University of Rochester - Digital Humanities Librarian
Location: USA - NY - Rochester
University of Rochester
TITLE: Library Professional II (exempt)
FUNCTIONAL JOB TITLE: Digital Humanities Librarian
SUPERVISOR: Assistant Dean of Information Technology, Research & Digital Scholarship
TIME STATUS: Full-time
POSITION SUMMARY:
The River Campus Libraries (RCL) seeks an innovative and creative librarian to join the Digital Humanities (DH) Center team, a highly collaborative and innovative unit that supports faculty research and teaching across the humanities disciplines in the University of Rochester’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a broad understanding of contemporary digital humanities scholarship, and have experience with one or more DH methodologies, i.e. text analysis, mining, and/or scholarly encoding, data visualization, social network analysis, 3-D game development, or digital archives. They will also have experience teaching and/or collaborating with faculty members in the design of digital humanities courses and curriculum, creating and managing digital projects, and engaging in faculty research that extends scholarship into the digital space. Reporting to the Assistant Dean for IT, Research, and Digital Scholarship, the DH librarian will have a history of creating strong collaborative relationships with students, graduate students, IT stakeholders, library staff members, and faculty. Working in the Digital Humanities Center requires the ability to manage working on both fast paced, highly experimental, and short-lived projects, as well as long-term, large scale projects that span several years. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, good problem solving skills, and the ability to manage ambiguity are essential.
VIEW FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AT: http://www.library.rochester.edu/digitalhumantieslibrarian
Required Qualifications & Competencies
Specific to the position:
- MLS from an ALA accredited library school
- Proven track record of collaboration in faculty research and teaching at the undergraduate level
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with technologies and standards common to DH methodologies, including TEI, xml, xslt, html, and data modeling for the humanities.
- LAMP based website frameworks (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and engage stakeholders
- Ability to conceptualize, articulate and identify meaningful success measures for strategic and near-term goals
- Outstanding verbal and written skills
- Self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment with a high degree of accountability
- Masters degree in humanities field in addition to an MLS from an ALA accredited library school
- 3 years experience working in either an academic library setting or on a digital humanities project
- Experience with website design/ development, large project planning, and/or instructional design
- Strong commitment to building and nurturing positive relationships among users and colleagues with a proven ability to work in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated assertiveness and diplomacy
- Proven willingness to pursue additional educational and skills development to complement the learning environment reflected in a progressive academic setting
- Demonstrated organizational skills in a broad range of situations
- Collegial and contributory member of the team and of the RCL as a whole
- User focused and committed to service excellence with all users
- Solution focused, identifying synergies and opportunities to benefit users
- Professional, organized and prepared
- Generates, recommends and welcomes resourceful or creative approaches and solutions that improve productivity and patron services
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION APPLICANTS MUST APPLY ONLINE AT: http://www.rochester.edu/working/hr/jobs/
Reference ID: 186268
Application deadline is November 8, 2014. Please ALSO send letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses and phone numbers of three references to:
Kelley Kitrinos
Rush Rhees Library
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
[email protected]
The University of Rochester is an Equal Opportunity Employer: EOE Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Disabled