Marriott Library Jobs

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not have followed a traditional educational or professional path. We are interested in identifying and interviewing candidates with experience and expertise that will contribute to advancing our mission to provide everyone with access to information resources and educational opportunities.

Academic Librarian Positions

Digital Initiatives Librarian (Assistant or Associate Librarian)

Do you find the idea of making unique primary source materials accessible to researchers exciting? The Digital Library Services Division at the J. Willard Marriott Library seeks a detail-oriented and collaborative individual to create metadata for digital collections, manage our digital exhibits program, and share their metadata expertise within the library and our digital exhibit partners. This person joins a team dedicated to creating descriptive metadata for the long-standing and innovative Digital Library program at the Marriott Library. The library also has engaging collaboration opportunities with Special Collections, our research data program, digital scholarship center, Digital Matters, and more. As the University embarks upon new strategic directions, this is an exciting time at the University of Utah.

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Resource Description Coordinator (Assistant or Associate Librarian)

Are you a problem solver passionate about collaborating with colleagues to describe and make scholarly resources available to stakeholders for a thriving community of students, faculty, and researchers? The Collections and Scholarly Communication Division at the J. Willard Marriott Library seeks a meticulous and flexible individual to lead the cataloging and processing of library materials, providing original and complex cataloging, leadership, and consultation for resource description in metadata schemas for resources in all formats. This person provides long-term strategies to deal with MARC metadata initiatives and provides direction for staff in techniques and new methodologies. As the University embarks upon new strategic directions, this is an exciting time at the University of Utah.

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Benefited Staff Positions

Night Services Support Supervisor

f you are looking for an exciting opportunity to support an academic library by managing library operations related to information services, circulation, facility management, and health & safety during evening hours, this job may be for you. Duties include handling information and reference inquiries in person, over the phone, and through chat. Additionally, this position helps maintain the library productivity environment by supporting service inquiries and referral services for ProtoSpace, the Knowledge Commons, and specialty reference.

Because of the mix of duties and responsibilities in this position, we are seeking applicants interested in learning new skills, raising the level of service, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

This position is required to work on campus full-time. Telecommuting will only be authorized for occasional/exceptional circumstances.

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Student Positions

Please note: For the Marriott Library to be able to appropriately monitor hours worked, part-time employees are generally asked to restrict their work with the University of Utah to Library employment only, unless an exception is granted. Please contact Carson McCall for questions about this policy.

 

Knowledge Commons Desk Staff 

Serve students, staff, and faculty in the Knowledge Commons, the Marriott Library’s central service point for technology and reference assistance. Work with a team of students and library staff to answer questions in a variety of areas including campus and library services, research, computer software, printing, mobile device configuration, classroom support, and equipment checkout.

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Digital Preservation Assistant

Our small team is responsible for the digital preservation of born-digital and digitized records from all over Utah. We preserve thousands of files per week. As Digital Preservation Assistant, you will gain, or build on, experience with Excel spreadsheets as you prepare files and their metadata for ingest into the Digital Preservation System (DPS). As you work with large batches of files in various formats, you will prepare metadata on spreadsheets and have the chance to work with simple utilities such as bulk renaming tools and command line utilities. You will also gain experience ingesting digital objects into our DPS and performing a variety of actions within the software as you help us create order out of digital chaos. If you are interested in joining our busy team, apply today!

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Internships and Other Opportunities

None at the moment. Please check back later.