Digital Archivist; Library Professional

What You Will Do

Come join a team of staff that is working to organize, digitize, and catalog the most mission‑critical physical collections at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). You will be on a dynamic team, supporting the Weapons Program, working for the Weapons Research Services (WRS) - National Security Research Center (NSRC) Digital Collections Group. The information you organize, digitize, and catalog will have an immediate impact to the Laboratory's mission.

You will be working with one of the largest libraries in the Federal Government, the NSRC. The NSRC is LANL's classified library, containing tens of millions of documents, films, books, and other archival material related to the development, testing and production of nuclear weapons, dating back to the first days of the Manhattan Project. The NSRC's collections contain a breadth of classified technical information related to physics, chemistry, engineering, material science, and national security.

As a Digital Archivist (Library Professional
2) you will be working with primary source materials and creating metadata/indexing information in support of a robust catalog/index in collaboration with the NSRC Digital Collections Group to assist in the retrieval of the material. You will provide quality control for born‑digital and digitized materials, metadata, and indexing and assist with the upload of digitized material and associated catalog information into the NSRC's National Security Data Solution database and other WRS‑supported repositories.

This will also include actively seeking out improvements to digital archiving and preservation processes and interfacing with customers to provide material assessments and acquisition support. You will apply specialized knowledge of born‑digital materials and legacy electronic storage media to support project workflows, contribute to training and knowledge‑sharing with staff, and assist with coordination of related activities. You will also support traditional digitization efforts as needed.

Minimum

Job Requirements:

Technical Knowledge: Demonstrated experience with tools and software used to capture, manage, transfer, and provide access to born digital content. Experience with digital preservation tools, systems, and workflows. Knowledge of operating multiple types of professional digitizing equipment for various media, such as paper, microfilm, microfiche, video or other media. Experience with metadata and data structure standards relevant to the archival control of digital materials.

Workflows & Processes: Demonstrated experience with developing digitization and preservation workflows and processes.

Customer Relations: Demonstrated experience handling sensitive situations, using sound and independent judgement. This position will require experience supporting customer requests and managing priorities and deadlines. This includes the creation and maintenance of operational guides and user training. You must have experience directly interfacing with customers.

Education/

Experience:

Position requires a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from a program accredited by the American Library Association and 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.

• Experience with programming languages and scripting:
  Python, Bash, or Power Shell for automation of extraction, conversion, and checksum validation
• Knowledge of API integration and workflow orchestration
• Understanding of the weapons program within LANL, along with experience working with classified material in a classified environment
• Experience working in a major archival organization, such as the National Archives and Records Administration, a museum, or a library with significant archival holdings. Experience assisting scientists and/or engineers search for relevant materials in a major university, government, or corporate library is desirable.
• Background in information technology, physics, chemistry, engineering, or material science.
• Demonstrated experience in continuous learning to enhance knowledge and required skills.
• A Digital…