POSITION DETAILS
This position reports to the Head Librarian. In addition to the CUNY Title Overview, responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
- Oversee the development, management, and preservation of Centro’s digital archival holdings.
- Provide leadership and promote innovation in the management, access, and storage of digital archival holdings.
- Coordinate the archival digitization program, including overseeing selection, preparation of materials, digitization, post-processing, quality assurance, ingest, access and discovery of digital objects.
- Administer CENTRO’s digital collections portal, including training staff, maintaining user documentation, performing system maintenance of metadata and user interface, encoding import and export templates, and liaising with IT staff.
- Implement CENTRO’s digital preservation policy and collaborate with tech staff to enhance, improve, and scale digital preservation.
- Run born-digital processing program, including producing or enhancing finding aids and developing access mechanisms for born-digital content.
- Oversee CENTRO’s audiovisual collections and serve as curator of the oral history collections.
- Manage Digital Projects Coordinator and other digital projects archival staff.
- Collaborate with the Archival Collections Manager and Library Manager to provide use of and access to the digital archival holdings as well as developing and revising policies and procedures for the Library and Archives.
- Actively contribute to broader information management work within Centro, Hunter College and across CUNY and participation in relevant professional organizations.