[Asis-l] Position Posting: Repository Librarian at Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

[Barrie Hayes]

Please pardon any duplication:

http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/repository.html

*Position*: Repository Librarian
* Available*: January 1, 2010

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is seeking a motivated, 
self-starter with excellent task management and communication skills to 
serve as Repository Librarian for the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR), 
the University's institutional and digital preservation repository. The 
CDR manages and ensures continuing access to digital content of enduring 
value produced or maintained at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill. It is a University-wide service in support of persistent 
access to Carolina's digital scholarship and heritage. The CDR provides 
a set of services to help Carolina community members manage and secure 
their digital content, and make this content discoverable online to 
designated communities, as well as the mechanisms for digital content to 
be collected, organized, stored, searched, linked, read, distributed, 
indexed, and preserved.

Reporting to the Head of the Library Systems Office, the Repository 
Librarian will be responsible for supporting UNC faculty, students, and 
staff with information, training, and assistance in depositing digital 
materials into the CDR, and for working with the CDR Steering Committee 
and with policy, programming, and other staff to define and implement 
repository policies, workflows, and capabilities. The Repository 
Librarian will have lead responsibility for ensuring that CDR programs 
align with the needs of the UNC community and that UNC faculty, 
students, and staff are aware of and know how to utilize CDR services.

The Repository Librarian will: oversee and coordinate CDR projects, 
prepare and maintain project plans and schedules; communicate with 
depositors, steering committee members, and other University 
constituents; maintain CDR website and online documentation; work with 
librarians, faculty, and the heads of the various academic, 
administrative, and research units on campus to identify materials that 
would be appropriate to include in the CDR, explain expectations, 
policies, and workflows, negotiate deposit agreements, provide services, 
training, and support and investigate and resolve user issues; manage 
the ingest of materials, including mapping user requirements and 
metadata to repository functionality and standards; contribute to the 
planning and development of CDR strategy, functionality, and capacity by 
gathering and analyzing depositor and user input and feedback; 
participate in testing of CDR functionality and planning of needed 
changes; ensure that CDR programs are aligned and integrated with other 
UNC systems as appropriate; participate in the development and 
implementation of policies and workflows that govern the deposit and 
management of content in the CDR, including those regarding appropriate 
content, metadata standards, access conditions, intellectual property 
rights and copyright, commitments to depositors, and types and levels of 
service; provide orientation and training on CDR programs, policies, and 
workflows to Library staff and others who have faculty liaison and 
support responsibilities; manage grant and other externally funded 
support for the CDR on an as-needed basis; promote the CDR, including 
registering with appropriate harvesting, indexing, and other service 
providers; represent the University of North Carolina and its libraries 
at appropriate conferences and meetings relative to institutional 
repositories specifically and to the larger issues related to scholarly 
communication.

*Qualifications*

*Required*:
ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent graduate degree in archival studies or 
related field. Coursework or experience resulting in knowledge of 
principles and practices governing the development and management of 
institutional repositories, especially those dealing with long-term 
preservation of digital materials. Demonstrated project management 
experience. Knowledge of issues pertaining to intellectual property and 
copyright and with deposit agreements and scholarly communication issues 
surrounding institutional repositories. Demonstrated ability to work 
collaboratively with faculty, programmers, and library or curatorial 
staff. Excellent communication skills.

*Preferred*:
Three or more years of full-time work experience in a library, archives, 
museum, or other cultural repository with significant experience and 
accomplishments involving the acquisition and management of born-digital 
or digitized library, archival, or museum materials. Experience working 
with faculty members in a research environment to collect and preserve 
their professional papers and data. Experience writing and managing 
grants. Active professional involvement, including publication and 
presentations, in issues concerning digital preservation or 
institutional repository development and management. Supervisory 
experience.

*The University and The Libraries*
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <http://www.unc.edu/> is 
the country's oldest state university. UNC-Chapel Hill has an enrollment 
of approximately 27,000 students, employs more than 3,100 faculty, 
offers 77 doctoral degrees as well as professional degrees in dentistry, 
medicine, pharmacy and law, and the Library collections include over 6 
million volumes. The Library is a member of the Association of Research 
Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and SOLINET. Together with 
the Health Sciences and Law libraries at Chapel Hill plus the libraries 
at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and North 
Carolina State University, the members of the Triangle Research 
Libraries Network (TRLN) provide services and collections to their 
students, faculty, and staff in support of the education, research, and 
service missions of the universities.

*The Region*
The Triangle region <http://triangle.citysearch.com/> is one of the most 
desirable places to live and work in North America and offers its 
residents a wide array of recreational, cultural, and intellectual 
activities. The mountains or the seashore are less than half day's drive 
from Chapel Hill.

The University of North Carolina is an equal opportunity employer and is 
strongly committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.

*Salary and Benefits*
This is a twelve-month academic librarian appointment; salary is 
commensurate with qualifications and experience. Standard state benefits 
of annual leave, sick leave, and State or optional retirement plan. At 
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, librarians enjoy the 
benefit of academic status and are members of the faculty council.

*Deadline for Application*
Review of applications will begin on *December 28, 2009*. Applications 
will be accepted until the position is filled, but preference will be 
given to applications received by the begin review date.

*To Apply*:
Please visit http://jobs.unc.edu/1002172 and complete the online 
application. Be sure to include a cover letter, a resume and the name, 
mailing address, email address, and telephone number of three 
professional references.

/An Equal Opportunity Employer/


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Barrie Hayes, MSLS

Bioinformatics Librarian and Collaboration Center Manager
UNC Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Practice
School of Information and Library Science

CB 7585, 335 S. Columbia Street
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
919-962-0264
barrie_hayes at unc.edu

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