Digital Stewardship Librarian

Code4lib; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote flexibility

Professional development

Health insurance

Job summary

Kenyon College is seeking a Digital Stewardship Librarian to manage digital collections, ensuring they are findable, usable, and preserved. This 12-month, full-time role is primarily on campus with some remote flexibility.

You will administer Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons), shape preservation policies, collaborate on grants and courses, and lead digitization workflows while training staff and students in digital tools and best practices.

Qualifications

• MLS/MLIS or related library degree with library experience
• Experience with digital collections, metadata, and preservation workflows

Responsibilities

• Prepare digitized and born-digital materials for ingest and storage using archival standards
• Administer Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons) and related preservation tools
• Advise on preservation systems, digitization workflows, and lifecycle management
• Grow tools and services for scalable digital collections and define requirements
• Lead digital projects from plan to delivery and communicate timelines
• Teach and consult with faculty, staff, and students on digital tools and best practices
• Explore new preservation platforms and migrate content between systems when needed

Skills

Digital preservation

Metadata

Digitization

Digital repositories

Education

MLS/MLIS (ALA-accredited)

Tools

Digital Commons

Job description

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

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

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

Salaries at Kenyon are competitive and commensurate with experience. In addition to an attractive salary, Kenyon offers benefits for employees and their family members. 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. Details about benefits as well as conditions of employment are described more fully in our Staff Handbook .

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 welcome applications from all qualified individuals. It is the College's policy to evaluate qualified applicants without 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 inclusive environment that welcomes all voices and perspectives.