Vacancy for Digital Collections Officer at Special Collections & Galleries, Leeds University Library
Date: 21 November 2022
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Employment Type: Full-Time
Do you have a passion for archive collections and making them accessible? Do you have an appreciation of modern archives, their challenges, and opportunities? Are you committed to meeting goals with high-quality outcomes?
Special Collections at the University of Leeds holds outstanding collections, encompassing rare books and archives, the University’s institutional archive, the Stanley and Audrey Burton Art Gallery, and the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery. Born digital and hybrid digital/paper material are an ever-increasing part of our collections. The processing, management, and discovery of these collections and their related data are major challenges for the service and are a focus of efforts to effectively showcase our distinctive archives for use in learning, teaching, and research.
Responsibilities:
1. Surveying, processing, and cataloguing born-digital archive materials.
2. Extracting metadata and establishing archival structures.
3. Creating and verifying metadata according to agreed standards.
4. Collaborating with the Digital Archivist to implement standards across collections.
5. Processing collections from their arrival or capture through to ingestion.
6. Creating catalogue records for born digital items.
7. Managing rights and permissions metadata necessary for ingestion and access.
8. Working closely with colleagues across all aspects of the Special Collections team and broader Library teams.
Qualifications:
You will have a good understanding of archival principles and the challenges presented by digital archives and be comfortable in analysing and understanding their structure and format. You will be a confident user of IT, willing and able to quickly learn and apply new systems, and have excellent problem-solving skills, able to identify and develop practical solutions. You will be a team-worker, able to collaborate productively, and have excellent communication skills – able to explain often complex policies and procedures to a wide range of stakeholders.
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