Job Posting: Digital Asset Curator @ Wheaton College (Norton, MA)

[Scott Hamlin]

I am pleased to announce that the Library and Information Services Research
and Instruction Department at Wheaton College (Norton, MA) is looking for a
Digital Asset Curator. Below is a brief description. A full description can
be found at http://jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/ Please forward to anyone who
might be interested!

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Scott Hamlin
Director of Research and Instruction
Library Information Services, Wheaton College



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Wheaton College

Norton, MA

Digital Asset Curator

DESCRIPTION:

The Digital Asset Curator serves as an instructional consultant, a
technology specialist, an educator, and a research partner with an emphasis
on the use and development of online information resources for teaching and
learning, including web-based resources. The position works closely with
faculty and colleagues to develop, administer, and coordinate services
associated with digital assets and learning objects used by faculty and
students of the college, including the college’s teaching collection of
100,000+ digital images (used primarily but not exclusively by the Art and
Art History Department), academic materials for the web, and the college’s
digital repository (maintained in close collaboration with the Archives).

As a member of the Research and Instruction Liaison Team, this position is
also responsible for supporting a variety of activities in support of
teaching, learning, and scholarship. These activities could include
providing research consultations, instructional services, and assisting in
implementing appropriate educational systems and technologies. This
position collaborates with members of LIS to design creative workshops and
teaching sessions for students, faculty, and colleagues.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position develops, manages, and promotes various Wheaton digital
resource services and collections. This includes a teaching-based digital
image collection (currently stored in MDID), a digital repository of
student scholarship, and a digital repository of materials from Archives,
Special Collections, and the Art Collection.

The position also works in partnership with faculty, appropriate colleagues
in LIS, and academic departments to educate, inspire, and support effective
instruction methods and creative work in diverse areas of knowledge through
the use of online information resources and technology.

And the position promotes information and technology fluency in Wheaton’s
students so that they can use information and technology tools and
resources effectively, analytically, ethically, legally, and critically.
Activities in this area may include (depending on skills), serving as
liaison to first-year seminars, providing research consultations with
students, teaching classes related to acquiring information or technology
fluency, and collaborating with library colleagues to evaluate and support
subscription-based digital learning resources (e.g. Artstor).

QUALIFICATIONS:

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   Master’s Degree required
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   Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in an academic setting
   demonstrating progressively increasing responsibility in at least one of
   the following areas : managing digitization projects and platforms,
   developing online information resources, creating digital resources
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   Experience working with digital visual databases like MDID and Artstor
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   Successful teaching and presentation experience


For further information and qualifications consult:
http://jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/

<http://jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/>

APPOINTMENT:  full-time, 12 months

TO APPLY: Upload a letter of application and a resume to:
http://jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/ A review of applications will begin
immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

Wheaton College is a highly selective, residential, coeducational, liberal
arts college that is located 35 miles south of Boston and 20 miles north of
Providence, RI.  The college enrolls approximately 1,500 students from
across the country and around the world. For more information visit Library
and Information Services http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/LIS/ or Wheaton
http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/ on the web.

Wheaton College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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