Apply for the Vacancy for Digital Services Manager at Stanford University. The category of the position is  Libraries.

Job Purpose

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is seeking a client-focused/user-centered Digital Services Manager whose principal role will be to ensure the effective coordination, communication, and design of services, products, and activities associated with the Digital First/Virtual Library Initiative. Additionally, this initiative aims to deliver large-scale digitization of the Library & Archives’ collections for scholarly and community uses.

Duties

• Ensures the timely and successful planning, execution, and completion of digital projects in a highly collaborative environment that involves decision-makers across many levels of the organization (i.e., senior management, curators, librarians, archivists, conservators, and technologists);
• Additionally, accountable for coordinating work plan development, collection preparation, content conversion, digital ingest, content delivery and reuse, and website functionality testing for assigned projects;
• Also, applies digitization guidelines and procedures to complex and unique collections to the predicted use of the materials in conjunction with curators and domain experts;
• Furthermore, ensures high-throughput steady-state operations for digital conversion work streams;
• Provides cost estimates to support digitization projects, grant proposals, and solicitations of donations;
• Also, collects and maintains statistics, reports, and other metrics to assess and improve functions;
• Leads, hires, coaches, trains, and evaluates the performance of staff and students; assigns and prioritizes workloads, sets deadlines, and reviews work for quality and timeliness.
• Furthermore, coordinates with external vendors on digitization projects and manage the high-resolution scan-on-demand services for specialized formats;
• Assess handling requirements of archival objects for digitization in conjunction with conservation staff;
• Furthermore, engage in scholarships including talks, papers, and other activities on project outcomes to internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

Advanced Degree in Library Science or a relevant academic discipline with demonstrated understanding of academic libraries, with two or more years of relevant experience with digital services, products, and/or activities in a library or archival setting or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience assessing cultural heritage materials for digitization and developing work plans and production cost estimates;
• Additionally, demonstrated experience coordinating multiple, simultaneous projects involving multiple institutions and teams that may be geographically distributed;
• Furthermore, demonstrated knowledge of technical, legal, and information policy issues related to digital conversion and publication;
• Also, working experience with structured data, digital object standards, and metadata formats, standards, and frameworks (i.e., METS, MODS, ALTO, MARC, IIIF, Dublin Core, etc.);
• Furthermore, familiarity with the range of digital conversion technologies and tools, especially digital imaging and/or audiovisual content reformatting technologies, processes, and professional standards (e.g., FADGI, Metamorfoze, LIMB Capture, Adobe Creative Cloud, Capture One, etc.);
• Likewise, familiarity with project management tools and digitization workflow management systems (i.e., Trello, Smartsheet, LIMB Maestro, LIMB Processing, Goobi, Opus Workflow, DocWorks, etc.);
• Additionally, working knowledge of United States copyright law and fair use

Physical Requirements

• Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
• Also, frequently sitting.
• Furthermore, work with books and in places that may be dusty.
• Frequently twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.
• Additionally, occasionally stand/walk, reach/work above shoulders, writing by hand, kneel/crawl, climb (ladders, scaffolds, or other).
• Moreover, just be able to push and maneuver a fully-loaded cart weighing up to 650 pounds that requires an initial push force up to 50 pounds. Ability to lift 40-pound boxes or bundles.

About

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic achievements, wealth, location within Silicon Valley, and selectivity; it is ranked as one of the world’s top universities.

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