Digital Initiatives Librarian

Digital Initiatives Librarian

The University of California, Irvine Libraries is seeking a dynamic, knowledgeable, collaborative, and user‑oriented professional for the position of Digital Initiatives Librarian. As an integral part of UC Irvine Libraries’ Data, Publishing, and Digital Scholarship (DPDS) Department (https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).), the Digital Initiatives Librarian provides essential contributions that bolster robust digital research and learning across all disciplines. The UC Irvine Libraries are fully committed to inclusive excellence and encourage applicants to address how their skills, expertise, and experiences might serve the varied communities of California.

Qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds and life experiences are encouraged to apply.

Reporting to the Head of Data, Publishing, and Digital Scholarship (DPDS), the Digital Initiatives Librarian (DIL) is a highly collaborative team member and will play a leadership role in the strategic development and stewardship of UC Irvine Libraries’ digital collections, contributing to capacity‑building, procedure development, and policy development for sustainable digital publishing, digital scholarship, and innovative research. The DPDS department fosters the use of transformative technology to manage, preserve, and share digital scholarship in an increasingly dynamic and computationally‑rich research ecosystem.

DPDS provides infrastructure, education, and consultation services that support research data management and curation, open access publishing, digital collection‑building, and critical literacies for digital research across disciplines.

• Providing leadership and collaborative management of UC Irvine Libraries’ distinctive digital collections, both special and general, created and stewarded by the Libraries.
• Serving as project manager for inter‑departmental projects related to digital collections, systems, publishing infrastructure, and research.
• Coordinating rights review process for digitization and digital publishing projects, in collaboration with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Proactively contributing to the management and growth of tools, services, and standards that promote dynamic, ethical digital collections and computationally rich digital scholarship.
• Working with library and external partners to identify and prioritize support needs, system improvement, and user experience for the libraries’ digital repositories and collections.
• Formulating strategies, policies, and procedures for digital projects in collaboration with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Serving as a representative/liaison to the California Digital Library on matters concerning digital libraries, digital collections, and related services.
• Engaging in outreach to encourage creative and innovative use of digital collections, emphasizing ethical re‑use of materials, digital humanities, and collections as data concepts.
• Maintaining awareness of grant opportunities and opportunities for collaboration that will enhance the Libraries capacity to participate in digitization and digital projects.
• Other duties as assigned, including permanent or interim subject liaison responsibilities depending on interests, background, and library needs.

Required:

• Graduate degree in library science from an ALA‑accredited institution or an equivalent combination of relevant advanced degree and library experience.
• Ability to contribute creative scholarly and technical expertise to the evolving strategic vision for data, publishing, and digital scholarship at UC Irvine Libraries.
• Demonstrated experience with project management and/or leading complex digital projects.
• Demonstrated experience with creating, developing, and maintaining strategies, policies, and workflows in areas including digitization, digital asset management, and digital publishing.
• Knowledge of scholarly communication, intellectual property and rights management.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical collaborators.
• Commitment to user‑centered library services.
• Ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and…