Description

Position Summary

The Kinsey Institute houses one of the world's most comprehensive research collections on human sexuality and relationships, encompassing over 700,000 items spanning more than 2,000 years of human history. The Kinsey Institute's diverse holdings are a renowned global destination for scholars and include rare books, research journals, manuscripts, archives, films, videos, fine art, photography, artifacts, cultural objects, and born-digital materials. We are seeking a dedicated and innovative (Visiting) Digital Librarian or Archivist to lead and support our efforts in describing, preserving, and providing access to digitized and born-digital materials.

Reporting to the Director of the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections, the Visiting Digital Librarian will collaborate closely with the Kinsey Institute's collections team, Indiana University Libraries, IU Information Technology Services, external vendors, and other potential partners to establish strategic digital preservation plans and to develop and implement workflows for the preservation, processing, description, and access of digital assets. This role is pivotal in managing digitization workflows and digital records, ensuring their long-term preservation, and facilitating considered and thoughtful global access to these invaluable resources for scholars, students, and the public.

This is an open-rank non-tenure-track librarian faculty position (rank dependent on candidate experience: Assistant, Associate, Full Librarian). The initial appointment is for one year, and may be extended for one additional year depending on performance and the availability of funding.

This is a fully on-site position.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the long-term preservation, organization, and access of digitized and born-digital materials, in alignment with current standards and best practices.

• Lead the planning and execution of digitization initiative, prioritizing physical collections, to ensure high-quality digital conversion and integration into digital content management systems for preservation and access.

• Collaborating both internally and with potential external vendors, provide guidance to the Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections team on best practices for managing, cataloging, and preserving digital contents and records.

• Research, evaluate, and recommend digital preservation activities, and opportunities for system evaluation and enhancement, that align with the Kinsey Institute's mission and long-term strategic goals for digital preservation and access to its Library & Special Collections.

• Create documentation and implement workflows for processing digitized or born-digital collections to ensure accessibility for preservation and access purposes.

• Oversee digital repositories and related accounts.

• Participate in public service activities-including reference assistance and instructional sessions-to promote digital collections; support digital content integration related to donor contributions.

Basic Qualifications

Education:

• ALA -accredited master's degree in library or information science, or an advanced degree in a related field with training in managing digital content.

Work Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of five years of experience in special collections or academic archives, with a focus on digitization and digital asset management; experience with archival arrangement, description, and preservation.

• Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with digital preservation strategies and technologies.

Skills and Abilities:

• Legal and Ethical Knowledge: Understanding of privacy, confidentiality, copyright, and use policies related to archival materials. Must be comfortable working with materials concerning human sexuality.

• Communication Skills: Strong written and interpersonal communication skills; ability to foster collaborative working relationships.

• Organizational Skills: Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Digital Repository Experience: Hands-on experience with digital repository technologies and preservation systems in an enterprise-scale environment.

• Experience with metadata for digital assets.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency with markup languages (e.g., HTML , XML ), style sheets (e.g., CSS , XSL ), or related technologies, including content management systems.

• Archival Practices: Experience working with born-digital collections and digitization projects, with project management experience.

• Grant Writing: Proven success in securing and managing grant-funded projects.

Department Contact for Questions

Questions regarding the position or application can be directed to Liana Zhou, MLS at [email protected] .

Salary and Rank

$70,000 - $95,000, depending on experience and rank