Director, Digital Library Applications, New York Public Library

"The New York Public Library (NYPL) is embarking on an ambitious multi-year initiative to dramatically increase digital access to its collections, services, and expertise. To drive this effort forward, The Library seeks an innovative leader with a deep background in digital and open web technologies to direct the development, maintenance, and scaling of the Library’s core collection, content and data management systems.  NYPL is a bustling urban library system with 92 locations, and is also among the world's great research libraries and archival repositories. The Director of Digital Library Applications will enjoy the privilege and challenge of managing systems that store, preserve, and provide access to collections spanning the full range of human achievement: from the earliest written records of Mesopotamian civilization to the first recorded moving images; from Jefferson's original drafts of the Declaration of Independence to the electronic correspondence and experimental video games of Timothy Leary. Going forward, a top priority for The Library will be not only preservation and access, but expansive public use of these assets in a diverse range of contexts including scholarly research, teaching and learning, large-scale data mining and analysis, and new forms of digital creativity...."