CTR FOR ADV RESEARCH - Digital Librarian

Job Classification

  

Position summary

Responsible for the development, maintenance, and promotion of the Adventist Digital Library.  Also responsible for the ongoing activities of the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index

Qualifications summary

ALA accredited Master’s degree in Library/Information Science or foreign equivalent required.  Experience in digital librarianship strongly preferred. 


Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Duties and responsibilities

1. Provide day-to-day direction to the work of the Adventist Digital Library (ADL).  This includes short term and longer range planning, budget planning and tracking, supervision of staff, both regular and student assistants.


2. Cultivate a collegial working relationship between ADL leadership and staff.


3. Involved in strategic planning for ADL.  This is done in consultation with the administration of the Center for Adventist Research, the ADL Board, and the SDA Periodical Index Advisory Committee in their advisory capacity.


4. Attend and represent ADL at the ADL Board meeting, SDA Periodical Index Advisory Committee, and other committees.  Chairs several more internal ADL-focused committees and sub-committees.


5. Responsible for planning and providing marketing and public relations for ADL.  This includes social media, advertising in print and online sources, and to selected groups that may have interest in the service provided by ADL.


6. Ensures ADL website and home page are kept up to date, and new ADL content is promoted on the website and via social media.


7. Supervises and ensures the secure backup and longevity of ADL data.  This is in coordination with the ADL service providers and technical staff.


8. Liaison with its partners and contributors assisting them in the creation and submission of resources to ADL.  Some travel may be required.


9. Supervises the ongoing selection, preparation, digitization, post-scanning processing, and ingestion into ADL of resources taken either from the Center for Adventist Research or from contributors.  This is done in coordination with the ADL Digitization Manager, CAR administration, and/or liaisons at partner and contributing entities.  Part of this is ensuring against duplication of effort.


10. Responsible for all metadata that appears on ADL.


11. Supervises the ongoing citation creation for the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI).  This involves overseeing the work of two or more student assistants who do the actual data entry of descriptive cataloging metadata.  This includes ensuring the student staff meet established indexing quotas, index deadlines, and quality standards set forth in the Procedures and Style Manual.


12. Supervise the proofreading and other maintenance of new and existing SDAPI citations.


13. Responsible for creation of appropriate analytic subject headings, following Library of Congress style, for selected scholarly journals indexed in SDAPI.


14. Supervise the downloading and linking of current periodical issues available in digital format to be ingested into the Adventist Digital Library to allow full text searching, and coordinates the scanning of articles included in the Index but not available from the publisher in a digital format.  This and other periodical digital objects (files) to be ingested into the Adventist Digital Library to allow full text searching.


15. Maintain and enter author and subject names authority according to rules established by the Library of Congress and ADL.  Coordinate with the James White Library head cataloger to provide authoritative data to create new name authority records in the Library of Congress as needed.


16. From time to time, supervise the creation of index citations for retrospective periodical issues as requested by the SDAPI Advisory Committee.


17. Performs other duties as assigned formally or informally, orally or in writing.

Supervisory responsibilities

• Supervise two or more highly competent staff as well as several student assistants all working in support roles.

Qualifications

• ALA accredited Master’s degree in Library/Information Science or foreign equivalent required.  A second subject-oriented master degree is preferred.  Experience in digital librarianship strongly preferred.  Training and experience in indexing highly desired, but not required.


• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience; with 5 to 10 years’ or more experience preferred.


• Long term vibrant relationship with the Seventh-day Adventist Church with a strong understanding of church structure, institutions, and familiarity with Adventist history, names of prominent Adventists, organizations, and events strongly preferred.


• Demonstrable passion for the preservation of history and historical items.


• Demonstrated focused attention to detail, including creation of appropriate metadata, spelling, and proofreading.


• Demonstrated multi-tasking and problem-solving skills in a time sensitive manner.


• Excellent organizational skills.


• Excellent speaking and written ability in English.  Ability to quickly analyze in English is required. 


• A working knowledge of Spanish, German or Portuguese is a very strong asset.

Must be a Seventh-day Adventist in good and regular standing.

Technical competencies

• Comfortable using one or more library cataloging applications.


• Working knowledge of the Library of Congress Subject Heading schema, and how to apply them.


• Working knowledge of the library MARC format and familiarity and general familiarity with library metadata standards such as MARC, MODS, and Dublin Core.


• Proficiency with Microsoft Office is required.  Strong computer skills, including the installation and use of software, hardware, use of networked file systems and cloud storage services, while not required is preferred.


• Demonstrated experience with the transfer of content from analog to digital, including some or all of the following original formats: paper, audio, video, motion picture, and photographic strongly preferred.

Interpersonal interactions

• Represents the Adventist Digital Library, including the SDA Periodical Index, through various organizational and individual contacts.  Must be comfortable interacting with ADL partners and contributors, university-wide faculty, staff, administration, and students, and the general public with interest in these digital services.  Also, there is interaction with local administrators, staff, and student assistants.  Contacts will be in written and oral format, with presentations to groups supporting and potentially interested in Adventist history and in digital services.


• Demonstrated ability to focus and lead teams or groups to the accomplishment of a mutual goal.  Project management skills a plus.

Physical demands

• Able to operate a computer for extensive amounts of time.


• Able to lift 40 pound boxes of materials.


• Helpful to be able to go up and down the Center’s rows of book shelves to find resources to digitize.

Work environment

Typical office environment combined with a digitization production facility.  Noise and dirt is low.