Salve Regina University Job Posting: Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Library Systems and Collections

"The Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Library Systems and Collections will share responsibility for strategic planning and resource allocation to develop digital services and steward library collections to support teaching and learning at Salve Regina University. Working with other librarians, staff, and campus partners, the incumbent will envision and implement services for the role of technology and digital scholarship to support the library's role as a partner in teaching, learning and research. The incumbent will lead a team to continuously enhance the library's online search interfaces and print and digital collections. This position reports to the library director.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive innovation and encourage interdisciplinary inquiry by providing support in the digital humanities and digital social sciences, and to technologies that enable this work;

Enhance the creation and dissemination of research and scholarship at Salve Regina University by monitoring emerging trends and supporting the creation and discovery of open access scholarship and new forms of scholarly digital media and publishing;

Advise Salve Regina University researchers on using digital tools and techniques to enrich their research and provide access to their scholarship;

Coordinate and provide instruction and training on digital scholarship tools, techniques, and methodologies;

Develop opportunities for collaboration and other outreach related to digital scholarship in collaboration with faculty members, librarians, students, and the wider community;

Refine and build on existing modes of access for local and external audiences to access Salve Regina's research and scholarship;

Serve as manager of library systems, including Worldshare Management Services integrated library system and discovery tool, webservers, and digital repositories.

Lead and manage the collections team to steward the content and quality of library print and digital collections, including allocations and collection management, ensuring that they serve the curriculum and needs of the Salve Regina community;

Manage the yearly spending of collections budget;

Lead staff in charge of ordering, receiving, invoicing, cataloging;

Lead staff coordinating electronic resource management and access;

Develop statistical reports of use of library materials using the library's ILS (OCLC's Worldshare Management Systems);

Coordinate with staff in the installation and maintenance of library hardware and software with service providers, the Office of Information Technology, faculty, staff and students of the university;

Serve as the library webmaster, coordinating the web presence of the library with staff in redesigns, maintenance, improvement, and continuous usability testing;

Collaborate with the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian on digital initiatives and to develop and apply metadata schema for digital curation and preservation tasks."