Tisch Library seeks a Digital Humanities Librarian to support researchers and students engaged in teaching and research across the digital scholarship lifecycle. Through consultations, instruction, outreach, and collaborative initiatives, this position supports digital research practices and data literacies in a variety of disciplines, largely concentrated in the humanities and social sciences, which engage with DH methods, data, and digital sources in the form of unstructured text, data, images, and media.

The Digital Humanities Librarian will have a liaison relationship with the Digital Humanities minor and M.A. program through instruction and programming, as well as proactive relationship building and partnerships with faculty, staff, and students.

As a member of the Digital Scholarship Department, the Digital Humanities Librarian will collaborate with colleagues to support digital humanities project management and design, digital pedagogy and student-centered learning, use of digital methods and tools, and critical and ethical approaches to digital scholarship.

Responsibilities:

• Provide instruction and consultation for students, faculty, and researchers on digital humanities tools and practices as well as assignment design, digital literacy skills, and computational research practices in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
• Implement and support the use of ethical and responsible AI and machine learning in teaching and projects, including through small language models and minimal computing approaches
• Demonstrate affordances and potential of digital humanities through teaching, research, and projects, including creating datasets from collections, designing pedagogical materials, or developing digital projects
• Contribute to cross-departmental efforts such as the Software Carpentries program, research data for humanists workshops, and developing learning resources
• Maintain awareness of the evolving landscape of digital humanities, artificial intelligence, and open scholarship
• Serve as liaison to assigned programs or departments, foster relationships and community, support research and learning needs and develop curricular and co-curricular engagement opportunities; includes collection development for resources in digital humanities

Basic Requirements:

Knowledge and experience typically acquired by: 

• A Master's degree from an ALA-accredited program, or relevant advanced degree in humanities or social sciences with significant digital scholarship project experience
• At least 3-5 years of professional experience in a relevant setting
• Direct experience working on a digital humanities project team, contributing to scholarly digital projects, and using digital humanities methods and applications
• Experience delivering instruction in digital scholarship methods, tools, and approaches, and experience developing pedagogical content
• Experience with Python, R, or other programming languages to support interdisciplinary research and projects using unstructured data, images, and other media
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with colleagues across departments
• Highly effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• A record of professional engagement and contribution in relevant areas

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and developing collaborative digital humanities projects
• Work with research data and understanding of data formats, qualitative research methods, and data curation principles
• Working knowledge of a non-English language to enable work with multi-lingual texts or scripts

Special Work Schedule Requirements:

This is hybrid position expected to be on campus at least 3 days per week, with extra on campus presence required for classes and events. 

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