UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center Digital Archivist
- Employer
- University of California Los Angeles
- Location
- California, United States
- Salary
- $58,365.00 - $89,392.00
- Date posted
- Dec 16, 2021
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- Position Type
- Jobs Outside Academe, Non-profit & Government Organizations
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Ralph J. Bunche Center is an Organized Research Unit (ORU)
within the Institute of American Cultures (IAC), which houses the
four ethnic studies research centers based at the University of
California, Los Angeles. The Library and Media Center (LMC)
supports the mission of the Bunche Center by supporting research
that expands knowledge of African American history and culture and
investigates problems that affect people of African descent. The
LMC is one of several affiliated libraries at UCLA. Affiliated
status allows the Bunche Library and Media Center to independently
manage collections and services for its core constituency.
The LMC collection has over 8,000 monograph, serial, archival and
audio visual materials on African, African American, and Caribbean
history and culture. The book collection includes monographs,
series and reference materials, and is supplemented with
subscriptions to academic journals, popular magazines, and African
American newspapers. The audio/visual collection consists of
audiocassette tapes, VHS tapes and DVD’s. Its content includes
classic movies, documentaries, campus events, and music. Archives
collections in the Bunche LMC currently include vertical files,
personal papers, and records.
Position Duties:
With support from the Mellon Foundation and in collaboration with
UCLA’s ethnic studies research centers, the Bunche Center is
currently building the necessary infrastructure to maintain digital
archives and host a wide range of digital collections related to
Black life. The Bunche Center is hiring a Digital Archivist to
guide and lead this initiative. This work will include developing,
documenting, and implementing digital workflows to ingest, catalog,
preserve, access, store, and secure current and future materials
held by the Bunche Library. The Archivist will collaborate with
UCLA Library Special Collections staff to process hybrid manuscript
collections and create finding aids using EAD and DACS. The
Archivist will participate in the identification, conception,
development, and implementation of grant applications in support of
the Bunche Library’s digital initiatives, including collaborations
with UCLA’s ethnic studies libraries. The Archivist will stay
abreast of issues and tools related to the stewardship of digital
materials and represent the Bunche Library at campus as well as
national, regional, and local committees, conferences, and forums
on matters relevant to digital collections management. The Digital
Archivist will work with the Bunche Librarian and the library’s
stakeholders to create and update the Library’s Digital
Preservation Policy. The digital archivist may supervise
student/staff workers.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the
following:
● Develop and document digital workflows in order to support the
preservation, access, and security of digital materials; recommend
and utilize digital processing tools and advise on preservation
strategies and storage needs for digital materials.
● Collaborate with the Center Librarian to realize and implement
discovery and access initiatives for digital materials.
● Collaborate with Library Special Collections staff to process
hybrid manuscript collections and create finding aids using EAD and
DACS.
● Participate in the conception and development of grant
applications in support of digital initiatives.
● Stay abreast of issues and tools related to the stewardship of
digital materials; represent the UCLA and national, regional, and
local committees and forums on matters relevant to digital
collections management.
● Work with content stewards across the IAC libraries to
develop/support procedures and digital workflows.
● Work with the project managers and metadata stakeholders to
create collection models and metadata plans for batch ingest.
● Develop and implement the Bunche Library’s content accessibility,
metadata, and preservation strategy.
● Work with Bunche Librarian to expand the center’s digital
collections.
● Develop and document workflows and best practices for
implementing digital archives at UCLA ethnic studies centers.
● Work with the Center Librarian to create/update the Libraries’
Digital Preservation Policy.
● Collaborate with IAC librarians on grant projects.
● Provide guidance and leadership for the digital stewardship of
the Bunche Library’s specialized and general collections including
planning, implementation, and assessment of current systems and
infrastructure, and new technologies.
General Information
Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. Librarians
at UCLA are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent,
University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This
is a represented position.
They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per
month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all
other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The
University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a
variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance may be
provided.
Appointees to the librarian series at UC shall have professional
backgrounds that demonstrate a high degree of creativity, teamwork,
and flexibility. Such background will normally include a
professional degree from an ALA accredited library and information
science graduate program. In addition to professional competence
and quality of service within the library in the primary job,
advancement in the librarian series requires professional
involvement and contributions outside of the library, and/or
university and community service, and/or scholarly activities.
Candidates must show evidence or promise of such contributions. The
successful candidate will be committed to promoting and enhancing
diversity through engagement with and promotion of the UCLA
Principles of Community (http://www.ucla.edu/about/mission-and-values)
Required Qualifications
• American Library Association-accredited MLIS, or equivalent
advanced degree and relevant experience
• Two or more years of demonstrated professional experience
preserving, processing, describing, and delivering digital and
hybrid archival materials in an academic, research, or community
library setting
• Knowledge of archival theory and practices
• Knowledge of technologies and systems developed or adopted by the
archival community for the management of and access to digital
materials
• Knowledge of metadata and other standards relevant to the control
of digital materials (such as OAIS, EAD, DACS, Dublin Core, MODS,
NDSA levels of digital preservation, and Preservation Metadata:
Implementation Standard (PREMIS))
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent communication and analytic skills, including the
ability to work well in a team- based environment
• Experience supervising students and paraprofessional staff
• Demonstrated experience and skill using technologies and
strategies related to digital forensics and digital
preservation
• Experience with digital preservation tools, such as Preservica,
Bitcurator, Bag-It, and Archive-it
• Experience with managing the use of preservation services
vendors
• Ability to maintain archival information packages within the
digital preservation system and work with partners to sync
preservation and develop a series of system audits, planning and
execution of format migrations, or other remediation practices as
needed/required
• Ability to work with library stakeholders to develop, support,
and adjust workflows
• Experience with participating in or managing mid- to-large scale
digitization projects
• Experience with community archives initiatives
• Demonstrated interest in Black Studies or ethnic studies
• Experience with identifying, developing, and implementing
grants
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