Digital Lifecycle Program Librarian - Library

Digital Lifecycle Program Librarian - Library

Anticipated start:
As early as March 2025. Start date is flexible.

Position duration:
This is a full‑time potential career appointment.

Application Window
Open date:
February 9, 2025

Next review date:
Sunday, Mar 9, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date:
Sunday, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and user‑oriented colleague as the Digital Lifecycle Program (DLP) Librarian. This role guides, manages, and coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, and outreach of digital initiatives, including digital collections, platforms, preservation, and projects. The DLP Librarian develops strategies, policies, procedures, best practices, and system requirements to support digitized and born‑digital collections, including long‑term digital preservation, access, discovery, reuse, and management.

The DLP Librarian, as part of the Library IT Division, is a strong leader and partner for digital initiatives, coordinating and cultivating relationships with all libraries, divisions, and units within the UC Berkeley Library to support digital initiatives. The DLP Librarian will be a skilled project manager and effective communicator. The role is highly collaborative, working with staff throughout the Library to plan and manage projects.

The Environment

The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned teaching and research facility at one of the nation's premier public universities. A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 33,000 undergraduate students, over 12,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 13 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills.

The Library Information Technology (Library IT) Division, within the UC Berkeley Library, is charged with the design, development, management, and maintenance of flexible and reliable technology environments for the Library. This includes the development and management of digital collections and services and their associated digital discovery and access platforms; creation of digital content; digital preservation tools; the development of a fully accessible and responsive library web presence that applies user experience principles and strategies;

the development and support of server‑based technologies for the delivery of library services; the maintenance of library management and discovery systems; the management of the Library's computing services including desktop support, software, and Library labs for Library staff and public; and the development and delivery of frameworks and applications to support collaborative storage, delivery, and preservation of information resources. The digital and library technology applications and collections developed and managed by Library IT are research vehicles that are used by Library patrons ranging from UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff, other institutions' faculty and graduate students, to the general public.

Reporting to the Head of the Library IT Division and under their leadership, planning, and policy direction this position works closely with the Library IT department heads in Digitization Services, Applications Development Services, Dev Ops, Systems and Discovery, and project managers. This position is a member of Library IT's leadership team. This position oversees, and is responsible for, the entire lifecycle of digital and digitized collections -- from project selection and digitization to digital publishing and preservation.

Working with collection stakeholders (curators and subject librarians) and functional experts (Metadata Services, Scholarly Communication and…