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As our Digital Stewardship Librarian, you'll be that person: the expert who shapes how we describe, protect, and share our collections, and who helps the campus community get the most from them.\n\nYou’ll join the Special Collections and Archives Department, report to the Director, and work with library colleagues and partners across the college. If you're a recent graduate with a degree in digital librarianship or something similar, this is a great place to make your mark.\n\nWhat you'll do\nKeep our digital collections safe and sustainable\n\nPrepare digitized and born-digital materials for ingest, stabilization, and storage, following best practices and archival standards\n\nServe as the primary administrator of Kenyon's repository platform, Digital Kenyon (Digital Commons), and related preservation tools, building the processes to describe, ingest, publish, manage, migrate, and preserve our digital objects\n\nBe the go-to expert on preservation systems, digitization workflows, and lifecycle management, and advise on the policies that guide them\n\nShape our digital strategy and bring projects to life\n\nGrow and manage the tools and services that keep our digital collections scalable, and define requirements for the digital assets we create or acquire\n\nPartner with faculty and campus stakeholders on grants, research, and course-integrated projects\n\nLead digital projects from plan to delivery, translating between technical and non-technical audiences so everyone knows the goals, timelines, and deliverables\n\nTeach and consult: train faculty, students, and staff, and help them put digital tools to work\n\nExplore new preservation and institutional repository platforms with your colleagues, and migrate content between systems when the time comes\n\nConnect with students and faculty\n\nServe as liaison to academic programs, potentially in data, computing, and math connected disciplines\n\nTeach in courses, hold research consultations, and develop discipline-specific resources\n\nWork with faculty and students on information, digital, and AI literacy\n\nGrow with the profession\n\nRepresent Kenyon in the OhioLINK and The Five Colleges of Ohio consortia\n\nAttend conferences, workshops, and seminars to keep learning\n\nTrack usage of digital resources, share best practices with colleagues, and recommend purchases to library leadership\n\nWhat you bring\nRequired\n\nAn ALA-accredited master's degree in library science or equivalent, completed by June 2027, or a related degree plus library experience\n\nEducation or experience in digital collections, digitization, born-digital archives, digital preservation, metadata, or related work in a library, archive, museum, cultural heritage organization, or similar setting\n\nWe'll be especially excited about\n\nHands-on experience with digital collections or repositories, especially using Digital Commons\n\nKnowledge of current metadata schemes and standards\n\nStrong communication and organizational skills, including clear documentation processes\n\nFamiliarity with trends in digital libraries, digitization standards, preservation, and rights management\n\nComfort working independently and as part of a team\n\nA knack for learning new technologies quickly and teaching them to others, whatever their technical background\n\n$58,000–$64,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications.\n\nAbout Kenyon\nKenyon College is a nationally prominent, private liberal arts college where academic excellence goes hand in hand with a strong sense of community and close relationships among students and professors.\n\nCompensation and Benefits\nSalaries at Kenyon are competitive and commensurate with experience. In addition to an attractive salary, Kenyon offers benefits for employees and their family members. Children of employees are eligible for 100% tuition waivers at Kenyon, and through the Great Lakes Colleges Association , children of employees are eligible for 90% tuition waivers at twenty-three other of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges.\n\nWe also offer health, dental and vision insurance, TIAA retirement, and many other benefits , including provisions for a spouse, families, and domestic partners. Details about benefits as well as conditions of employment are described more fully in our Staff Handbook .\n\nKenyon is a unique place to live and work. To discover why it should be your next home, click here .\n\nKenyon College is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified individuals. 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