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Friday, August 15, 2014

[LIBJOBS] Job posting: Digital Scholarship Librarian - Claremont Colleges Library (CA)

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Digital Scholarship Librarian - Claremont Colleges Library (CA)


Come to sunny Southern California and support digital scholarship!


The Claremont Colleges Library  seeks a Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) dedicated to promoting the vital role of scholarly communication in the liberal arts context. We provide innovative, engaging, and responsive services to support digital scholarly communications. The library collects, builds, and connects the resources that the faculty and students need to advance teaching, learning, and research at the Claremont Colleges.


The Claremont Colleges, are a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions, located just east of Los Angeles in the "City of trees and PhDs," Claremont, California.


Under the broad direction of the Head of Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing, the DSL will manage the operations of our institutional repository, Scholarship@Claremont. The DSL will collaborate with other librarians and staff to ensure that advocacy for and support of digital scholarly communication is central to the library's profile. The DSL will develop educational and programmatic activities with consortial partners, and assess the scholarly communication efforts and needs of the Claremont Colleges. This librarian will provide guidance and support to faculty and students on copyright and intellectual property rights management issues. The DSL will represent the library in rapidly developing pedagogical, digital humanities, and other intercollegiate initiatives within the consortium.


Responsibilities:

  • Primary contact for Scholarship@Claremont, to ensure the rapid development and sustainability of this digital publishing platform

  • Supports faculty and students by providing guidance, advice, and resources on copyright issues and intellectual property rights management

  • Supports new knowledge creation including digital humanities scholarship

  • Documents, communicates, markets and provides outreach for the services and resources of the library's scholarly communications and digital publishing efforts


Qualifications:

  • Three years' experience working with digital scholarship and publishing in an academic library or other research environment

  • Experience with web-based publishing, presentation tools, and various media types

  • High energy, passion, positive attitude, ambition, initiative, self-direction

  • Deep understanding of the research process and knowledge of the ways that new technologies are affecting the production of scholarship.

  • Demonstrated ability to share ideas and concepts effectively across diverse interdisciplinary constituents

  • Close familiarity with current and emerging issues in open education, open textbooks, open access, copyright, and intellectual property

  • Ability to work cooperatively with librarians, faculty, staff, and students in a demanding and rapidly changing information landscape


For Further Information:

To view the complete job description and to submit an application, please visit the Claremont University Consortium Jobs post https://jobs.cuc.claremont.edu/postings/504



Allegra Swift, MLIS
Head of Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing
Claremont Colleges Library  
Claremont University Consortium
909.607.0893 | scholarship.claremont.edu

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