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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.

February 7, 2023

Digital Scholarship Specialist

  • Princeton University Library
  • Princeton, NJ

Overview

Princeton University Library seeks two curious and innovative Digital Scholarship Specialists (DSS) to support its growing digital scholarship program. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Digital & Open Scholarship, the DSS will collaborate closely with library colleagues within the Research Data & Open Scholarship department to train, support, and collaborate with Princeton researchers on emerging digital research and interactive scholarship.

The DSS will develop educational programming and consult on research that spans the full digital scholarship lifecycle. They will assess different tools and methods for projects, develop sustainable project plans, and identify and partner with experts across the library and university. The DSS will engage actively with the digital scholarship field, exploring and evaluating technologies and workflows that facilitate new ways to analyze, present, and teach digital research.

PUL is one of the world’s leading research libraries. It employs a dedicated and knowledgeable staff of more than 300 professional and support staff working in a large central library, 9 specialized branches, and 3 storage facilities. The Library supports a diverse community of 5,200 undergraduates, 2,700 graduate students, 1,200 faculty members, and many visiting scholars.  Its holdings include more than 7 million printed volumes, 5 million manuscripts, 2 million non-print items, and extensive collections of digital text, data, and images.  Further information: http://library.princeton.edu

Responsibilities

  • Designs and hosts programming and modules to raise awareness of and build skill sets in digital scholarship tools and methods
  • Provides values-based consulting and project planning on individual digital scholarship projects
  • Collaborates with researchers on digital scholarship projects that leverage supported digital scholarship applications and/or library collections
  • Partners with library and university stakeholders to identify and develop related resources and programming
  • Supervises and mentors students to support digital literacy and project development skills
  • Stays up-to-date regarding digital scholarship skill sets, technology trends, and emerging tools
  • Identifies and integrates new digital scholarship technologies as possible additions to library services and expertise
  • Documents learning objectives, projects, and consultations for service assessment and development
  • Contributes to library committees and initiatives in support of library organizational effectiveness and digital and open scholarship initiatives
  • Contributes actively to the digital scholarship field through participation in committees, conferences, workshops, and/or publications

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s or professional degree and/or a combination of education and experience
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience within the fields of digital scholarship, digital humanities, informational technology, interactive journalism, or other fields that leverage digital technologies to create and share digital narratives and research
  • Demonstrated experience creating and collaborating on digital projects that leverage technical expertise in an area such as, but not limited to web markup and styling, python, JavaScript, digital exhibition platforms, or MySQL
  • Demonstrated experience developing scaffolded educational and training experiences that accommodate a spectrum of audience experience levels and skill sets
  • Demonstrated experience using and thinking critically about digital technologies to create and share research
  • Openness and ability to learn new technologies and stay up to date regarding digital scholarship trends
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Princeton University Library is committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and advancing the University’s commitment to racial equity within our community and in the world. We encourage candidates from all diverse backgrounds and life experiences to apply for our positions. To find out more about PUL’s work towards greater inclusivity, equity, and diversity, please see PUL’s “About” page.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

February 2, 2023

Assistant Editor

  • Brown University Library
  • Providence, RI

Brown University Library seeks to hire a creative, highly organized, and enthusiastic individual for the new position of Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown University Digital Publications — launched with generous support from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities — is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative, expanding program committed to integrating diversity, equity, and social justice into the practice and production of digital publications for both scholarly audiences and the wider public. Landmark publications include Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020), recipient of the 2022 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History by the American Historical Association; Brown University’s Slavery and Justice Report with Commentary on Context and Impact (2021); Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World (Stanford University Press, 2022); A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022); and the 13-volume series Race & … in America. Thirteen other works are currently in development and represent a broad disciplinary range. BUDP also partners with the MIT Press to produce On Seeing, a multimodal book series exploring understudied questions at the intersection of visual culture and subjects such as race, care, decolonization, privilege, and precarity.

The Assistant Editor will work as part of a multi-skilled team of experts to develop complex born-digital scholarship intended for publication with leading academic presses. In close collaboration with the Director, the Assistant Editor will play a key role in supporting humanities scholars in the creation of new scholarly forms that present research and advance arguments in ways not achievable in a conventional print format, whether through multimedia enhancements or interactive engagement with research materials. The Assistant Editor will help conceptualize, research, and administer multimodal monograph projects by building rapport and working effectively with a wide range of collaborators, including but not limited to Brown faculty researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, designers and technological developers, and university press staff. The Assistant Editor will contribute to the acquisitions process, undertake developmental editing, and copyediting as needed, manage timelines and budgets, and assist in the preparation of archival and multimedia assets for individual projects while working on multiple projects simultaneously. The Assistant Editor will take a proactive, critically engaged approach to digital content development, continuously looking for ways to support underrepresented voices and perspectives. The Assistant Editor will help administer national training workshops such as Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities; and will participate in relevant meetings and events across and beyond the Brown campus.

