[Eril-l] New Position: Digital Collections Coordinator at Colorado State Library

[Babi Hammond]

Cool job opening in Colorado; apologies for cross-posting.

BH

From: Regan Harper <harper_r at cde.state.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Greetings all-

The Digital Collections Coordinator is a newly created, full time position
within the Colorado State Library.  The position is open to experienced
information professionals with strong project management and facilitation
skills.  Candidates should be interested in exploring and supporting
expanded access to digital collections from Colorado libraries, archives,
government agencies and cultural heritage organizations.

The ideal candidate should possess the following skills:

* Proven proficiency in project management, communication and outreach
activities, event planning and grant writing.

* Expertise working in a library, archive, cultural heritage organization,
or affiliated educational, non-profit, or professional organization.

* Experience coordinating the activities of small teams towards identified
goals.

* Experience with digital projects and knowledge of trends and best
practices in the field of information management.

* Experience working with diverse communities and building effective
relationships within those communities.

* Knowledge of current technologies and metadata standards and practices in
libraries and archives.

* Presentation and training skills.

* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and develop feasible,
realistic solutions to problems and conundrums.

The position will be responsible for maintaining and growing Colorado’s
collective digital presence through cooperative digitization and
preservation initiatives.  This would include but not be limited to
coordinating and collaborating with digitization partners and vendors  for
the creation of digital content; liaising with key stakeholders within the
library, archive and cultural heritage communities to develop and foster
partnerships; providing training and consulting to institutions and
organizations to help them gain awareness  of issues related to digital
collections, copyright, preservation and metadata standards.

For more information regarding this position, please see the full
description on Library Jobline:
http://www.libraryjobline.org/job/4749/Digital-Collections-Coordinator?ref=page1
.

Regan Harper
Director of Networking and Resource Sharing
Colorado State Library
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.eril-l.org/pipermail/eril-l-eril-l.org/attachments/20150630/4cc4a5e3/attachment.html>