Digitization Specialist

Description

The University of Kansas is seeking a Digitization Specialist to join the Digital Initiatives team in the Research and Engagement department at KU Libraries. 

Reporting to the Digitization Coordinator, the Digitization Specialist plays a crucial role in the digitization and preservation of physical materials in the university's scholarly and archival collections. The Digitization Specialist follows best practices in library digital collections and supports the Libraries scanning and digital photography operations, particularly still image digitization, including but not limited to archival materials in a variety of formats, such as bound volumes, photographs and transparencies, manuscripts, and oversize items. The primary focus of this role is to convert analog resources into digital formats while ensuring the integrity and accessibility of these digital assets. This position supports access to KU’s unique and interesting holdings in a wide range of topics by the KU community, students, researchers, and the world through digitization for KU’s digital repositories, exhibits, and patron requests.

Application review begins Monday, May 13, 2024 and continues until a pool of qualified applicants is received.

For complete job description and to apply, please visit http://employment.ku.edu/staff/27799BR