Digital Archivist, Visiting Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), (Edwardsville, Illinois)

Posted May 17, 2023

Job Description/Responsibilities
Library & Information Services (LIS) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Archivist (three-year appointment) with knowledge and experience in acquiring, preserving, and providing public access to born-digital and digitized archival and unique collections holdings.

The Digital Archivist will have primary responsibility for identifying, accessioning, processing, describing, and making discoverable the university’s born-digital, digitized, and digitally-reformatted archival resources. Working in collaboration with faculty and staff in the University Archives & Unique Collections (UAUC) unit, across LIS, and throughout the university, the Digital Archivist will provide expertise for the initiation, implementation, and assessment of policies, systems, and processes for the long-term preservation of born-digital and digitally-reformatted university records, publications, manuscripts and rare books. This position will participate in collaborative initiatives to facilitate high-impact teaching practices across the curriculum by integrating LIS and its rich archival and unique collections into a variety of academic courses and programs.

SIUE has a robust cross-disciplinary and collaborative digital humanities community. LIS UAUC has extensive manuscript holdings, among them are the John Francis McDermott Collection (Illinois Country and French Louisiana), the Harold Gibbons Collection (organized labor), the Hap Meyer Collection (American soccer), the Etienne Cabet Collection (Icarian utopian community), the Noverr Collection (Walt Whitman journalism), the Eugene B. Redmond Collection (Black Arts movement), and rich holdings in music (for example, Ruth Slenczynska Collection).

How to Apply

For more information and to apply, please go to the following link: https://www.siue.edu/employment/library/FY23-081.shtml .