[Michlib-l] Job Posting - Visiting Digital Assets Librarian, Oakland University

[Amanda Nichols Hess]

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**Please excuse cross-postings.**
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Oakland University’s Kresge Library seeks a versatile, creative, and
service-oriented librarian to join us in enhancing the library’s growing
digital collections within a collaborative, teaching library environment.
The Visiting Digital Assets Librarian contributes to the acquisition,
production, and management of the library’s digital assets and e-resources,
and provides metadata and technical expertise to advance the library’s
strategic goals in support of the university’s teaching, learning, and
research endeavors.

Candidates will apply best practices to digitization and preservation
processes. Candidates will share knowledge of current models, practices,
and tools used by academic libraries for the access and discoverability of
e-resources. Candidates will demonstrate ability to prioritize, plan,
coordinate, and implement projects. Candidates must demonstrate experience
with or a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities:

● Participate in the activities related to acquiring, organizing, and
providing access to the library’s digital resources.

● Develop and implement appropriate metadata strategies to enhance
discovery, management, and presentation of digital collections.

● Coordinate the library’s digital projects and collaborate with the Web
Services Librarian and the Library Technologies Group to foster innovation
in the delivery and preservation of digital resources.

● Program and manage integrations between parallel online information
repositories

● Provide leadership and work related to the continued development of the
library’s institutional repository.

● Monitor, anticipate, and implement trends in metadata standards and
discovery in an evolving digital environment.

● Contribute actively to library-wide planning and assessment efforts.

● May engage in course-integrated information literacy instruction,
reference services, and collection development as needed.



*FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE FULL POSITION POSTING
AT https://jobs.oakland.edu/postings/14788
<https://jobs.oakland.edu/postings/14788>*



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Amanda Nichols Hess, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Oakland University Libraries
248.370.2487 | nichols at oakland.edu
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