> See link for more information: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/node/7826 > > Position available to Non-librarians > To make available a wide range of digital multimedia resources to the > university community through digitization and manipulation of materials from > university and personal collections. Collaborate closely with other staff and > with faculty and graduate student users to provide access to these materials > for teaching. Submissions with cover letters are highly recommended. This is > a 3-year position (with the possibility of renewal). > > Responsibilities: > Effectively carry out digitization of visual materials using a range of > digital capture hardware, including slide and flatbed scanners and face-up > scanning and photography equipment. Perform image enhancement and correction > after digitization. Convert and manage digital media files, applying > compression and other transformations as appropriate. Perform QC and review > image standards. Digitize audio and video for course support. Assist with > Books Digitization workflow and with managing born digital content. Assist in > monitoring and managing departmental computing resources, including shared > network storage. Help maintain departmental tracking databases for > digitization jobs and descriptive databases to manage digital assets. Test > new systems and systems under development. Serve as backup for other > departmental services. > Required Qualifications: > 1. Bachelor?s degree or the equivalent education, experience, and training > from which comparable skills can be acquired. 2. Advanced working knowledge > of digital imaging hardware and software, including Adobe Photoshop. 3. Basic > familiarity with image quality evaluation, color management and color > correction. > Preferred Qualifications: > 1. Previous museum, visual resources, or academic or research library > experience. 2. Previous experience with mass image digitization and/or > digitization on demand. 3. College level course work in Art, Art History, > Photography, Film, Digital multimedia or a related field.
