Position Details
University of Colorado | Denver
Faculty Level/Title: Instructor
Working Title: Digital Initiatives Librarian
FTE: Full-time 1.0 FTE | Hybrid 
Salary Range: $60,000 – 65,000
Position #00001655– Requisition #38107
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About the University of Colorado - Denver 
Millions of moments start at CU Denver, a place where innovation, research, and learning meet in the heart of a global city. We’re the state’s premier public urban research university with more than 100 in-demand, top ranked bachelors, master’s, and doctoral degree programs. We partner with diverse learners—at any stage of their life and career—for transformative educational experiences. Across seven schools and colleges, our leading faculty inspires and works alongside students to solve complex challenges and produce impactful creative work. As part of the state’s largest university system, CU Denver is a major contributor to the Colorado economy, with 2,000 employees and an annual economic impact of $800 million. To learn more about how CU Denver helps learners meet their moment, visit ucdenver.edu. 

Job Description
* Applications are accepted electronically ONLY at www.cu.edu/cu-careers*
The Digital Initiatives Librarian implements the strategic vision of the Auraria Library’s digitization initiatives and institutional repository. By partnering with faculty, researchers, and students, they advance open scholarship and provide the guidance needed to successfully engage with the changing landscape of digital publishing and academic dissemination. This includes participating in the selection and project management of digitization projects, the creation of digital collections in the digital library software, ingensting new content and maintaining the institutional repository, defining and creating metadata workflows to enhance the collections’ discoverability, managing the software storing and displaying the digital objects, and supervising the library’s digitization lab. 

As a library faculty member, the Digital Initiatives Librarian participates on Library and campus-wide committees and in CU Denver faculty governance.

Digital Initiatives Librarian 
What you will do:
Duties include, but are not limited to:

• The creation of digital objects from items selected to be added to the digital collection.
• Communication with stakeholders about the solicitation of new and the creation of access to local digital collections.
• Management of the hardware and software used to create, provide access to, and preserve digital objects.
• Management of the library’s institutional repository and the preservation of the three institution’s scholarly and student work.
• Serve as a trusted resource and collaborator on copyright around local library digital collections and the institutional repository, applying knowledge on current and emerging practices in the creation of digital objects.
• Coordinates the access and storage of electronic theses and dissertations. 
• Performs the preservation of digital objects.
• Creates the digital infrastructure to create and provide access to loc