Digital Stewardship Librarian: Lead Digital Collections

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

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.