OU Libraries Jobs
The University of Oklahoma Libraries is transforming the way our community thinks about and interacts with research libraries. The OU Libraries’ award-winning facilities and resources create opportunities for faculty and students to excel in any field. We seek to create excellence in the library experience, to support campus research and data stewardship, to build on the excellence of our special collections, and to promote scholarly communication. We invest in our organization by recruiting individuals committed to superior user experience and by actively strengthening and expanding our skills and capabilities. We invite you to join the OU Libraries in serving as the intellectual crossroads of the University and providing access to informational resources that fulfill the academic, research, artistic, scholarly and community leadership objectives of the university and lead to lifelong knowledge creation.
If you would like to be a part of a team of highly skilled professional and academic librarians who are reshaping what a top-tier academic research library can be, we invite you to apply for any of our open positions at jobs.ou.edu.
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Project Archivist for Architectural Records Digitization
The Project Archivist for Architectural Records Digitization is a term-appointed, 1-year project position at the University of Oklahoma Libraries that will focus on preparing architectural records of significant cultural, historical, and research value to be digitized and made openly accessible online via OU Libraries’ digital collections repository. The Project Archivist’s work will focus specifically on archival collections in the American School Archive at OU Libraries, an archival collecting area that documents the imaginative school of architectural design and practice that developed under the guidance of pioneering architects Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, and others at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on established criteria and priorities, this position will make informed selections of archival collection items from fully processed collections to be digitized and published online, documenting these decisions in project spreadsheets. The Project Archivist will work with archival materials including physical architectural drawings, print publications, paper records, and photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Requisition #251833
Institutional Repository Librarian
The University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries seeks an innovative, collaborative, and highly motivated individual to serve as OU’s Institutional Repository Librarian of SHAREOK™, the joint institutional repository for OU and the University of Central Oklahoma. SHAREOK™ is hosted on DSpace, a free, open-source software system by OU Libraries, and it currently contains more than 40,000 items, encompassing faculty and staff publications, student works, and open educational resources. This position develops, implements, and assesses policies, workflows, and documentation to streamline the mediated deposit of faculty, staff, and student scholarship in SHAREOK™ and improve the user experience, in collaboration with colleagues. Reporting to the Director of Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication within OU Libraries, the Institutional Repository Librarian will be integral to increasing awareness and uptake of SHAREOK™ in support of the OU-Norman Open Access policy, thereby broadening access to the research output of OU. Requisition #251897
Interlibrary Loan Lending Assistant
Reporting to the Interlibrary Loan Manager, the Interlibrary Loan Lending Assistant is a staff position in the Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Unit of the Storage and Delivery department of University Libraries. The incumbent performs clerical and technical duties and is responsible for day-to-day operations of interlibrary loan lending including processing of requests and renewals; assisting library users; overseeing the work of student employees in collaboration with other unit staff; and working collaboratively with other library departments, branch libraries, special collections and borrowing institutions worldwide. Requisition #252158
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