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Educate and provide guidance to college employees about records management for institutional records in both analog and digital formats.\n\nWork collaboratively with the College Archivist to appraise, accession, process, arrange, describe, preserve, and provide access to digitized and born-digital records in Special Collections according to archival standards and best practices.\n\nAct as local expert on digital preservation systems, tools, and processes, and digital asset management and preservation, providing policy advice and guidance on the lifecycle management of digital collections to the college community.\n\nDefine, grow, enhance, and manage a suite of tools and services that promote sustainable and scalable digital collections, and determine requirements and specifications for digital assets the library creates or acquires.\n\nProvide technical expertise with regards to digitization workflows.\n\nCoordinate the transfer of digital materials from a variety of current and legacy media formats such as tapes, floppy disks, CDs, and hard drives.\n\nPrepare digitized and born-digital materials for preservation ingest, stabilization, and storage in accordance with best practices and industry standards.\n\nActively contribute to departmental operations, including reading room supervision, events, instruction, exhibitions, reference, outreach, and student supervision.\n\nRequirements\n\nMLIS from an ALA-accredited program or its equivalent in work experience, education, and training.\n\nOne to three years of experience in a research library preferred, including one or more years’ experience building or managing digital library collections using a content management or digital preservation platform (ex: Drupal, Internet Archive Vault and Archive-It, Preservica).\n\nExperience with archival content management systems such as ArchivesSpace and the Internet Archive; and digital preservation systems such as Internet Archive Vault.\n\nDeep functional and technical understanding of digital repository and content management systems, born-digital archives, digital preservation models, and digitization standards and best practices.\n\nFamiliarity with current toolkits and processes used in web, email, and social media archiving.\n\nKnowledge of archival description standards (EAD, DACS) and authority control, subject analysis, and controlled vocabularies.\n\nKnowledge of metadata standards and creation (MARC, MODS, METS, Dublin Core).\n\nPreferred proficiency in emerging uses of AI in archival processing, Python or equivalent programming language, and familiarity with relevant code libraries for bulk text processing, CSV, XML, JSON, OAI-PMH, ArchivesSpace API, Internet Archive API, etc.\n\nWorking knowledge of legacy computing platforms, file formats, storage devices, and emulation.\n\nExperience integrating principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion into archival activities.\n\nHow to apply\nhttps://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/8C8180846A/\n\nContact\nKaitlin Buerge\nkbuerge@middlebury.edu\n\nMetadata\nPublished: Thursday, December 4, 2025 07:34 UTC\n\nLast updated: Thursday, December 4, 2025 07:34 UTC\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Code4lib","rawCompany":"code4lib","city":"Middlebury","state":"VT","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T03:15:10.552Z","occupations":[{"code":"25-4011.00","title":"Archivists","slug":"archivists"},{"code":"15-1299.03","title":"Document Management Specialists","slug":"document-management-specialists"},{"code":"25-4022.00","title":"Librarians and Media Collections Specialists","slug":"librarians-and-media-collections-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"519210","title":"Libraries and Archives","slug":"libraries-and-archives"},{"code":"712110","title":"Museums","slug":"museums"},{"code":"611310","title":"Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools","slug":"colleges-universities-and-professional-schools"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Digital Records Archivist","description":"Description\nThe Digital Records Archivist is responsible for the accessioning, processing, arrangement, description, preservation, and access of digitized and born-digital materials according to archival standards and best practices. 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