Author Archives: Melanie Hubbard

Boston College Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group (DSG) seeks a Digital Scholarship Librarian to be part of our new and growing team. Having recently hired two stellar candidates for our Data Visualization and one of our DS positions, we are now seeking someone who brings complementary skills–namely, web development and programming–and an equal ability to hit the ground running as the DSG strives to facilitate and support faculty and student digital research projects and digital scholarship (and digital humanities) in undergraduate and graduate curricula.

The Digital Scholarship Librarian is responsible for facilitating and supporting faculty and student digital research projects, ranging from short and long-term consultations (e.g., helping to identify appropriate methods, tools, and training resources) to more intensive, hands-on assistance with technology, project design, and project management. For faculty, they offer a range of teaching support, from providing one-shot instruction sessions to teaching multiple sessions and collaborating on curriculum design. Additionally, our DS Librarians are responsible for managing the Digital Studio in collaboration with the department head and will heavily influence how the space functions and the direction a potential redesign will take.

As a member of the DSG, the DS Librarians collaborate on providing current DS services, designing and implementing new ones, and are a valued voice in DSG strategic planning and goal setting as the group strives to expand its role in BC Libraries and beyond. The collaborative nature of this position extends to working with staff across the Libraries (subject liaison librarians, in particular) and campus with units such as Research Services and the Center for Digital Innovation in Learning to meet faculty research and teaching needs.

Apply on BC’s employment site. Please email melanie.hubbard@bc.edu if you have any questions.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in Library Science or Information Science, or an equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and library or digital scholarship experience;
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience, minimum 5 years for a senior position;
• Demonstrated experience in a range of digital scholarship methods (e.g., text analysis, GIS/mapping, network analysis, digital exhibits, 3D/immersive technologies, etc.), tools, and skills;
• The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines and work with and support faculty and students within those disciplines;
• The ability to collaborate with faculty, librarians, and staff on research projects and teaching;
• The ability and willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred

• Experience working in academic libraries;
• Experience providing DS skills training and classroom instruction;
• Has knowledge of digital accessibility best practices;
• Demonstrated knowledge of front-end web development using PHP, HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript, and familiarity with content management systems such as Omeka and WordPressds

Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). The ideal candidate for this position will have advanced data skills that can be applied across disciplines and, equally so, will be an effective communicator who can work with a range of collaborators inside and outside of the Libraries.

The Data Services Librarian is primarily responsible for collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and data skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools to faculty and staff; providing data skills instruction for undergraduate and graduate courses, and driving library-based curricula development (i.e., library instruction and modules) and resource creation/collection for data-centric and data science programs.

As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving new initiatives and services and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning as the group strives to expand its role in BC Libraries and the broader BC community. The collaborative nature of this position extends to working with staff across the Libraries, in particular, the Economics Librarian, the Business Librarian, and other subject liaison librarians, and outside campus units, including Research Services and the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. They will also work with the University’s emerging cross-disciplinary Data Science minor.

Apply on BC’s employment site. Please email melanie.hubbard@bc.edu if you have any questions.

Required

• A Master’s degree in Library Science or Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field, plus 2-3 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience in
  • Providing data curation, management, cleaning, and mining services;
  • Using data and related technologies to support teaching or research;
  • Working with numeric data in an academic, scientific, or corporate environments;
  • The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty, instructors, and staff;
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred

• Experience working in academic libraries;
• Knowledge of data preservation strategies;
• Demonstrated experience in
  • Working with data repository platforms (e.g., Dataverse);
  • Proving data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.);
  • Data/text mining and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R;
  • Data visualization;
  • Using statistical tools (e.g., SPSS, SAS, Stata)