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Alabama State University, Academic Affairs/Levi Watkins Learn Center,
invites applications for the position of Humanities/Digital Archivist.
Under direct supervision of Coordinator of Public Services, provides
reference and information services to the academic community and works with
library digital projects.

*Duties and responsibilities:*

   - Manage digitization projects for the library, scan metadata creations
   and upload items into the digital management system, mange workflow and
   conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display.
   - Serve as a subject liaison for the Department of Humanities, the
   Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and the Department of History, to
   facilitate selection of appropriate resources for curricular and research
   needs.
   - Prepare required reports.
   - Handle general and in-depth reference questions at selected hours with
   primary responsibilities at the Special Collection and Information desk.
   - Guide faculty, staff, and student in the effective use of humanities
   resources by providing traditional and we-based instructional training that
   support the ACRL informational literacy competency standards.
   - Teach information literacy classes for the assigned subject areas of
   archives and humanities using digital resources in the creation of teaching
   modules, bibliographies and other finding aids.
   - Participate in inventories of library materials.
   - Assist in the provision of archival services in campus museum projects.
   - Participate in scholarly communication imitative and actively
   collaborates in outreach initiatives with collegiate faculty in these
   disciplines.
   - Engage in research and scholarly publishing.
   - Collect and analyze data from surveys and other assessment measures
   for select reports.
   - Serve on library teams, attend university functions, and perform other
   duties as assigned.


 Minimum Qualifications:
An ALA accredited Master's degree in Library and Information Science, OR a
Master's degree in Management Information Systems, History, Archival Museum
Management or a Master's degree in an associated humanities field is
required.