The Digital Conversion Production Manager oversees the Digital Conversion Unit (DCU) within the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS). The DCU is responsible for digital conversion of library collections, working with monograph, serial, newspaper, photograph, and manuscript collections. The DCU converts on average 5,000 volumes per year, and is committed to high-volume, efficient digitization.

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The NEW School for Scanning. . .

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) seeks a Director of Digital Services responsible for coordinating digital production, developing new services, and providing education and consultation in conjunction with NEDCC's well-established Field Service Program.

Primary responsibilities:
Digital Production - Oversees production, including workflow, pricing structure, quality control, and hardware and software purchases; addresses staff training needs; determines the Center's product mix and outsourcing needs, developing and implementing new services as needed; in consultation
with the Executive Director, engages in long-range planning for the digital lab.

Marketing - Conducts market research on clients' evolving needs; evaluates client satisfaction; helps potential clients plan digital projects and develop specifications; helps potential clients identify funding sources.

Summary of Responsibilities:
The Digital Projects Manager will be responsible for overall planning and management of projects related to the Library's digital collection. He/she will perform detailed analysis of digitization and digital collection projects. Analysis includes functional needs assessment and requirements specification for new digital collections; specification of workflows for digitizing or capturing, loading, producing metadata for digital library collections; developing budgets for new projects and managing approved projects to completion. Duties include preparation of proposals for projects and developing work plans, schedules and budgets for proposed projects, as well as maintaining documentation for approved projects and preparing status reports. Responsible for the management of digitization projects at various stages from conception through completion.

Requirements:

PROJECT ARCHIVIST (SCIENTIST, MUSEUM, SR) SALARY RANGE: $3,691 - $3,840/mo.

The University Art Museum (UAM) at UC Santa Barbara is distinguished by its Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) which documents the built environment of California and the Southwest. The ADC boasts more than 850,000 historic drawings and 1300 linear feet of manuscript material. Its nucleus was solidified in the late 1960s when the UAM acquired the archives of Rudolph M. Schindler and Irving Gill. Today the collection represents the archives of more than 90 designers and includes architectural drawings, photographs, manuscript material, three-dimensional objects, models, and furniture. The UAM seeks a skilled archivist to be responsible for a two-year archival cataloging and digitization project of selected ADC holdings, funded by the IMLS Museums for America program. The Project Archivist will report to the UAM's Curator of Architecture and Design.