Digital Archivist at Archives and Rare Book Library, Librarian Position

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Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to nearly 48,000 students, about 11,000 faculty and staff and 332,000 alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, eight straight years of record enrollment, worldwide leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 athletic conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget tops $1.65 billion and its endowment totals $1.8 billion.

 

About the Department

The Archives and Rare Books Library holds the University's Rare Books, University Archives, Local Government Records, Urban Studies Collections, and German-Americana collections. The Archives and Rare Books Library is located on the 8th floor of Blegen Library on the University of Cincinnati's uptown campus.

 

During the 2021-2022 academic year, ARB served more than 600 users via in-person appointments, phone, and email reference.  ARB serves the University of Cincinnati faculty, students, and staff along with researchers and members of the general public from around the world. ARB faculty and staff teach and co-teach with faculty from a variety of disciplines using the archival and rare book collections. 

Job Overview

Full-time tenure-track faculty appointment responsible for developing and implementing digital workflows including, but not limited to, born-digital archives, the digitization of existing hard copy materials, and the digital preservation of established electronic records. Coordinates and provides technological support for ARB staff including the ARB website, discovery of digital content, and maintenance of digital collections and exhibitions.

 

Receives general direction from and reports to the head of the Archives & Rare Books Library (ARB). For digital initiatives and digital collection building projects, works with UCL Contents Services staff.

Essential Functions

• Provides expertise on workflows, tools, and best practices to support the management of born digital content, including, but not limited to emails, web content, social media, and content on legacy physical media. 
• Strategize, develop, and communicate processes for accessioning, ingesting, processing, describing, and preserving born-digital materials with ARB’s collections. 
• Oversee the digitization of in-house materials, including manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials, and the creation of accompanying metadata; coordinates with outside vendors for other formats as needed. 
• Collaborates in planning and creating digital collections, including digital object creation or organization of born-digital objects, metadata creation, and collection building through both batch and online methods. 
• Serves on Libraries or University-wide teams as needed to create digital collections workflow as well as discovery and access solutions.
• Organizes and creates online access to born-digital materials collected for collections or records management. 
• Maintains web applications on the ARB website and collaborates in the support of other UC Libraries websites, using standards-compliant markup, web technologies, and best practices in accordance with UC website policies and hardware/software standards and practices. 
• Provides reference service for born-digital records and digital content as needed. 

Essential Functions Continued

• Assists in maintaining ARB collection databases, including collection descriptions, images, and documents; maintains ARB web content as provided by the Head of the Archives & Rare Books Library.
• Provides oral and written reports as directed. 
• Supervise student assistants as needed. 
• Promotes digital projects through blog posts and social media. 
• Participate in appropriate, meetings, committees and organizations related to the duties and responsibilities of the department, and in support of UC Libraries programs and organizations.

Required Education

Master's degree in library science or information science from an ALA-accredited institution with a demonstrated understanding of digital librarianship, or a graduate degree in a related field.

Required Experience

• Familiarity with archival and special collections standards and best practices, especially as they relate to the particular issues posed by born-digital content.