Digital Scholarship Librarian Job Opening in New York, New York - Book Business Job Connection

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Summary:

"NYU Division of Libraries seeks a Digital Scholarship Librarian to support the service portfolio of our Digital Scholarship Services team. The ideal candidate will provide client service, technical expertise, training, and support for tools and practices used by faculty and researchers engaged with digital scholarship and publishing, with a particular focus on the digital humanities. The candidate will join a highly collaborative team comprised of members from throughout NYU Libraries and NYU Information Technology Services, including Data Services, Scholarly Communication, Digital Library Technology Services, Digital Studio, Libraries’ subject specialists, and the NYU Abu Dhabi and Shanghai Libraries 

This position reports to the Head of Digital Scholarship Services and will also work under the guidance of the Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing. This position is a non-tenure-track faculty appointment.

The mission of the Digital Scholarship Services is to provide engaging, responsive, and human-centered services connecting the global NYU community to the resources they need for digital scholarship and publishing. In support of that mission, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will work with the team to:

Act as primary service contact for NYU’s DSpace institutional repository, the Faculty Digital Archive.

Advise patrons on website development, including content production, website architecture, hosting platforms, content migration, etc.

consultation for digital publishing software and methods, including WordPress, Omeka, ARTstor/Shared Shelf, open access, and open educational resources

Help scholars use common digital humanities tools and methods, such as text analysis; web scraping; GIS; scanning and OCR; data visualization; audio and video production; etc.

Provide training in digital scholarship tools and methods.

Manage projects to deploy new tools and services.

Advise on metadata creation related to publishing and repository services.

Evaluate user needs and service gaps; test new tools, platforms, and software with an eye to potential deployment at NYU; stay current on tools, trends, and methods to enhance services.

Participate in outreach and promotional events, maintain our web presence for digital scholarship services using social media, etc."

Link:

http://jobs.bookbusinessmag.com/jobseeker/job/35116510/digital-scholarship-librarian/new-york-university-division-of-libraries/

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Date tagged:

05/18/2017, 11:56

Date published:

05/18/2017, 07:56