Job Description
The Auraria Library is hiring a Special & Digital Collections Digital Archivist to join Auraria Library’s Special & Digital Collections. This is a term-limited contract position with a 3-year contract. The Special & Digital Collections Digital Archivist is responsible for identifying items for digitization with the Special & Digital Collections Program Lead Librarian and Archivist Librarian, digitizing those items using best practices, creating discovery and metadata for objects, and instituting long-term preservation workflows. The Special & Digital Collections unit is housed within the Collection Management and Discovery Division. As a unit, we are driven to support faculty and staff learning and research through our unique holdings.
Our digital collection items are currently located in the Auraria Digital Collections using Ubiquity. The Auraria Digital Collections is where the most digitized special collections are located and are shared with the Auraria Institutional Repository (AIR) which is managed by the Scholarly Research Services Department. This position will create best practices for discovery and ways to assist our users in identifying the difference between a digital collection item and an institutional repository item. This work will require someone interested in adapting an existing metadata template with limited avenues for adjustment to support elements of metadata best standards.
The Special & Digital Collections Digital Archivist will work with a wide variety of born-digital and physical materials including AV media, manuscripts, books, images, and others. This position will also be assigned various projects related to digital collections including metadata cleanup, creating documentation, and standardizing workflows.