Digitization Assistant, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA

Posted November 19, 2019

The Harvard Law School Library has an immediate opening for a 14-hour per week position. The majority of time each week will be dedicated to digitizing rare books to grow our Collection of medieval and early manuscripts at Harvard Law School Library, ca. 1150-1600. The Assistant will also undertake other collection management tasks, such as inventory control, materials transport, or metadata review/editing.

 

The Digitization Assistant will report to the Manger, Digital Strategy for Collections and work in close collaboration with the Librarian/Archivist for Digital Projects. Core digitization duties include: inventory tracking, digital photography with a Zeutschel Omniscan bookscanner, quality control of images, file renaming, and deposit of digital objects to the Harvard Library Digital Repository Service. For non-digitization tasks, we seek an individual possessing careful attention to detail, clear communications, flexibility, and proficiency and enjoyment working collaboratively and independently.

 

The Harvard Law School Library promotes collaboration, innovation of processes and procedures, and high accountability in all phases of digital stewardship. Digitization helps serve our mission to provide open access to the Library’s world-class collections. Preference will be given to applicants with experience in handling rare books and special collections, and/or knowledge of hardware and software associated with digital imaging.

 

Salary: $18.00 per hour

Term: through February 2020, with additional hours dependent upon operational need and funding

 

Please email statements of interest to Stephen Chapman, Manager, Digital Strategy for Collections, Harvard Law School Library, [email protected]