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Friday, June 7, 2013

F/T - Digital Content Librarian, University of Bridgeport (CT)

Digital Content Librarian, University of Bridgeport – CT



University of Bridgeport in Connecticut is seeking a Digital Content Librarian who will support initiatives to organize, disseminate, and archive electronic content for the University across enterprise platforms

Reporting to the University Librarian, the Digital Content Librarian supports initiatives to organize, disseminate, and archive electronic content for the University across enterprise platforms. These include: the Ex Libris suite of Primo, Metalib, SFX, and Voyager as the Integrated Library System; the dspace Institutional Repository; and other online resources. The Digital Content Librarian ensures long-term and streamlined access to digitized content, develops and implements appropriate metadata strategies to enhance discovery and organization of resources, facilitates technology configuration and content addition for the digital repository, and is responsible for researching emerging developments and making recommendations during planning discussions



Responsibilities include creating and maintaining policies and procedures and promoting collections to the University community. All librarians serve on teams and as a subject liaison to one or more programs with responsibility for collection development, library instruction, and reference. Librarians also contribute to the leadership of the Library and University through participation in committees.



Qualifications:



Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science Ability to learn new technologies quickly

Experience with creating and maintaining a Web page

Strong collaborative orientation, with excellent interpersonal and team skills



Preference will be given to candidates with some or all of the following: demonstrated experience working with content management systems, learning management systems, an institutional repository, digital technologies, appropriate metadata schema/markup standards, library applications such as link resolvers and discovery systems, web development interfaces, common Web scripting resources such as Java script, library systems, or teaching information literacy.



Review of internal applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Please send letter of application and resume to:



Department of Human Resources

Digital Content Librarian

University of Bridgeport

Wahlstrom Library, 7th Floor

126 Park Avenue

Bridgeport, CT 06604

Fax: (203) 576-4601

employment@bridgeport.edu



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