Librarian Asst. Professor - Digital Stewardship Librarian

Librarian Assistant Professor / Librarian Associate Professor (Digital Stewardship Librarian)

The University of Miami Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative, and creative professional to join us as Digital Stewardship Librarian—a role which will bridge the work of preserving our unique cultural heritage collections with making them discoverable and usable. Reporting to the Head of Digital Initiatives, the Digital Stewardship Librarian will partner closely with colleagues in Digital Initiatives, Manuscripts and Archives Management, Distinctive Collections, Technical Services, Library Information Technology, Preservation Strategies, Learning and Research Services, and other library units.

They will develop and implement curation practices for UML’s distinctive born‑digital and digitized collections throughout their lifecycle, including ingestion, metadata creation, transfer to preservation repositories, format migrations for obsolete media, and ongoing storage monitoring, ensuring the long‑term integrity and stewardship of digital archival materials. The Digital Stewardship Librarian will also partner with UM’s subject‑specialty libraries to advise and assist with the curation of their digital holdings, including the Architecture Research Center, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Library, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center (Business Library), and the Louis Calder Memorial Library (Medical Library).

The Digital Stewardship Librarian will transform preservation into access by appraising, describing, and making born‑digital and digitized materials available through discovery platforms, including CONTENTdm. The Digital Stewardship Librarian will work collaboratively and communicate across departments to integrate preservation workflows with user‑focused access strategies.

• Coordinate cross‑departmental initiatives by aligning the priorities, workflows, and expertise of Digital Initiatives, Manuscripts and Archives Management, Distinctive Collections, Learning and Research Services, Technical Services, and other units to deliver an integrated preservation‑to‑access pipeline.
• Bridge preservation and access by ensuring that born‑digital curation guidelines, workflows, and technologies not only safeguard assets long‑term but also make them discoverable and usable.
• Advise and assist with curation of digital special collections materials held by subject‑specialty libraries, including the Architecture Research Center, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Library, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resource Center (Business Library), and the Louis Calder Memorial Library (Medical Library).
• In collaboration with Technical Services and the Head of Digital Initiatives, manage making born‑digital and digitized collections accessible through discovery platforms, including CONTENTdm.
• In collaboration with Technical Services and the Head of Digital Initiatives, manage and track the progress of born‑digital and digitized digital collections projects, including digital transfer, copyright clearance, and metadata creation, coordinating ingests of content and creation of collection pages, managing statistics, and coordinating with stakeholders for digital collections visibility and promotion.
• Apply professional curation standards (national and international) to develop guidelines, implement policies, and build repeatable workflows for the appraisal, accessioning, and processing of born‑digital archival content with a focus on access.
• Advise on collection strategies by working with curators and donors to guide the transfer, appraisal, and description of born‑digital manuscripts, personal papers, and records—ensuring legal, ethical, and technical requirements are met.
• Manage digital asset life cycles including metadata creation, ingestion, transfer to preservation repositories (e.g., APTrust), format migrations for obsolete media, and ongoing storage monitoring.
• Manage selected web archiving projects by working with curators to…