Digital librarians: Need a J.O.B.?
Peter Binkley wrote a while back about the crop of neat digital librarian-y jobs that'd been popping up. There've been a bunch more lately:
- Head, Library Technology (Oregon State University)
- Coordinator for Digital Library and Metadata Services (University of Colorado)
- Digital Collections Coordinator (U. of Oregon)
- Digital Projects and Catalog Management Librarian (U. of Oregon)
- Digital Initiatives Coordinator (Clemson U.)
- Digital Library Initiatives Manager (Temple U.) [Direct link could not be obtained]
- Digital Library Program Manager (UC-San Diego)
It's great to see academic libraries diving head-first into digital collections / library initiatives, and doing so with dedicated staff.
Some of these positions look like great options for folks like myself who've been bouncing around the digital libraries world for a few years now and are starting to think about taking on greater responsibility within an organization. I know you're out there, folks. Consider applying!
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Um, dude, like, you need to get one of those jobs at the U of O and scrap WA and these other positions you're looking at. ; )
I would be lying if I said I didn't look very closely at both U of O positions. I'm nostalgic about my time in Oregon, but living in Eugene might make me feel kind of claustrophobic after having lived in Seattle and out east. At the risk of sounding like a pretentious city-slicker, Eugene just feels like small potatoes compared with Seattle, or even Portland. (Nothing wrong with potatoes, of course.)
I'm sure you can relate after years in Chicagoland, though perhaps, being a boy from Fall Creek, you totally hate it and are looking forward to fleeing the densely packed city environment.
But, yeah, I see your winky and I catch your drift. :) My best option right now is looking like staying at Princeton; and that'd be great for us since I absolutely love my job. We'll see…
Not really a digital library job (but what IS the difference between Systems and Digital Libraries these days? Aren't all libraries 'digital libraries' in 2007? But anyway. Yeah, I know)…
But I can't resist another opportunity to shill for my institution. We have two jobs open right now in the Systems Dept at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD.
Web programmer position: https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=28225
Unix sysadmin position:
https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=27602
Thanks for adding those to my list, jrochkind.
And agreed — digital libraries and library systems ought to be the same thing. In practice, however, there seems to be a real (organizational and perhaps cultural) divide between the catalog / resolver / metasearch people and the repository / digitization / metadata people.
Tear down the wall, I say; we might learn something from one another.