The West Virginia University Libraries is accepting applications for a fully remote Visiting Librarian (Project Manager) position for the American Congress Digital Archives Portal (ACDAP). The ACDAP is a collaborative, non-partisan project that aggregates congressional archives from multiple institutions into a single platform. This term position is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. **
Major Responsibilities**
- Engage partner institutions on project digitization and metadata standards and perform quality control on harvested materials and metadata.
- In coordination with developers, assist partner institutions with harvest configurations.
- Work with developers to test and provide feedback on deliverables.
- Run imports of partner content.
- Create and update documentation related to digitization, metadata, and harvesting.
- Create documentation for end users to assist with navigating and searching the portal.
- Supervise metadata creation for WVU Libraries project deliverables.
- Contribute to other portal development tasks as needed.
Condition Of Work And Benefits
- 12-month term position
- 37.5 hours weekly M-F with occasional early evening work possible due to partner institution time zones
- Remote work
- Faculty rank and status
- Non-tenure track
- Health and retirement benefits
- Generous paid vacation, holiday, and sick leave
- We welcome beginning or early career librarians and will fill the position at the rank of Visiting Librarian.
- Salary is $55,000
For full consideration, please include the following with your application:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
Required Qualifications
- ALA accredited Master’s degree in library and information science or international equivalent graduate degree by date of appointment
- 1-2 years' experience
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including remote meeting facilitation
- Ability to work independently and to prioritize work
- Ability to maintain consistent and usable project documentation
- Experience with archival digitization
- Experience implementing metadata standards and best practices (Dublin Core, MODS)
- Experience with metadata mapping, transformation, and validation
- Knowledge of data harvesting
Desired Qualifications And Knowledge
- Experience with project management
- Experience with data harvesting
- Experience with XML programming languages (XSLT, XPath, XQuery)
- Experience with metadata mapping, transformation, and validation
- Experience with OpenRefine or another data transformation utility
- Knowledge of scripting language and APIs
- Interest in linked data and RDF
If you feel that you don’t meet these desired qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. Desired qualifications can sometimes miss the elements that would most strengthen our team; we value a diversity of skills.
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