Job Description
The Digitization Specialist is responsible for the digitization workflows for scanning and improving access to South Carolina State Library collections and partner projects. The Digitization Specialist trains volunteers on scanning best practices and provides quality control for all material digitized; duties include tracking statistics and maintaining scanning equipment.
Job Responsibilities
- Coordinates the daily operations of the digitization workflows, including digitization, color management, quality control activities
- Schedules and trains volunteers
- Digitizes library collection materials, including state documents, South Carolina special collections, and partner project materials
- Manages quality control for scanned library materials and born-digital state documents
- Tracks digitization statistics
- Coordinates overall digital collections workflow, involving digitization, review, coordination with metadata specialists, and hand-offs for ingest into the digital collection
- Maintains digitization priority list with colleagues
- Designs, documents, and oversees efficient digital production workflows supporting the creation of digital objects that conform to digital library standards
- Contributes to the development of policies, guidelines, and best practices; maintains documentation on digitization best practices
- Investigates and recommends digitization hardware and software; monitors and maintains specialized hardware and software to capture, manipulate, and save images
- Participates in department planning
- Performs other duties/functions as requested
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- A high school diploma
- Two (2) years’ experience related to digitization and digitization technologies, including flatbed, feed, and overhead scanners; OCR and image editing software; file formats and standards
- Knowledge of best practices for digitization
- Ability to gather, organize, and present oral and written information in a clear, concise, and accurate manner
- Project management and excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and external partners
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills; ability to communicate with technical and non-technical individuals
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree
- Experience handling special collections
- Experience supervising volunteers and/or graduate students
- Experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Opus FreeFlow, Gimp or other image editor
- Experience handling different formats of archives and special collections materials, including documents, photographs, maps, negatives, slides, film, audio/video tapes
Benefits
- Starting salary range $28,000-$34,000 depending on experience.
- Benefits Include: vacation (15 days per year); sick leave (15 days per year); holidays (13 days per year), standard benefits package and South Carolina State Retirement System.
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted online at www.jobs.sc.gov
Additional Comments
The State Library actively promotes professional development and learning opportunities for staff. Work takes place in an office environment. Overnight travel is not expected for this position, however may be occasionally necessary. Some local travel is expected.
- Supplemental questions are considered part of your official application. Any misrepresentation will result in your disqualification from consideration for employment.
- Please complete the state application to include all current and previous work/salary history and education. A resume will not be accepted nor reviewed in lieu of a completed state application to determine if an applicant has met the qualifications for the position.
- Please include a cover letter, resume, and three professional references. Reference and background check will be conducted.
