Association of Research Libraries is hiring: Digital Lifecycle Program Librarian

Digital Lifecycle Program Librarian – Library

University of California Berkeley Job Location: California Date Created: 02/18/2025

Position overview

Position title: Associate Librarian-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 $98,667-$125,402.

Anticipated start: As early as March 2025. Start date is flexible.

Position duration: This is a full-time potential career appointment.

Application Window

Open date: February 9, 2025

Next review date: Sunday, Mar 9, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Final date: Sunday, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and user-oriented colleague as the Digital Lifecycle Program (DLP) Librarian. This role guides, manages, and coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, and outreach of digital initiatives, including digital collections, platforms, preservation, and projects. The DLP Librarian develops strategies, policies, procedures, best practices, and system requirements to support digitized and born-digital collections, including long-term digital preservation, access, discovery, reuse, and management.

The DLP Librarian, as part of the Library IT Division, is a strong leader and partner for digital initiatives, coordinating and cultivating relationships with all libraries, divisions, and units within the UC Berkeley Library to support digital initiatives. The DLP Librarian will be a skilled project manager and effective communicator. The role is highly collaborative, working with staff throughout the Library to plan and manage projects.

The Environment

The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned teaching and research facility at one of the nation’s premier public universities. A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 33,000 undergraduate students, over 12,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 13 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of the Library IT Division and under their leadership, this position works closely with the Library IT department heads in Digitization Services, Applications Development Services, DevOps, Systems and Discovery, and project managers. This position oversees, and is responsible for, the entire lifecycle of digital and digitized collections — from project selection and digitization to digital publishing and preservation. Working with collection stakeholders and functional experts, this position ensures coordination of review for responsible access workflows, oversees the creation of metadata, conservation/preservation, etc.

This position will:

• Lead, enhance, assess, implement, and coordinate digital initiatives in their entire lifecycle from selection to digitization to digital preservation and everything in between including related digital services.
• Lead planning and evaluation for new digital projects and collections with relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor progress toward project milestones and coordinate with stakeholders of participating departments in the Library and the University to ensure timely progress toward completion, making necessary adjustments in keeping with the priorities of the digital lifecycle program.
• Play a lead role in developing and documenting policies and designing workflows that make digital initiatives a transparent and collaborative process.
• Coordinate and facilitate the implementation of digital collection-related workflows and processes across departments.
• Lead efforts to conduct highly complex analyses across a broad spectrum of digital collections programs, policies, and initiatives.
• Develop and implement policies and processes to describe, ingest, publish, manage, migrate, and preserve digitized and born-digital objects.
• Work closely with the Head of Digitization Services on the planning and workflows related to digitizing collections in-house and/or with vendors/external partners.
• Work closely with the Head of Library IT to improve and develop services to enhance and improve the digital projects lifecycle.
• Stay up to date on developments in digital libraries, digital pedagogy, and digital preservation.
• Seek out new opportunities for the Library with emphasis on innovation, digital developments, and new roles for academic libraries.
• Lead and/or participate in UC-wide and Library-level committees, task forces, and/or special projects.
• Serve as a public and internal face for digital initiatives by representing the Library on internal and external committees, working groups, and other professional organizations as needed.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

Advanced degree

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)

• Minimum three years of direct experience leading, managing, or coordinating digital initiatives.
• Minimum three years of direct experience with digital collection management or repository platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent international degree.
• Experience being an effective project manager and coordinator.
• Knowledge of or experience with tools and technology standards typically used in digital library environments.
• Knowledge of or experience with digital preservation standards, best practices and digital preservation repositories.
• Knowledge of or experience with digital file formats.
• Experience with web archiving and born-digital tools and processes.
• Experience with metadata standards relevant to the management of digital objects.
• Experience ensuring that digital content is accessible and usable.
• Knowledge of audio and video formats, streaming, and platforms and applications.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects involving many stakeholders simultaneously.
• Knowledge of trends, issues, and resources in digital library systems, assessment, metadata, and outreach.
• Knowledge of current and recent industry trends in digital library search, discovery, and delivery systems.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and implement effective programs, complex projects, and services.
• Experience or commitment to advancing diversity, inclusion, and belonging through digital practice, scholarship, and service.
• Experience coordinating individuals and groups in matrix reporting relationships.
• Experience working in academic libraries or GLAM institutions.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

• Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V.
• Statement on Contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

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UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The excellence of the institution requires an environment in which the diverse community of faculty, students, and staff are welcome and included.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Please refer to the University policies for more information.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements.

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