The Digital Preservation Librarian will lead the development  and implementation of preservation strategies and policies for digital collections for the IU Libraries,  including both digitized and born-digital materials. These materials include, but are not limited to, texts, images, time-based media, data sets, web and social media archives, email archives, and 3D models. They will establish strategy, policies, procedures, and best practices for the long-term access, management, and preservation of digital content and collections. The position collaborates across multiple library departments and with campus and IU-wide partners to implement digital strategies, policies, processes, and system requirements, and cultivates partnerships around the long-term preservation of assets under the Libraries’ stewardship. The position reports to the Head of Digital Collections Services in the Library Technologies division of the Libraries.
The successful candidate will join a robust local community of librarians, archivists, collection managers, and information technology professionals active in building digital collections through digitization, born-digital acquisitions, and deposit of faculty research work, and in building and managing digital repository environments to support these collections. The Digital Preservation Librarian will be an active participant in major university initiatives such as preserving content produced by the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (https://mdpi.iu.edu/), a comprehensive digitization and preservation project focusing on audio, video, and film holdings of value from across the university with a current emphasis on access, and the Enterprise Scholarly Systems initiative, a collaboration between the IU Libraries in Bloomington, IUPUI University Library in Indianapolis, and IU’s University Information Technology Services, to establish enterprise-wide digital repository services, including preservation services, for IU collections. The Digital Preservation Librarian will also be actively engaged in IU’s participation in national and international initiatives such as Fedora (https://duraspace.org/fedora/) and the Samvera Community (https://samvera.org/).

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