Accessibility Assistant, Digitization Center

Title: Extra Help - Accessibility Assistant, Digitization Center
Division Name: Academic Affairs
Department: Milner Library

Milner Library’s Digitization Center is hiring an extra help Accessibility Assistant. The Digitization Center creates digital images of cultural heritage materials held in university collections, processes them, and makes them available to researchers through the library’s online platforms. The Accessibility Assistant will be responsible for remediating documents and applying alt-text to images to ensure digital accessibility compliant with mandated standards, as well as administering the Center’s account on a crowdsource platform for transcription of handwritten materials.

This is a temporary extra help position for Spring/Summer 2026. Applicants must be available to work 20 hours per week. Hours are flexible. This position is not eligible for remote work.

• Complete provided training on digital accessibility standards and tools
• Remediate documents to meet accessibility standards using Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY Fine Reader, and other tools
• Develop and apply alternative text to images in digital collections
• Apply metadata to files and upload them to online platforms
• Administer online crowdsource platform for generating manual transcripts of handwritten documents
• Name and store files to a secure network according to strict conventions
• May process images in Adobe Photoshop as needed

Benefits include time away from work for eligible employees and the option to participate in the University’s 403(b) Plan.

$20.00 per hour

Varies. Up to 28 hours per week.

Must be able to complete the following with or without a reasonable accommodation:

March 2026

• Resume
• Cover Letter

Please fully complete the entire application including, but not limited to, the education and work history portions. Be specific on your work history, including employment dates (if part‑time you must list the number of work hours) and duties for all positions held. Applicable part‑time work experience will be considered toward qualifying for this position; however, it will be converted to a full‑time equivalency to determine combined length of experience.

Please do not put “see resume” in the duties and responsibilities section of the work history. This will be considered an incomplete application and incomplete applications will not be considered.

Extra Help employees may only work up to 28 hours per week for all University employment and are paid for hours worked only. Extra Help employment does not guarantee permanent placement. Extra Help employees may only work up to 900 total hours.

Illinois State University is authorized to do business within the State of Illinois. All work under this appointment is required to be performed from within the State of Illinois.

Mackenzie Chapman
Human Resources

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