[SOA] Job Posting: NDNP Quality Control Technician, Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio)

[Angela O'Neal]

Job Posting: NDNP Quality Control Technician, Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio)

The Ohio Historical Society, located in Columbus, Ohio, seeks a part-time (20 hours per week) Quality Control Technician for a National Digital Newspaper Project grant. The Quality Control Technician is responsible for performing quality control and assistance for newspaper digitization projects. Essential duties and responsibilities include: 

•	Performs quality assurance on images, metadata, OCR and other deliverables for a newspaper digitization project. 
•	Creates documentation for newspaper digitization project.
•	Prepares materials for the project’s advisory board.
•	Assists with tracking, presenting, and reporting of microfilm selection data and digital deliverables fulfillment.
•	Assists with preparation of microfilm for newspaper digitization project.
•	Other duties as assigned.

Candidates should have an associate’s degree in history, library or information science or a related discipline or equivalent related experience, plus one to three years experience with digitization projects. 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.

Please do not respond to this message. For more information and instructions for applying, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/about/jobs/. 
 
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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