[Metadatalibrarians] Job Advert

[Ryng, Briona]

Please can I submit the following advert for your list.

 

Thanks and regards

Bríona

 

 

 

 

Library Digital Project Officer

Dept. of Special Collection, Archives & Repository Services

UCC Library

(2-year wholetime contract post)

Applications are invited for the contract post of Digital Project Officer in the Boole Library.  Reporting to the Head of Special Collections, Archives and Repository Services, the purpose of the post is to undertake project related duties for a two year period.  Specific projects will include The George Boole Digitisation Project, the Villiers Stuart Listing and Digitisation Project, and the maintenance and development of the authorised Frank O’Connor Website.  The Project Officer will aid these and future projects through a variety of core digital humanities tasks, including designing and implementing text encoding workflows, maintaining relational databases, and web publishing and/or other appropriate encoding methodologies.  

It will be the role of a Digital Project Officer to undertake the task of digitising material from source collections. The material exists in a wide variety of formats and types, all of which require specialised care and handling during the process. The agreed deliverables of the project shall include a body of digitised content incorporating all relevant media types; a prototype, web enabled database with additional functionality and a comprehensive report noting regulatory, costing and other issues.

Applicants must have excellent IT skills in the context of digitization, appropriate skills and experience in digitisation, and a third level qualification. The successful candidate will have the ability to work with library and academic staff, and students to develop and apply technological tools for research needs.  The successful candidate will also be self-motivated, resourceful and enthusiastic with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and will be expected to operate in a goal orientated environment 

Salary: within the ranges €41,243 - €51,254 (new entrants) depending on qualifications and experience.

 

Please see www.ucc.ie/hr <http://www.ucc.ie/hr>  for more details

Completed application forms should be returned to: 

Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, College Road, Cork

Tel: 021 4903073/Fax 021 4276995 / Email: recruitment at per.ucc.ie

 Closing Date: Friday 24th October 2008

UCC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

 

 

Bríona Ryng

Dept of Human Resources

University College Cork

Ph: 021 4902364

Email: b.ryng at ucc.ie

 


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