Digitization Specialist

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

UT MAIN CAMPUS, USA
$21,000 (20 hours per week); benefits: eligible pm
Digitize archival material
Create metadata
Manage digitization workflow
This is a 20 hour per week benefits eligible position with a schedule to be arranged with a supervisor, and occasional Saturdays may be required for special events

Job Summary

  • This is a 20 hour per week benefits eligible position with a schedule to be arranged with a supervisor, and occasional Saturdays may be required for special events.
  • Responsibilities include communicating with researchers and donors regarding digitization requests, managing workflow, invoicing, and training interns and student workers.
  • The role involves using scanning equipment to digitize rare and fragile library and archival material, creating metadata, and uploading digital objects to a server.

Matching Summary

This is a 20 hour per week benefits eligible position with a schedule to be arranged with a supervisor, and occasional Saturdays may be required for special events.

Salary

$21,000 (20 hours per week); Benefits: Eligible

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Digitize archival material
  • Create metadata
  • Manage digitization workflow
  • Customer service
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Mac OS experience

Nice-to-have

  • Archival procedures and preservation knowledge
  • University academic library experience
  • Database applications experience
  • High comfort level with technology
  • Flexibility and tact
  • Scanning photographs and transparent media

Key Requirements

  • High school graduation or GED and two years of library experience
  • Sixty hours of college credit and one year of library experience
  • Twelve hours of graduate coursework in Library and Information Science
  • Experience with direct in-person customer service
  • Professional demeanor and appearance

Work Rights

Not specified

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