Assistant Librarian – Digital Curation
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX · On-site · Faculty (Full-time)
Performs complex professional and administrative functions in the operation of a specialized section in the library; must cooperate and function as part of a team to provide services to all library users. This is an entry-level rank assigned to those beginning their professional careers or those, who upon their appointment, do not meet the criteria of Associate Librarian. Work is performed under general supervision with latitude for individual initiative and judgment. Evaluation is based upon accomplishment of defined objectives. May supervise various technical and clerical library employees.
Major/Essential Functions
In line with TTU's strategic priorities to engage and empower a multi-faceted student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience working with various student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.
As a faculty member in the University Libraries you will be expected to:
Digital Scholarship:
- While working closely with the Director and Lab Manager, supports, manages, and coordinates daily operations in the Digital Scholarship Lab.
- Designs, documents and oversees efficient digital production workflows supporting the creation of digital objects that conform to digital library standards.
- Ensures digitization projects proceed according to their respective schedules and maintains documentation on digitization best practices.
- Liaises with TTU faculty, staff, and students across a variety of fields to help create well-organized project layouts and progression expectations. Acts as an advocate for accessible digital scholarship.
- Assists with additional project responsibilities such as metadata creation, document scanning, processing, quality review, and audit.
- Creates, maintains, and revises documentation pertaining to project details and specific workflows.
Communication:
- Communicates with vendors to investigate and recommend digitization hardware and software.
- Maintains excellent written and oral communication with library faculty and staff. Disseminates information that is clear to all levels of library faculty and staff in the form of email updates, attendance at faculty meetings, and other appropriate means.
Open Scholarship:
- Advocates for open scholarship, open science, and open access resources within the Library and the TTU campus community as it relates to digital scholarship. Serves in a liaison role between the Digital Scholarship Lab and faculty and students outside the Libraries.
- Participates in strategic outreach in collaboration with other Library faculty, [such as the Open Educational Resources Librarian], in a supporting role to promote tools and services of open scholarship and open data such as ThinkTech, ORCID Identifiers, Digital Object Identifiers, and TTU's Dataverse Collection.
- Keeps up to date with established and new open discipline-specific scholarship.
Tenure & Promotion:
- This is a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Librarian, and the librarian is a member of the Texas Tech University Libraries' faculty. Librarian faculty serve on committees and task forces both at the library and the university level and take leadership roles in local, state, and national/international library and academic societies and organizations. Librarians are expected to share expertise and results of research with other information professionals via development of new technologies, publication in refereed journals, poster sessions, and/or presentations at professional meetings.
Faculty Qualifications
- ALA-accredited Master's degree in Library and Information Science (MLS/MLIS)
- Familiarity with one or more metadata schemas such as Dublin Core (DCMI), METS, MODS, etc.
- Familiarity with digital collection workflows including digitization and digital curation.
Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the required qualifications, individuals with the following preferred qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply:
- Familiarity with digital content management systems such as CONTENTdm or DSpace.
- Familiarity with metadata standards.
- Familiarity with digitization standards and best practices.
- Familiarity with open scholarship resources.
- Experience with workflow development and project management.
