[Web4lib] Position announcement: Digital Conversion Production Manager

[Perry Willett]

The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) is
seeking a Digital Conversion Production Manager (2-year term appointment) to
manage the DLPS Digital Conversion Unit (DCU). The DCU is responsible for
digital conversion of library collections working with monograph, serial,
newspaper, photograph, and manuscript collections. The DCU converts on
average 5,000 volumes per year, and is committed to high-volume, efficient
digitization. The DCU also works closely with the Scholarly Publishing
Office (SPO) on digitizing materials to be published by SPO, and the DCU
staff work closely with library selectors, archivists and special
collections librarians in developing cost estimates for digitization
projects.  

The Digital Conversion Production Manager supervises a unit of 7
professionals, and part-time workers and student assistants, including
technicians for digital capture and conversion of textual materials and
continuous tone images.  The incumbent is responsible for establishing
departmental priorities and long-range unit planning.

The Digital Conversion Production Manager develops and maintains a
productive and cost effective processing operation which is responsive to
the needs of other library units and library users. The workflow for digital
conversion needs to be reevaluated due to several factors: the University
Library's partnership with Google; changes in the organizational structure
of the DCU; and the DLPS's commitment to the principles expressed in the
Trusted Digital Repository report issued by RLG and OCLC. Quality control
should be strengthened with more automated processes, and documentation and
vendor specifications need to be rewritten in response to these factors.
More information is available at:
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/hr/employment/digitalconversion.html>


Perry Willett
Head, Digital Library Production Service
300 Hatcher North
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205
Ph: 734-764-8074
Fax: 734-647-6897 
Email: pwillett at umich.edu