Digital Collections Librarian: Assistant or Associate Librarian

Job Title

Digital Collections Librarian:
Assistant or Associate Librarian

Steward and Sustain

Regular

Salary

• Assistant: $55,000
• Associate: $63,000

• Assistant: $63,000
• Associate: $72,000

Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and experience.

40

Yes

Miami University Libraries seeks a collaborative, knowledgeable,and service-oriented Digital Collections Librarian to lead its digital collections program, with primary responsibility for digitized and born-digital special collections and shared responsibility for digital preservation.

Reporting to the Head of Special Collections & Archives, the Digital Collections Librarian develops sustainable practices for managing digital materials throughout their lifecycle—from selection, acquisition, and rights review through digitization, description, preservation, discovery, use, and assessment.

The librarian collaborates with library colleagues, partners, patrons, and community stakeholders. The position advances teaching, research, digital scholarship, exhibitions, and public engagement involving the distinctive collections of Miami University Libraries.

The Walter Havighurst Special Collections, University Archives, and Preservation unit stewards more than 125,000 rare books and other printed materials, more than 600,000 postcards, university and institutional archives, manuscript collections, and a wide range of distinctive materials of national and international significance.

The archival collections document the history of Miami University, Western College for Women, Oxford College for Women, and the communities connected with these institutions.

Miami University Libraries’ digital collections provide online access to photographs, manuscripts, publications, newspapers, audiovisual materials, and other digital objects. Collections include the Recensio yearbooks, Miami University Board of Trustees minutes, Miami University historical photographs, Western College materials, Oxford College materials, and other resources supporting research, teaching, and public engagement.

• Lead the planning, implementation, documentation, and assessment of projects involving digitized and born-digital special collections and archival materials.
• Develop and manage sustainable workflows for selection, acquisition, digitization, quality control, repository ingest, digital preservation, discovery, and access.
• Establish policies, technical specifications, and procedures for born-digital materials, web archives, digitization, digital preservation, storage, migration, and long-term access.
• Assess preservation risks, evaluate emerging technologies and professional practices, and collaborate with Library Technology and other partners on infrastructure, security, backup, integrations and service improvements.
• Coordinate and supervise the work of student employees, interns, and other project participants.

• Develop and assess metadata practices that support the description, management, preservation, discovery, and reuse of digital collections.
• Create, transform, remediate, and migrate descriptive, administrative, structural, technical, and preservation metadata using appropriate standards and tools.
• Support the administration and development of digital collections, archival management, and digital preservation platforms, including system configuration, testing, upgrades, troubleshooting, and integration with other discovery systems.
• Promote accessible, inclusive, user-centered, and culturally responsible access while addressing copyright, privacy, intellectual property, donor restrictions, cultural sensitivity, and other legal and ethical considerations.

• Promote the discovery and use of Miami University Libraries’ digital and physical distinctive collections through research assistance, consultations, instruction, outreach, and public programming.
• Collaborate with faculty, students, researchers, and campus partners to integrate primary sources and digital collections into teaching, research, digital scholarship, and experiential learning.
• Develop or support physical and digital exhibitions, digital storytelling projects, workshops, guides, and other interpretive or instructional resources.
• Build relationships with academic departments, campus organizations, alumni, community partners, and other audiences to expand awareness and use of the collections.

• Participate in developing and maintaining special collections and archival holdings, including identifying and prioritizing materials for digitization, preservation, and online access.
• Assess the technical, preservation, metadata, storage, rights, and access implications of potential acquisitions,…