Reporting to the Head of Digital Preservation, the Digital Preservation Librarian will work within the Digital Preservation team to provide operational support for the systems and services that ensure the integrity, accessibility, authenticity, and usability of Yale’s preserved digital collections. They will act as an expert user of our digital preservation system, consult with infrastructure administrators and software integration developers, and provide digital preservation services to stakeholders in the library, archives, and museums as needed.

Applications should be submitted by June 4th for initial review. We will hold virtual information sessions on May 13th at 3:30PM ET and May 16th at 10:00AM ET. Interested applicants are encouraged to attend. Link to the session: https://tinyurl.com/dplibrarian

Position Focus:
Provides user-centered support to content depositors to facilitate ingest of content into the digital preservation system, monitor and take any needed preservation actions, and to ensure content is appropriately accessible. Uses automation to perform data packaging and ingest on behalf of stakeholders. Utilizes APIs provided by the preservation system and related library systems to conduct large-scale analysis and manage workflow operation. Works closely with the content depositors to ensure they have the resources and training necessary to ingest, manage, and access their content.

Contributes to the management of the digital preservation system by addressing workflow issues with content depositors, resolving software and underlying technology problems with operations staff, monitoring the system and supporting technologies, and performing configuration and testing as needed. Perform assessments, analyzes needs, identifies tooling, and develops strategies to strengthen and expand service offerings in the areas of digital preservation and born-digital accessioning, processing, and access. Collaborates with fellow digital preservation team members to document policies and procedures related to our services. Monitors and tracks advancements in the field; researches, recommends, and establishes new technical strategies and standards. Conceptualizes, plans, and executes work guided by the “Sustainable Stewardship Principles for Yale Library’s Special Collections” (https://library.yale.edu/sustainable-stewardship-yale-library-special-collections).

This position will be assigned a rank of Librarian 2 to Librarian 3 based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can be found at: http://bit.ly/YULRanksPromotions. This position participates in Yale’s “FlexPlace Work Arrangements” (https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/benefits/your-work-life/work-models-yale/flexplace-work-arrangements) in a “Largely remote” capacity. No on-campus office will be assigned and working remotely will be expected. A list of Yale approved states where employees can be hired to work remotely can be found here: https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/manager-toolkit/recruit-and-hire-staff/approved-states-hiring-candidates

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