The Resource Management and Repository Services Department provides support for the creation, management, and preservation of scholarship. The department cultivates teamwork and collaborative relationships within and outside Tisch Library to provide resources and services for Tufts University.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Initiatives, the Senior Library Assistant for digital initiatives is part of a collaborative team that provides digital library services to Tufts University. This position is responsible for managing Tisch Library’s digitization program, supervising the student digitization assistant position, and performing quality control and workflow procedures for digitized materials. The Library Assistant is responsible for creating and maintaining digital items, collections, and metadata added to the institutional repository. This position will also work on special projects and ongoing initiatives to incorporate automation and AI tools into the department’s workflows.

Essential Functions:

• Manage Tisch Library’s digitization program by training and supervising students creating preservation-quality digital surrogates of collection materials
• Assess quality control on digitized materials, digitize select collections materials requiring special attention, and provide digitization guidance through consultations
• Assist in creating, maintaining, and enhancing metadata for digital resources cataloged for the Tufts institutional repository
• Provide original descriptive metadata for Tufts theses and dissertations
• Assist with special projects as assigned

• Supervise Student Digitization Assistant

Basic Requirements:

• Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a Bachelor’s degree
• At least 2 years’ experience working in a library, archives, museum, or cultural heritage organization setting
• Digitization experience; familiarity with basic principles of photography, editing software like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, and interest in learning more
• Knowledge of basic cataloging standards and concepts with ability to apply them to specific materials

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using specific metadata standards, such as MARC, MODS, Dublin Core, and/or markup languages, such as HTML, XML, Markdown
• Experience with Alma integrated library management system
• Experience with command line tools, scripting languages like Python, and other related technical skills
• Knowledge of a foreign language
• Supervisory experience   
  

Special Work Schedule Requirements:

This is a hybrid role that is expected to be on campus at least 2-3 days each week.

About Tufts University

This is Tufts. Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway). Our employees light the way. Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world. At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you. Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most. We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging. Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world. An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen. Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at oeo@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at https://oeo.tufts.edu/

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