Position overview
Position title: Assistant or Associate Librarian, Career Status or Potential Career Status
Salary range: The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point at appointment. A reasonable estimate for this position is $68,885-$76,631.
Percent time: 100%
Anticipated start: As soon as July 1, 2024. Start date is flexible.
Position duration: This is a full-time potential career appointment.
Application Window
Open date: May 8, 2024
Next review date: Friday, Jun 7, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Nov 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The University of California, Berkeley is seeking a creative, self-motivated, user-oriented, and collaborative Bancroft Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian to join the technical services team at The Bancroft Library. Under the direction of the Associate Director and Head of Bancroft Technical Services and in collaboration with archivists, curators, and other stakeholders, the Bancroft Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian processes special collections materials for digital capture/reformatting, data extraction, file management, online publication, and discovery. They are involved in the creation and maintenance of metadata for digitized and born-digital special collection resources and contribute to department-level planning and development of metadata best practice guidelines, workflows, policies, and procedures in alignment with Library-wide frameworks and practices. They manage multiple projects in collaboration with partners within and outside of the library, share their work broadly, participate in library and UC-wide activities and working groups, and train and supervise student assistants.
Responsibilities
- Processing special collections in a range of formats and of varying sizes for digital capture/reformatting, data extraction, file management, online publication, and discovery.
- Creation and maintenance of descriptive, administrative, structural, and preservation metadata for digital special collection resources.
- Contributing to department-level planning and development of internal best practice guidelines, workflows, policies, and procedures.
- Project management of multiple digital projects in collaboration with partners within and outside of the library.
- Keeping abreast of digital, born digital, data, archival, and special collection standards and practices.
- Participation in regular departmental activities and relevant UC-wide activities.
- Training and supervising student assistants.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application): Advanced degree or enrolled in an advanced degree program.
Additional qualifications (required at time of start): Advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree from an ALA accredited institution or equivalent degree.
- One year of experience in digital special collection initiatives, including digitization, born digital archives, metadata creation, project management, and/or processing of special collections.
- Training and/or work experience with project management.
- Knowledge of ArchivesSpace, bibliographic catalogs, and other collection information and digital asset management platforms.
- Familiarity with digitization, metadata, archival, and special collection standards and guidelines.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Demonstrated analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
Application Requirements
- Document requirements: Curriculum Vitae, Cover Letter, Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- Reference requirements: 3 required (contact information only).
- Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04058
- Help contact: richard.brown@berkeley.edu
Job location: Berkeley, CA
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