

  • Familiarity with or willingness to learn transformation languages, e.g. XSLT, CSS
  • Familiarity with or willingness to learn Python and other scripting languages, e.g. JavaScript
  • Experience with API’s

Applicants should include a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, and three (3) references.

We welcome beginning or early career librarians and will fill these positions at the rank of Staff Librarian or Assistant University Librarian. Rank and salary are dependent upon post-MLS experience and credentials.

February 14, 2023

Publishing Librarian I/II

  • Wayne State University
  • Detroit, MI

Essential Functions (Job Duties)

The Wayne State University Library System (WSULS) seeks an innovative, service-oriented Publishing Librarian to advance the University’s mission to create and advance knowledge, prepare a diverse student body to thrive, and positively impact local and global communities. Wayne State’s unique characteristics, as both an R1 research and an access institution in the heart of Detroit, offer the interested candidate the opportunity to advance equitable publishing practice in a rigorous academic environment, leveraging the power of peoples’ individual identities and diverse perspectives to produce scholarly content in multiple forms. As academic staff in the AAUP-AFT bargaining unit, the Publishing Librarian joins a collegial body of mutual support, and the opportunity to participate in shared governance with the university.

The successful candidate joins a long-standing library publishing program, which is a founding member of the Library Publishing Coalition. Within WSULS’ Discovery Services Unit, the digital publishing team supports active journals, open textbooks, and the University’s institutional repository. Alongside other WSULS units, the publishing team is working or has worked on open educational resources, digital pedagogy outreach and training materials, and digital humanities projects, as well as open-access backlist eBooks and journal archives from the university press. Candidates for this position may contribute to many of these publishing projects, or others that they may create. As we expand library publishing, WSULS seeks to further its leadership in digital-publishing workflows, infrastructures, and pedagogy and welcomes a librarian whose commitment to uncommon thinking in these areas will push forward our diversity of thought, embodied practice, and publication outreach. For more information on our current work, see http://publishing.library.wayne.edu.

Position Description:

The Publishing Librarian works within the Discovery Services Unit under the supervision of the Assistant Dean. The Library Publishing team is focused on sustainable open publishing, with a pedagogical focus on new practitioners and a commitment to supporting our campus in its engagement with the scholarly communication ecosystem. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including faculty, librarians, students, and the broader community to conceive, enact, advance, and sustain digital, open, library-centered publishing and scholarship. This position has broad latitude to collaborate with partners within and outside the university to pursue advancements in areas including but not limited to new conceptions and outputs of library publishing, publishing workflows and competencies, digital publishing platforms, publishing pedagogy, and digital humanities. Publishing librarians often team with liaison librarian colleagues to support scholarly communication and copyright initiatives in the university. This position also supports Wayne State University library’s institutional repository (currently Bepress’s Digital Commons) in collaboration with the Library Publishing team, including ETD management, journal publishing, and outreach to students and faculty for projects appropriate to the IR.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Collaborate with partners inside and outside the library to conceive and support open scholarship, repository services, and other publishing-related initiatives.
  • Translate ideas developed in collaboration with partners into actionable workflows and infrastructure in the library, with an emphasis on open digital models.
  • Provide project management for ongoing Initiatives in the support and advancement of scholarly publishing services.
  • Provide consultation and support to librarians and the university community on issues related to scholarly publishing, copyright, and scholarly communications
  • Undertake reasonable efforts to remain knowledgeable about current developments in library publishing and related areas in librarianship
  • Contribute to the production activities of the publishing team.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated ability to work both collaboratively and independently to manage projects and initiatives, to set priorities, and to adapt to changing workflows and tools.
  • Master’s degree in Library and/or Information Science from an ALA- accredited library school.
  • Evidence of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in an institutional setting.
  • Curiosity and a commitment to learn where knowledge gaps exist, including new tools and technologies.
  • Understanding of scholarly communication issues.
  • Competency in identifying, analyzing, and solving problems.
  • Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience or competency in one or more areas of professional practice in scholarly publishing and/or repository management.
  • Knowledge of publishing trends, issues, and strategies, and/or current digital publishing technologies, standards, and best practices.
  • Experience instantiating and/or working with the evolving ecosystem of digital tools, scholarly publishing platforms, and/or design software.
  • Experience teaching and/or providing digital publishing or repository outreach in an academic setting
  • Experience with metadata, or with a markup language like XML or HTML.
  • Experience with issues relating to copyright, fair use, or rights management.

Appointment/Benefits

This is a full-time, regular, 12-month, benefits-eligible appointment as Academic Staff, represented by the AAUP-AFT on an Employment Security Status track. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, employee/dependent life and long-term disability insurance, retirement savings plans, tuition assistance, and generous paid time off. The minimum starting salary for this position at Librarian I is $59,000 and the maximum salary for this position at Librarian II is $63,800. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Questions can be directed to the chair of the search committee, Joshua Neds-Fox, at dp5745@wayne.edu.