[SOA] Job Posting: NDNP Project Coordinator, Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio)

[Angela O'Neal]

The Ohio Historical Society, located in Columbus, Ohio, seeks a Project Coordinator for a National Digital Newspaper Project grant. The Project Coordinator is responsible for managing the newspaper digitization project, including overseeing all selection, technical and administrative activities, assisting in the design and development of the project web site, monitoring budget, and managing relationships with external partners and vendors. Essential duties and responsibilities include: 

•	Manages project staff and coordinates project workflow.
•	Works with Advisory Board members, the Library of Congress, staff at other institutions to develop Ohio Newspaper Project. Works with vendors to ensure quality deliverables and negotiate budgetary issues.
•	Oversees the selection, digitization, metadata capture, OCR, workflow control, quality control, and other activities involved in digitizing historic newspapers.
•	Manage the development of the project website.
•	In coordination with and under the supervision of the Project Director, assists in managing the project budget.
•	Responsible for reporting of microfilm selection data and digital deliverables fulfillment.
•	Creates documentation for newspaper digitization project and prepares project reports.
•	Responds to public, professional and scholarly inquiries. 
•	Other duties as assigned.

Candidates should have a master’s degree in library of information science or a closely related field, plus three or more years of professional-level information systems experience in an archives, library, museum or corporate environment. Equally important are strong communication skills, organizational ability and willingness to embrace innovation and change. Experience and a solid understanding of digitization and/or microfilm conversion projects; microfilm procedures; metadata standards; and principles governing standards in digital libraries required. 
  
This position is funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to the Ohio Historical Society to begin digitization of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers. The Ohio Newspaper Digitization Project, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program developed by NEH and the Library of Congress, will digitize 100,000 Ohio newspaper pages between the year of 1880 and 1922 during the two-year grant period. Newspapers digitized as part of the grant award will be included in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America database at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica.

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The Ohio Historical Society is a drug-free workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.


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Angela O'Neal
Digital Projects Manager 
Ohio Historical Society 
(614) 297-2576 
www.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib/

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