Job Opportunities
- Digital Production Superviser — Full-time, exempt
Digital Production Superviser
Libraries of The Claremont Colleges
Position Summary: Coordinate all digital production for collections destined for the CCDL; supervise all students and volunteer staff digitizing collections, including materials from library units such as Special Collections, Asian Studies and Gov Docs ; participate in creating digital format of analog resources (including image, text, audio, and video) and metadata records; assist with maintaining digitization hardware and software. This position will work closely with all CCDL staff and reports to the Digital Production Librarian.
Position Type and Compensation: This is a full-time (40 hours a week), exempt, benefits-eligible position. Minimum salary is $3,006 per month. Salary offered will be commensurate with education and experience.
Essential Functions:
- Coordinate all digital production for collections destined for the CCDL.
- Receive, register and track items coming to the CCDL for digitization.
- Prepare images for scanning (clean surface, remove duplicates, name files).
- Benchmark scans on new collections as needed.
- Scan archival master TIFF images on equipment appropriate to the resource type.
- Crop image, check histogram levels and perform other image manipulations recommended by the Digital Production Librarian.
- Run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on text material.
- Encode archival master audio and video.
- Supervise all students and volunteer staff digitizing collections to ensure quality control.
- Process time sheets for all students working on digital and metadata production.
- Capture administrative metadata on technical scan settings and equipment.
- Assign administrative metadata to digital items.
- Ensure archival master files are uploaded to the secured storage server.
- Provide first level of support for problems with hardware and software.
- Coordinate technical needs with Library Information Technology.
- Ensure calibration of CCDL monitors.
- Assist with training CCDL students, staff and volunteers on scanning resources.
- Maintain documentation on how to use CCDL equipment and scanning customizations.
- Perform one library service hour per week.
- Collaborate with faculty and staff from the Claremont Colleges on digital collections for the CCDL.
- Participate in weekly CCDL staff meetings.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in an appropriate field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum two to three years relevant work experience with digital projects in a project management position, preferably in an academic library.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Knowledge of scanning equipment and techniques.
- Knowledge of OCR.
- Knowledge of Dublin Core.
- Excellent supervisory skills.
- Knowledge of quality control as applied to digitization projects.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
Preferred: Working knowledge of digital asset management systems such as CONTENTdm. Awareness of copyright laws and rights management issues in a digital environment.
Application procedure:
- To apply send a cover letter, résumé and/or a completed CUC Employment Application, as well as the names and contact information of three professional references to the Office of Human Resources. Applications are available online at www.cuc.claremont.edu.
- Applications may be submitted by email to Claudia Mendoza at jobapps@cuc.claremont.edu, faxed to (909) 607-8085, by mail, or in-person to the Office of Human Resources located at 101 S. Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711.
- Employment is contingent on successful completion of a criminal background check.
Closing Date: Open until filled.
The Claremont Colleges are a consortium of seven private colleges which comprise a diverse academic community dedicated to fostering achievement, leadership, and life-long critical thinking. The Libraries, a member of the Claremont University Consortium, are partners with The Claremont Colleges in learning, teaching, and research. We are committed to fostering intellectual discovery, critical thinking, and life-long learning. Accordingly, the Libraries tie our academic community to varied cultural and scholarly traditions by offering user-centered services, building collections, developing innovative technologies, and providing an inviting environment for study, collaboration, and reflection.
The Claremont University Consortium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in the city of Claremont, California (population 36,500), 35 miles east of Los Angeles, the Claremont Colleges are a geographically contiguous set of five top-ranked liberal arts undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions, uniquely configured to support and encourage interdisciplinary study. The Libraries, a part of The Colleges' supporting organization, the Claremont University Consortium, support all seven colleges across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Comprising four buildings, three of which are located on individual campuses, the Libraries hold more than 2 million volumes and subscribe to a vast array of electronic resources.