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Assistant Head of Digitization Services

Assistant Head of Digitization Services

Library of Congress Job Location: District of Columbia Apply By: 04/03/2023 Date Created: 02-23-2023

The Digitization Services Section of the Digital Collections Management and Services Division at the Library of Congress is hiring an Assistant Head. The successful candidate will lead a team of digital imaging specialists working to improve access to Library of Congress Collections through digitization and work with colleagues across the Library of Congress to implement the institution's digitization strategy.
  • Supervises a group of employees performing work up to the GS-13 level.
  • Serves as an expert in the organization, development, and implementation of multiple complex projects involving all aspects of the digitization of cultural heritage materials. Leads working groups, task forces, committees or ad hoc groups in digitization projects.
  • Directs day-to-day operations of digitization programs to ensure ongoing, efficient, and trustworthy ingest and processing of digitized content.
  • Analyzes and participates in the development of appropriate guidelines, standards and mechanisms for setting program priorities. Creates innovative tools/approaches to digitization within the broad framework of program strategies and goals.
  • Serves as an expert advisor on digitization practices. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with staff at multiple levels throughout the service unit and across the Library, as well as with those in the larger cultural heritage digitization community. Coordinates digitization activities with specialists in curatorial units throughout LCSG.
  • Using knowledge of digital libraries and technical solutions, provides expert analysis and advice and develops solutions to solve issues and problems associated with cultural heritage digitization.

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