Digital Stewardship Librarian

Kenyon; Gambier (OH); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/dental/vision

TIAA retirement

Child tuition waivers

Job summary

Kenyon College invites applications for a Digital Stewardship Librarian. This 12-month, full-time role is primarily on campus with some remote flexibility and focuses on making Kenyon's digital collections findable, usable, and preserved.

As primary administrator of Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons), you will shape preservation policies, manage ingest workflows, and lead digitization projects while teaching staff and collaborating with campus partners to advance a robust digital strategy.

Qualifications

• ALA-accredited master's degree in library science or equivalent, completed by June 2027, or a related degree plus library experience.
• Education or experience in digital collections, digitization, born-digital archives, digital preservation, metadata, or related work.

Responsibilities

• Keep digital collections safe and sustainable: ingest preparation, preservation, and storage following standards.
• Serve as primary administrator of Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons) and preservation tools; describe, ingest, publish, migrate, preserve.
• Advise on preservation systems, digitization workflows, and lifecycle management; shape policies.
• Grow tools/services to scale digital collections and define asset requirements.
• Partner with faculty on grants, research, and course‑integrated projects.
• Lead digital projects from plan to delivery; communicate goals, timelines, and deliverables.
• Teach and consult: train faculty, students, staff; help apply digital tools.
• Explore new platforms; migrate content between systems when needed.
• Connect with students and faculty; liaison to academic programs; support information and AI literacy.
• Represent Kenyon in consortia; attend conferences; track usage and share practices.

Skills

Digital collections

Digital repositories

Metadata standards

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Independence

Team collaboration

Teaching

Education

MLS / MLS-equivalent (ALA-accredited)

Tools

Digital Commons

Job description

Kenyon College is conducting a search for a qualified candidate to fill the position of Digital Stewardship Librarian. This 12 month, full time, position is primarily on campus with some remote flexibility.

Help Kenyon's digital collections last

Kenyon's digital collections, from digitized treasures to born-digital records, need someone to make sure they're findable, usable, and preserved. As our Digital Stewardship Librarian, you'll be that person: the expert who shapes how we describe, protect, and share our collections, and who helps the campus community get the most from them.

You'll join the Special Collections and Archives Department, report to the Director, and work with library colleagues and partners across the college. If you're a recent graduate with a degree in digital librarianship or something similar, this is a great place to make your mark.

What you'll do

Keep our digital collections safe and sustainable

• Prepare digitized and born-digital materials for ingest, stabilization, and storage, following best practices and archival standards
• Serve as the primary administrator of Kenyon's repository platform, Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons), and related preservation tools, building the processes to describe, ingest, publish, manage, migrate, and preserve our digital objects
• Be the go-to expert on preservation systems, digitization workflows, and lifecycle management, and advise on the policies that guide them

Shape our digital strategy and bring projects to life

• Grow and manage the tools and services that keep our digital collections scalable, and define requirements for the digital assets we create or acquire
• Partner with faculty and campus stakeholders on grants, research, and course-integrated projects
• Lead digital projects from plan to delivery, translating between technical and non-technical audiences so everyone knows the goals, timelines, and deliverables
• Teach and consult: train faculty, students, and staff, and help them put digital tools to work
• Explore new preservation and institutional repository platforms with your colleagues, and migrate content between systems when the time comes

Connect with students and faculty

• Serve as liaison to academic programs, potentially in data, computing, and math connected disciplines
• Teach in courses, hold research consultations, and develop discipline-specific resources
• Work with faculty and students on information, digital, and AI literacy

Grow with the profession

• Represent Kenyon in the OhioLINK and The Five Colleges of Ohio consortia
• Attend conferences, workshops, and seminars to keep learning
• Track usage of digital resources, share best practices with colleagues, and recommend purchases to library leadership

What you bring

Required

• An ALA-accredited master's degree in library science or equivalent, completed by June 2027, or a related degree plus library experience
• Education or experience in digital collections, digitization, born-digital archives, digital preservation, metadata, or related work in a library, archive, museum, cultural heritage organization, or similar setting

We'll be especially excited about

• Hands-on experience with digital collections or repositories, especially using Digital Commons
• Knowledge of current metadata schemes and standards
• Strong communication and organizational skills, including clear documentation processes
• Familiarity with trends in digital libraries, digitization standards, preservation, and rights management
• Comfort working independently and as part of a team
• A knack for learning new technologies quickly and teaching them to others, whatever their technical background

About Kenyon

Kenyon College is a nationally prominent, private liberal arts college where academic excellence goes hand in hand with a strong sense of community and close relationships among students and professors.

Compensation and Benefits

$58,000–$64,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

• Salaries at Kenyon are competitive and commensurate with experience.
• Children of employees are eligible for 100% tuition waivers at Kenyon, and through the Great Lakes Colleges Association, children of employees are eligible for 90% tuition waivers at twenty-three other of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges.
• We also offer health, dental and vision insurance, TIAA retirement, and many other benefits, including provisions for a spouse, families, and domestic partners.

Kenyon is a unique place to live and work. To discover why it should be your next home, click here.

Kenyon College is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcomeapplications from all qualified individuals. It is the College's policy to evaluate qualified applicantswithout regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression,sexual orientation, physical and/or mental disability, age, religion, medical condition, veteran status,marital status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy or state, local, or federal law.Kenyon College has a strong commitment to an inclusiveenvironment thatwelcomes all voices and perspectives.