Digital Services Librarian

 

Columbia College Chicago is an undergraduate and graduate college in downtown Chicago whose principal commitment is to provide comprehensive educational opportunities in the arts, communications and public information, within a context of enlightened liberal education. Columbia is the fifth largest private educational institution in Illinois, with a Fall 2005 enrollment of more than 10,000 students, which includes approximately 640 graduate students. It is the country's largest and most diverse private arts and communications college. Most of Columbia's 1,250 faculty members work in the professions about which they teach. Class sizes are small and instruction is hands-on. 

 

Columbia College Chicago Library seeks an energetic, creative and outgoing individual to coordinate, expand, evaluate and promote the College’s digital collections.  The Digital Services Librarian will work with colleagues within the Library specifically and with those in the Columbia community to further digitization efforts college-wide.

 

Responsibilities include: providing leadership to and coordination of, librarians, faculty, staff, and other partners participating in the creation of digital collections of text, images, audio, and video; providing expertise on digitization and adherence to metadata standards, creation and implementation of training materials, providing training for digital management systems and oversight of usability studies related to digital projects.

 

Requirements: ALA-accredited MLS with a minimum of two years professional experience in a digital library environment. Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with digital objects management systems (CONTENTdm preferred), metadata standards, controlled vocabularies and digital archiving practices.  Excellent communication and project management skills are required as is the ability to work in a culturally rich and diverse college environment.

 

Working knowledge of web technologies and indexing and harvesting standards is desired. 

 

Please submit a resume and cover letter to [log in to unmask]  or

Columbia College Chicago
The Office of Recruitment and Development
Digital Services Librarian Search
33 East Congress, Suite 532
Chicago, IL 60605

Columbia College Chicago encourages qualified female, GLBT, disabled and minority classified individuals to apply for all positions.

 

For more details, see our full position description at http://www.colum.edu.