Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian

Description

The Columbia University Libraries seek an innovative, collaborative, and
engaged Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian to provide technical
leadership and vision for re-imagining Columbia’s institutional repository
as a hub for scholarly communication and open knowledge creation across
campus. The librarian will have deep knowledge of cutting-edge scholarly
technologies and workflows that will help evolve the operations,
integrations, and services of the institutional repository. They will
collaborate with campus and community partners to gather requirements for
and implement innovative integrations with broader library, campus, and
general scholarly communication infrastructure, with the goal of supporting
frictionless scholarly workflows for new and evolving forms of scholarship
across and beyond the University. This new librarian position reports to
the Assistant Director for Scholarly Communication and Projects, and is
part of a values-driven team that encompasses scholarly communication,
digital humanities, and computing fundamentals.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the assistant director for scholarly communication, provide
technical leadership and vision for re-envisioning Columbia’s institutional
repository as a hub for scholarly communication across campus

• Collaborate with campus and community partners to gather requirements for
innovative integrations with broader library, campus, and general scholarly
communication infrastructure.

• Design, document, guide, manage, and automate workflows and processes for
ingest into the institutional repository, developing metadata profiles,
discovery mechanisms, and ingest procedures for emerging and evolving forms
of scholarship with the goal of reducing researcher workload and
interacting with existing systems in use by Columbia scholars, research
groups, and centers

• Analyze and develop tools and scripts to manage, migrate, transform, and
curate data and metadata

• Represent Columbia at relevant national and international conferences,
meetings, and organizations, particularly around linked open data, the
semantic web, and next-generation repositories

• Train and mentor student workers in accessioning content into the
repository and ensuring that materials are findable, accessible,
interoperable and reusable