Digital Stewardship Librarian: Preserve & Grow

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 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.