Description
The Digital Media Librarian oversees Academic Commons; guide digitization of legacy archival media; archive and catalog institutional recordings, including reformatted legacy and new born-digital recordings; assists library staff with other digitization and technology projects; assists faculty with digital reserves and use of instructional technology.
This role requires an in-person presence. The salary range for this role is $68,000-$72,000 annually.
Working at Juilliard
Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.
Excellence and professionalism are important guides in how we go about our work, but we also connect to the mission as individuals in the workplace. We thrive because of our variety of backgrounds and our ability to be open and honest, and we also thrive because we enjoy each other’s company. We believe that each employee has the responsibility to help shape the Juilliard organizational culture, and we provide opportunities to participate in team-building throughout the year. Our organizational values focus on excellence, creative enterprise, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
We encourage you to read more about how we achieve our mission on our website, juilliard.edu.
Role Responsibilities
- Oversee digital preservation of archival audio and video collections, including grant-funded digitization projects, as well as metadata creation.
- Catalog institutional recordings using OCLC’s ContentDM.
- Work closely with Juilliard’s Media Production Department on transfer of completed institutional recordings; participate in regular Library/IT meetings, including discussions of data storage and management.
- Respond to reference questions and inquiries related to archival recordings.
- Provide library reference service.
- Work selected Saturdays as part of reference librarian rotation.
- Manage equipment inventory and other reservation systems in LibCal.
- Manage creation and maintenance of LibGuides as library instructional tools.
- Assist faculty with creation of digital reserves, both print and audio/video.
- Work closely with archives and library staff on digitization of materials in other formats (photographs, music manuscripts, etc).
- Oversee Academic Commons, which encompasses library collection of more than 26,000 commercial sound recordings and 3,000 videos, and the student computer lab; assist faculty members in use of educational technology.
- Assist with library communications to student, faculty, staff through library blog and newsletter.
Minimum Requirements
- ALA-accredited M.L.S. degree.
- Bachelor’s degree in music.
- Knowledge of best practices for audiovisual preservation and access, including metadata creation and file storage.
- Knowledge of best practices for preservation of physical copies
- Experience digitizing materials in all formats (audio, video, prints, and photographs)
- Experience with ContentDM.
- Knowledge of preservation methods for born-digital materials
- Knowledge of copyright, especially as it relates to digital reserves.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and strong commitment to library service
- Familiarity with MARC cataloging for audio and video materials, as well as emerging standards relevant to digital media discovery and description (i.e, BibFrame); experience using LC authority files.
- Familiarity with digital asset or content management systems (DAM or CMS) that meet the needs of archival-based research, retrieval, and security.
- Familiarity with Course Management Systems and other educational technology tools
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as the ability to function efficiently within a busy and demanding work environment.
- Please note that submission of a cover letter is required to apply for this role.
Nondiscrimination Policy
The Juilliard School is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Juilliard community, and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, alienage, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, physical or mental disability, medical condition, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, partnership status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal law. This nondiscrimination policy covers, but is not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, benefits, rates of pay and other forms of compensation as well as student admission, access, and treatment in school programs and activities.
