Digital Projects Librarian
Amherst College
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Amherst, Massachusetts
Principal duties and responsibilities
- Coordinates the daily operations of the Digital Production Center, including digitization, color management, and quality control activities
- Designs, documents, and oversees efficient digital production workflows supporting the creation of digital objects that conform to digital library standards
- Contributes to the development of policies, guidelines, and best practices; maintains documentation on digitization best practices and digital preservation policies
- Actively participates in the development of a digital preservation strategy for the Library
- Investigates and recommends digitization hardware and software; monitors and maintains specialized hardware and software to capture, manipulate, and save images
- Takes part in additional departmental activities such as metadata creation and migration, digital project consulting, and outreach
- Evaluates requirements of digitization projects and makes recommendations for appropriate methods of capture
- Trains digitization staff; trains and supervises student employees
- Communicates with vendors on issues related to hardware, software, and digitization of special formats such as audio and video; works with digitization vendors to establish project requirements and ensure quality of digital objects
- Participates in committees and work groups of the Library, College, and Five Colleges and at regional and national organizations as appropriate
- Demonstrates and facilitates effective communication throughout the Library and across the College
Required:
- Master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or foreign equivalent by time of appointment.
- Background in film photography, digital photography, and/or graphic arts; or experience in a production oriented digital studio environment; or experience in the imaging of two- and/or three dimensional objects for cultural heritage institutions.
- Knowledge of a wide range of digital library standards, particularly best practices for digitization.
- Experience using and supporting numerous types of digital imaging equipment including flatbed scanners and digital cameras.
- Project management skills.
- Ability to color calibrate monitors; experience using objective and subjective quality control assessments and performing color correction and image manipulation using standard digital imaging software.
- Familiarity with a variety of metadata standards, including MODS, METS, MIX, and VRA Core 4.0
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively. Ability to work closely with colleagues from all Library departments and with students, faculty, staff and College administrators.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills. Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals.
- Experience handling archives/special collections/institutional records.
- Commitment to further the College’s mission of diversity and inclusion.
- Job Type:
- full-time
- Telecommute:
- No
- Job URL:
- https://jobs.amherst.edu/view/opportu...
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