Job Posting: Senior Library Assistant, Digital Initiatives, Tufts University
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Nicholas Homenda
Jan 16, 2025, 11:05:27 AMJan 16
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Hello,
Nicholas Homenda
Head of Digital Initiatives, Tisch Library
Tufts University
35 Professors Row
Medford, MA 02155
Nicholas...@tufts.edu
(617) 627-0538
Pronouns: he/him/his
Job Description
Overview
The Resource Management and Repository Services Department provides support for the creation, management, and preservation of scholarship. The department cultivates teamwork and collaborative relationships within and outside Tisch Library to provide resources and services for Tufts University.
What You'll Do
Reporting to the Head of Digital Initiatives, the Senior Library Assistant for digital initiatives is part of a collaborative team that provides digital library services to Tufts University. This position is responsible for managing Tisch Library’s digitization program, supervising the student digitization assistant position, and performing quality control and workflow procedures for digitized materials. The Library Assistant is responsible for creating and maintaining digital items, collections, and metadata added to the institutional repository. This position will also work on special projects and ongoing initiatives to incorporate automation and AI tools into the department’s workflows.
Essential Functions:
This is a hybrid role that is expected to be on campus at least 2-3 days each week.
Tufts University is hiring for a Senior Library Assistant, Digital Initiatives, in Tisch Library. Please see the posting details below and feel free to contact me with any questions.
Best wishes,
Head of Digital Initiatives, Tisch Library
Tufts University
35 Professors Row
Medford, MA 02155
Nicholas...@tufts.edu
(617) 627-0538
Pronouns: he/him/his
_____________________________________________________
Overview
The Resource Management and Repository Services Department provides support for the creation, management, and preservation of scholarship. The department cultivates teamwork and collaborative relationships within and outside Tisch Library to provide resources and services for Tufts University.
What You'll Do
Reporting to the Head of Digital Initiatives, the Senior Library Assistant for digital initiatives is part of a collaborative team that provides digital library services to Tufts University. This position is responsible for managing Tisch Library’s digitization program, supervising the student digitization assistant position, and performing quality control and workflow procedures for digitized materials. The Library Assistant is responsible for creating and maintaining digital items, collections, and metadata added to the institutional repository. This position will also work on special projects and ongoing initiatives to incorporate automation and AI tools into the department’s workflows.
Essential Functions:
- Manage Tisch Library’s digitization program by training and supervising students creating preservation-quality digital surrogates of collection materials
- Assess quality control on digitized materials, digitize select collections materials requiring special attention, and provide digitization guidance through consultations
- Assist in creating, maintaining, and enhancing metadata for digital resources cataloged for the Tufts institutional repository
- Provide original descriptive metadata for Tufts theses and dissertations
- Assist with special projects as assigned
- Supervise Student Digitization Assistant
What We're Looking For
Basic Requirements:
Basic Requirements:
- Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a Bachelor’s degree
- At least 2 years’ experience working in a library, archives, museum, or cultural heritage organization setting
- Digitization experience; familiarity with basic principles of photography, editing software like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, and interest in learning more
- Knowledge of basic cataloging standards and concepts with ability to apply them to specific materials
- Experience using specific metadata standards, such as MARC, MODS, Dublin Core, and/or markup languages, such as HTML, XML, Markdown
- Experience with Alma integrated library management system
- Experience with command line tools, scripting languages like Python, and other related technical skills
- Knowledge of a foreign language
- Supervisory experience
This is a hybrid role that is expected to be on campus at least 2-3 days each week.
Pay Range
Minimum $24.30, Midpoint $28.90, Maximum $33.50
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
Minimum $24.30, Midpoint $28.90, Maximum $33.50
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
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