Deadline: Open Until Filled
Working on behalf of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), https://ivpluslibraries.org/, the Web Collection Librarian coordinates the IPLC Web Collecting Program, a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available but at-risk web content in order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond.
The Web Collection Librarian will perform the operational work of maintaining and growing the existing 30 collaborative IPLC thematic web collections and building new web collections–including web harvesting, website owner notifications, quality assurance, description and organization, disclosure, assessment, preservation, and outreach for public use–while working closely with IPLC stakeholders to help coordinate the collaborative Program. The ideal candidate is a focused and detail-oriented information professional with outstanding communication skills and demonstrated experience with collaboration, equally suited and committed to in-depth web collection building and high-profile collaborative outreach with IPLC participants and the research library community.
The Web Collection Librarian will be organizationally based at Columbia University Libraries, reporting to Columbia’s Web Resources Collection Coordinator and the IPLC Web Collecting Advisory Committee, and working closely with the IPLC Director of Collection Initiatives and other IPLC stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage processes for website owner notifications, web harvesting, quality assurance, description and organization, disclosure, public use, assessment and preservation of freely available web resources
- Collaborate with members of the IPLC Web Collecting Advisory Committee and other colleagues to draft and maintain workflows and policies for the Web Collecting Program
- Collaborate with subject specialists from across all IPLC partner institutions to develop new thematic web collections
- Collaborate with subject specialists from across all IPLC partner institutions to maintain and grow the 30 existing thematic web collections, by adding new websites and new captures of current seed websites
- Provide regular Program updates to IPLC stakeholders, including new collection announcements
- Advocate for web collections and archives and promote relevant best practices within IPLC
- Represent the IPLC and the Web Collecting Program at, and participate in local, national and international organizations and initiatives devoted to electronic archival standards development and research.
*This is a 3-year position with the possibility of renewal*