Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale University

Job in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 76101, USA

Listing for: Digital Preservation Coalition

Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-10

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
Digital Media / Production, Technical Writer

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR

Vacancy for Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale University

United States

Full-Time

Reporting to the digital preservation manager, the Digital Preservation Librarian will work within the digital preservation team to preserve digital content for stakeholders at Yale University. They will act as an expert user of our digital preservation system, providing support for our digital preservation services as needed.

Consults with prospective content depositors and stewards of preserved content to ensure depositors can ingest content into the digital preservation systems, to ensure their content is appropriately preserved, and to ensure their content is appropriately accessible when requested.

Packages and ingests content on behalf of depositors. Automates the packing and ingest process wherever possible using scripts/programs and other automation tools.

Troubleshoots workflow issues and works closely with the content stewards to ensure they have the resources and training necessary to ingest, manage and access their content.

Uses system reporting functionality in both our preservation and EaaSI systems to provide insights into digital preservation processes and outcomes.

Works with the digital preservation team and other stakeholders to document policies and procedures related to the digital preservation services we offer.

Works to ensure the system and services can pass regular audits.

This position participates in Yale’s “Flex Place Work Arrangements” in a “Largely remote” capacity. No on-campus office will be assigned and working remotely will be expected.

This position will be assigned a rank of Librarian 1 to Librarian
3. Librarian ranking information can be found at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./YULRanks

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