Digital Library Development â Team Lead The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, one of the world's premier digital scientific libraries, is seeking a lead for its Digital Library Development Team, a team of application programmers and technically inclined librarians, to provide vision regarding architecture and functionality through both coordination and direct involvement in the development of the technical infrastructure for preservation, management and delivery of scientific and technical institutional digital content.
The incumbent will lead projects aimed at tackling challenges of information interoperability and integration across our large scale and complex digital collection, which includes > 95M bibliographic records, and numerous growing repositories of institutional digital content that align with the LANL national security science mission and build on emergent e-research needs of our community. Responsibilities: ⢠Provide clear vision, direction, and strong leadership in areas of responsibility, including reviewing existing digital library tools and information structures and planning and implementing enhancements and goals for future integration and delivery of on-line services; ⢠Provide administrative oversight, including supervising, coaching, and supporting the Research Libraryâs Development Team, to foster an environment that encourages creativity and innovation, professional growth and development, and collaboration across teams. ⢠Oversee development and expansion of new strategies that expand the libraryâs services, such as discovery and workflow management of scholarly content, and collection and curation of digital institutional materials. ⢠Investigate and work with other groups in the Library, at the Laboratory, and potentially across the DOE Complex and academic communities, and implement, as appropriate, next-generation tools. ⢠Engage in understanding user satisfaction and user knowledge of Library technical capabilities and electronic services, and take appropriate actions by assisting management in proposing, planning, and implementing policies, processes, and methods for improving Library integration into the research community across the Laboratory. ⢠Contribute to overall library planning and operations as a member of the Management Team. ⢠Serve as an advocate for the Research Library and represent the library in Laboratory and industry activities. Required Skills: ⢠Demonstrated experience with designing and developing resource-centric applications that adhere to core architectural principles of the Web including the Web Architecture and REST; ⢠Experience with standards from the digital library community (OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, OpenURL, SRU/W, etc.); ⢠Demonstrated experience with standard web programming tools/frameworks (Java, Perl, php, Python, Ajax, etc) and database query syntax (SQL/mySQL); ⢠Demonstrated experience with using mainstream Web 2.0 technologies (HTTP, RSS, XML, JSON, Atom, RESTful APIs); ⢠Ongoing interest in Semantic Web technologies and concepts including RDF, RDFS, OWL, triple stores, SPARQL, etc., and embrace of concepts from Social Web activities and Linked Data; ⢠Demonstrated ability to lead complex and cross-organizational projects; ⢠Ability to effectively supervise, train, and motivate staff. ⢠Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills including communication and presentation skills, both written and oral. ⢠Applicants must have the ability to obtain an Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship. Education: Master's degree in Library/Information Science or Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience. Clearance: Q (Position will be cleared to this level) â this generally requires US Citizenship. Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter. For more information or to apply online, please go to: http://www.hr.lanl.gov/JobListing/SingleJobAd.aspx?JobNumber=220018
