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Subject: U. of Iowa Coordinator for Digital Initiatives
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:20:50 -0500
From: McInroy, Mary R <[log in to unmask]>
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Please excuse duplication.
Mary McInroy
Government Publications Department
and Map Collection
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
(319)335-6247 or (319)335-5926
FAX: (319)335-5900
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Subject: [LIB-ANNOUNCE] Coordinator for Digital Initiatives
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
Position Vacancy
COORDINATOR FOR DIGITIAL INITIATIVES
Position Description: The Coordinator for Digital Initiatives (CDI)
provides leadership, coordination and advice for digital library
activities within the University of Iowa Libraries and, in collaboration
with the campus community, for the University as a whole. Reporting to
the Director for Collections and Content Development, the CDI works
closely with information technology units on campus and in the
Libraries, and with collection management, preservation, technical
services and other library staff in developing and expanding digital
library activities. The CDI collaborates with other units and
departments on campus to offer advice and assistance for digital
initiatives. The CDI works closely with other library units to ensure
that the full range of library expertise and resources are utilized in
building and managing digital collections. The CDI also works closely
with academic units across the University to identify, convert,
preserve, and share digital objects; identifies assets in need of
services, develops relationships with those responsible for managing
such assets, and shares expertise about archiving and metadata with the
campus; and seeks opportunities for statewide, national, and
international partnerships.
The CDI manages the budget of the unit, coordinates and implements
projects, and seeks external funding sources to continue the unit’s
work; collaborates with appropriate technology staff to integrate the
work of the digital initiatives unit with the digital library
architecture of the Libraries and University.
The CDI participates in the larger digital library community by actively
exploring questions related to digital repositories, and works to share
that knowledge through professional service, presentations,
publications, and other means.
Context: The Coordinator for Digital Initiatives will oversee a digital
initiatives unit that is expected to further the creation of and access
to research and scholarly material in digital form from across the
University of Iowa, both born digital objects and physical objects
captured in digital form. The unit will support in-house and externally
contracted digitization services, and seek to provide the best quality
and most sustainable digital objects or surrogates possible at a
reasonable cost. In collaboration with subject specialists, staff from
Academic Technologies, and others, the unit will offer expertise and
services to departments, labs, and centers of the University, in support
of the creation, collection, archiving, and dissemination of digital
content. To ensure high quality access to the digital objects, the CDI
works with other Libraries staff to develop metadata standards for
digital assets and share them with the campus through documentation,
training, and collaborative project planning. The CDI monitors and
participates in national and international initiatives to ensure that
local practice is compatible with emerging standards in the larger
digital collections community.
Qualifications
Required: An ALA-accredited masters degree in library or information
science, or the equivalent combination of advanced degree and relevant
experience; demonstrated understanding of emerging standards in digital
library systems and their application to digital repositories in
academic settings; demonstrated involvement in relevant professional
activities; familiarity with best practices for digitization, for
metadata development and capture, and for archival storage of digital
objects; ability to work in a complex organization, build and nurture a
cross functional team, and collaborate with a wide variety of partners;
ability to work well with faculty and other academic staff; excellent
written and verbal communication skills; evidence of planning and
project management skill.
Desired: Experience in obtaining external funding; two or more years of
growing responsibility and accomplishment in digitization or digital
repository development; experience partnering with diverse coalitions,
experience in academic and/or research library environments; experience
with the creation and capture of a wide variety of digital formats;
familiarity with digital asset management tools such as DigiTool,
ContentDM, etc.; experience with design and development of digital
library architecture and tools; financial management experience.
Salary and appointment: Appointment will be made at the Librarian II,
III, or IV level. The salary range is $40,000 – $70,000. The University
of Iowa offers an attractive package of benefits including 24 days of
paid vacation per year, TIAA/CREF retirement, and a flexible selection
of medical, life, dental, and vision insurance, childcare credit, and
additional options.
The University of Iowa Libraries: The University of Iowa library system
consists of the Main Library, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
and 10 branch libraries (Art, Music, Business, and the sciences). With
more than 4 million volumes, the Libraries ranks 30 out of 113 among the
Association of Research Libraries for size of collections. InfoHawk, the
Libraries’ integrated online system, uses ExLibris’ Aleph 500 software.
The Libraries has been innovative in the development of services related
to digital technologies with the creation of such units as the
Information Arcade and Information Commons. The University Libraries is
an active member of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), the
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the ARL SPARC Project.
The Libraries provides a program of support for professional development
activities and its staff members are actively engaged in national
cooperative efforts.
The University and Iowa City: A major research and teaching institution,
the University of Iowa offers internationally recognized programs in a
diverse array of academic, medical, and artistic disciplines, from
otolaryngology to fiction writing, printmaking to space science,
hydraulic engineering to dance. The University consists of a faculty of
2000 and a permanent staff of 15,000 serving 29,000 students, close to
10,000 of whom are registered in graduate and professional degree
programs. Approximately 8% of the University’s workforce is minority
faculty and staff, 9% of the student body are members of minority
groups, and 7% are international students. Iowa City is a community of
some 63,000 people with excellent educational, recreational, and
cultural advantages and was ranked the number one metropolitan area in
which to live by Editor & Publisher Market Guide in 1999. It is readily
accessible via interstate highways and a major airport only 30 minutes away.
Application Procedures: Applications must be received by October 29,
2004. Qualified applicants should submit, via US Mail or e-mail, a
letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses, and telephone
numbers of three references to: Susan Marks, Coordinator, Human
Resources & Diversity Programs, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City,
IA, 52242-1420 (319-335-5871), [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
EMPLOYER. WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
For more information about the University of Iowa Libraries, see our
website at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/index.html
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