The Assistant Editor will report to the Director of Brown University Digital Publications, part of Brown’s Center for Digital Scholarship at the University Library. The position is hybrid eligible (up to 3 days remote).

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in a humanities or humanistic social sciences discipline; advanced degree preferred
  • 3-5 years of digital project management and/or scholarly editorial experience
  • ​​Excellent copyediting skills, familiarity with style guides (CMOS preferred), and a firm grasp of rules of grammar and style; experience working for a publisher or for an academic journal preferred
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel; familiarity with one or more digital publishing platforms, such as Fulcrum, Manifold, PubPub, Scalar, or WordPress, preferred
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills with exceptional interpersonal abilities
  • Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, and ability to work creatively and effectively both independently and as a team member
  • Ability to set priorities, juggle competing demands, and meet deadlines
  • Must be highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, and understanding of the contributions a diverse workforce brings to the workplace
  • demonstrated interest in communicating humanities scholarship to non-specialist audiences

All offers of employment are contingent upon a criminal background check and education verification satisfactory to Brown.

January 30, 2023

Scholarly Communication Librarian I/II

  • Villanova University
  • Villanova, PA

Villanova University’s Falvey Library seeks an enthusiastic, innovative, and collaborative individual to shape and lead the Library’s scholarly communication program and related strategic initiatives in an open and inclusive academic library environment.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Research Services and Scholarly Engagement, the Scholarly Communication Librarian serves as the Library’s expert on services, training, and collaborative projects related to scholarly communication, and provides on-campus and in-person services as a member of the Library’s Research Services and Scholarly Engagement Department. The successful candidate will collaborate with faculty and students and advocate for their needs. The incumbent will develop innovative outreach strategies to ensure awareness of library services.

Scholarly communication services are growing at Falvey Library. There are opportunities for involvement in a range of scholarly communication emphases such as: publishing services, institutional repository management, assessment and impact metrics, copyright advising, and data management services.

Qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds and life experiences are encouraged to apply. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University’s mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University’s mission and values.

The Library offers flexible work schedules which allow some remote work. The University’s competitive benefits package includes tuition benefits among others. A 35-hour work week with the possibility of reduced work hours in summer.

The Scholarly Communication Librarian

  • leads assessment of scholarly communication and research data needs at Villanova University.
  • monitors open activities, such as open access publishing, open content, and open-source software, and trends in scholarly communication to be shared with the Library and University.
  • manages an open access subvention fund, oversees e-journal publishing using Open Journal Systems, and fosters the development of new open initiatives.
  •  partners with other library staff to reshape the research services portfolio to better meet campus needs and in support of new areas and forms of research and scholarship.
  • collaborates with university and library staff on activities related to open educational resources and digital scholarship.
  • acts as the liaison to library and university entities on scholarly communication matters.
  • designs, delivers, and evaluates scholarly communication related tutorials and workshops in multiple modalities to support teaching and research at the University.
  • participates in a collaborative model of general research support, assistance, and instruction.
  • represents Villanova University in scholarly communication professional organizations.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

  • MLS or equivalent degree from an ALA-accredited institution, or an advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
  • Academic background, professional experience, or an awareness of the information needs in a higher education setting and the functions of an academic library.
  • Ability to effectively articulate complex concepts such as copyright, fair use, and open access.
  • Knowledge of and interest in issues, trends and technologies related to academic research and scholarly communication practice.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including a collaborative approach to problem solving.
  • Independence and initiative, including the ability to be flexible and manage competing priorities.
  • Proficiency with PC applications, especially Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

  • Second advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
  • 1+ years of experience in an academic library or equivalent experience.
  • Experience advising others on scholarly communication topics.
  • Experience successfully managing collaborative projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement effective training modules/tools.
  • Demonstrated ability for developing effective and strategic partnerships with members of a diverse community.
  • Demonstrated interest and enthusiasm for developing and maintaining relationships with library user communities.

Rank:

The successful candidate will be appointed an appropriate Librarian rank depending on qualifications and experience.

Environment:

Falvey Library is situated in the heart of campus and is central to academic life at Villanova University. Falvey, with a dedicated staff of approximately 50 FTE, is a friendly and exciting place to be that values work-life balance. The Library developed VuFind, an open-source ILS discovery layer, which is used by organizations world-wide, and was the university library recipient of the ACRL 2013 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award.

Villanova University is located on a beautiful 260-acre suburban campus close to Philadelphia and was founded in 1842 by the Order of Saint Augustine. Ranked among the nation’s top universities, Villanova supports its students’ intellectual growth and prepares them to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them.

Nominations and Applications:

To be considered, applicants must submit a cover letter, resume and list of three references with contact information via the Jobs at Villanova website: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/25126.

This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

Villanova University requires COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty, and staff. Exemptions may be granted for medical or ethical reasons.