Head Librarian for AI, Digital Init & Schlr

Role

The Head, Librarian for AI, Digital Initiatives, and Scholarship leads and advances the library’s digital services, positioning the library as a hub for interdisciplinary inquiry, experimentation, and scholarly innovation. The role focuses on knowledge design, data-informed research, and the responsible integration of AI across the research and teaching lifecycle, working closely with faculty, students, and campus partners.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Scholarship & Cultural Analytics

• Lead and support computational cultural initiatives such as text analysis, digital exhibits, spatial humanities, digital archives, and multimodal scholarship.
• Consult on project design, tool selection, workflows, metadata, copyright, and sustainability.
• Support digital publishing platforms (e.g., Omeka, Scalar, Pressbooks, Reclaim).
• Partner with Special Collections and Archives to develop digitally enhanced research projects using primary sources.

Artificial Intelligence in Research & Teaching

• Develop and lead workshops, guides, and training to foster AI literacy and responsible integration of AI tools into research and academic writing.
• Support ethical and effective use of AI across discovery, analysis, writing, data visualization, and digital creation.
• Provide guidance on transparency, attribution, bias, copyright, and academic integrity in AI use.
• Collaborate with faculty to integrate AI-informed research methods into coursework and assignments.
• Monitor and evaluate emerging AI technologies relevant to libraries, scholarship, and pedagogy.

Instruction & Consultation

• Create learning materials, tutorials, and documentation to support scalable, inclusive access to digital scholarship tools.
• Collaborate with subject librarians to embed digital and AI literacies into the curriculum.

Digital Infrastructure & Project Development

• Participate in selection, implementation, and assessment of digital platforms, tools, and services supporting scholarship.
• Contribute to project planning, grant development, and external funding opportunities related to digital scholarship and humanities.
• Advocate for sustainable, accessible, and interoperable digital infrastructure.

Collaboration & Campus Engagement

• Work with partners across campus, including University Technology and Instructional Design.
• Lead the Technology Fellows project, supervising and mentoring a team of 5–8 student workers who support classroom digital tools.
• Participate in library-wide planning on digital strategy and emerging technologies; contribute to professional service and program assessment.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• ALA-accredited Master’s degree in library and information science or equivalent terminal degree in a relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience engaging with evolving AI tools to support faculty and students in ethical adoption.
• Demonstrated experience supporting digital scholarship, Digital Humanities, or related digital research initiatives.
• Experience providing instruction, consultations, or workshops in an academic setting.
• Strong collaborative, communication, and project management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of AI platforms and concepts (including vibe coding and bot construction) as applied to academic research, teaching, or libraries.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and R and frameworks like scikit-learn, Hugging Face, and TensorFlow.
• Experience with Special Collections, archives, or primary source materials in digital contexts.
• Familiarity with copyright, intellectual property, and ethical considerations in digital and AI-enabled scholarship.
• Experience with Digital Humanities/cultural analytics tools and methods (text mining, data visualization, GIS, photogrammetry, Storymaps, Timelinejs, text analysis).
• Experience with tools and platforms such as Omeka, Zotero, GitHub, Photoshop/GIMP/Inkscape, Audacity, OpenRefine, Pressbooks, Scalar, Reclaim, and others.
• Ability to contribute to a Digital Humanities curriculum and collaborate with instructional designers.

Location & Timing

• Primarily an on-site, in-person position at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
• Scheduled to begin July 1, 2026.