Digital Collections Program Coordinator

• Leads the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the library’s digital collections program; chairs the Digital Collections Working Group.
• Working with staff in various departments, assesses the technical feasibility of proposals for digital collections, develops proposals into full work plans, and estimates the resources needed to implement these plans.
• Manages projects to produce digital collections, coordinating the work done in various departments, ensuring adequate communication among staff involved in the projects, and keeping projects on schedule.
• Monitors national trends regarding digital collections and digital library initiatives, shares information with other staff as appropriate, and applies it to planning and program development at Duke.
• Identifies potential digital collections, seeking proposals from other library staff and advising them regarding the development of proposals.
• Develops grant proposals for digital collection projects.
• Responds to and assists faculty and other members of the university community who request assistance from the library in creating digital surrogates or collections from materials held by them or their departments or programs.
• Advises Collections Council regarding themes and strategies for the development of the digital collections program; promotes the library’s digital collections; evaluates the collections and their use.
• Working with staff in other departments as appropriate, plans, implements, and monitors external contracts providing digitization, metadata creation, or other services related to the digital collections program.

 Working Conditions
• Must be able to work in an environment in which exposure to materials containing dust and mold is possible
• Normal office environment
• Occasional travel required

It is the expectation that all Perkins Library staff members will demonstrate exceptional workplace behaviors in the execution of their specific position responsibilities. These behaviors are customer focus, collaboration, creative problem solving, continuous learning and a commitment to diversity.

The libraries of Duke University consist of the William R. Perkins Library and its five branches on campus: Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Math-Physics, Lilly and Music; the library at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort; and the independently administered libraries of the professional schools: The Ford Library at the Fuqua School of Business, Divinity School Library, Duke Law Library and the Medical Center Library. Duke's library holdings of 5.5 million volumes are among the largest of private universities in the United States. Duke is a member of the Triangle Research Libraries Network, which promotes collaboration in the areas of collection development and management, access services, information technology and human resources among the libraries of Duke University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina State University.

Duke University and Durham are located in the Research Triangle, a region that encompasses one of the nation's premier concentrations of academic, corporate, and public research. The Triangle region is rated among the most desirable areas in North America to live and work and has been identified by Money magazine as one of the "Best Places to Live" in the U.S.