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From: Prescott, Heather (History) <prescott@ccsu.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:17 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Fw: DH Library Job
To: “Institute@lists.uvic.ca” <Institute@lists.uvic.ca>

Hello,

Could you please post this job announcement to the listserv? Thank you.

Heather Prescott

*Instructional Faculty*

*[C18-035] – Digital Humanities Librarian*

*Position Information*

*Category:*
Instructional Faculty

*Deadline:*
2018-03-15

*Contact Person:*
Kristin D’Amato
Email: damatok@ccsu.edu
Phone: 860-832-2074 <(860)%20832-2074>

Apply Now (https://hrat.ccsu.edu/index.php?job=259&apply)

*Job Description*

Central Connecticut State University’s Elihu Burritt Library seeks a
collaborative, creative and enthusiastic Digital Humanities Librarian to
join the professional staff. The successful candidate will provide
leadership in identifying trends and emerging technologies in digital
humanities and building partnerships and cultivating relationships with key
university units to develop digital humanities collections and programs.
The successful candidate will also provide instruction to faculty and
students in the area of digital research. As part of the Reference
Department, this position will have responsibility for providing
user-centered services in support of teaching, research, and scholarship in
the humanities disciplines. Candidates are expected to be committed to
multiculturalism and working with a diverse student body as well as
contribute actively and effectively to student growth, service, and
scholarship. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to,
the following:

· Provides leadership and serves as a strategist and resource
person for the library in the areas of digital humanities and digital
research.

· Provides direct support and project management for faculty
projects in Digital Humanities.

· Identifies, evaluates, implements and manages current and
emerging technologies relevant to Digital Humanities initiatives.

· Provides instruction, consultation and training to researchers of
all levels in Digital Humanities scholarship.

· Develops research tools and leads presentations and workshops to
facilitate user access to various tools and methods.

· Collaborates with librarians to create, maintain, preserve, and
enrich our existing institutional repository and to develop new digital
content to enhance existing library collections.

· Develops and implements a plan allowing for integration and
migration of digitized materials, finding aids, and other harvesting to
internal and outside services such as Connecticut Digital Archives.

· Serves as a liaison to one or more academic
departments/university programs in the humanities for the purpose of
collection development.

· Develops themselves professionally based on the changing needs of
the users, the university, and other factors, shares this learning with
other library staff members and departments.

· As a library faculty member will successfully fulfill all
requirements necessary to achieve and maintain tenure.

*Required Qualifications: *

· Master’s degree in library science accredited by American Library
Association

· Teaching experience in higher education (e.g. curricular
instruction, library instruction, etc.)

· Demonstrated knowledge and experience with technologies, metadata
schemas, scripting languages and standards used in Digital Humanities work

· Excellent communication (verbal, written, interpersonal) and
problem solving skills

· Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively

· Demonstrated commitment to multiculturalism with an understanding
of library needs for a diverse community

*Preferred Qualifications:*

· Advanced degree in a humanities field, or recent coursework

· Project management experience and skills

· Significant experience working with primary sources and/or
conducting archival research

· Experience with providing information literacy instruction and
reference/research consultation in an academic/research library

· Experience with course design and digital course management
software (e.g. Blackboard, Moodle, etc.)

*The University: *CCSU is one of four universities in the Connecticut
State Colleges & Universities system. Excellent professors and a wide
array of academic programs prepare students for success in whatever field
they choose. CCSU serves approximately 12,200 students – 9,500
undergraduates, and 2,700 graduates. CCSU is richly diverse: more than 30
percent of students are of traditional minority heritage. Visit our web
site at http://www.ccsu.edu/.

*The Community:* CCSU is located in New Britain, a city with a population
of some 70,000, within a 10-minute drive to the state capital of
culture-rich Hartford. CCSU is currently in a large-scale community
engagement initiative, designed to more effectively embrace our communities
as the “steward of central Connecticut.” Pursuing a range of partnership
arrangements with area businesses, schools, agencies, and more, this
initiative will create significant new opportunities for student
internships, faculty research, as well as an expanding array of cultural
collaborations with the New Britain Symphony Orchestra, city theatres, the
world-renowned New Britain Museum of American Art, and other area
attractions.

*Application and Appointment*: For full consideration, applications must
be received by *March 15, 2018. * Salary and rank are commensurate with
education and experience. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
To begin the application process, click on the *Apply Now *button and
electronically submit the following:

· Letter of interest addressing qualifications for the position

· Current resume

· Names of three current professional references with addresses,
email addresses and telephone numbers

Please redact any personally identifiable information (i.e., SSN, DOB,
marital status) from any documents submitted. *Incomplete applications
will not be considered. Emailed or mailed copies will not be accepted. *

For more information contact Kristin D’Amato at 860-832-2074
<(860)%20832-2074> or damatok@ccsu.edu.

*Central Connecticut State University is an affirmative action and equal
opportunity employer*