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The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) is seeking a Digital Conversion Production Manager (2-year term appointment) to manage the DLPS Digital Conversion Unit (DCU). The DCU is responsible for digital conversion of library collections working with monograph, serial, newspaper, photograph, and manuscript collections. The DCU converts on average 5,000 volumes per year, and is committed to high-volume, efficient digitization. The DCU also works closely with the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) on digitizing materials to be published by SPO, and the DCU staff work closely with library selectors, archivists and special collections librarians in developing cost estimates for digitization projects.

The Digital Conversion Production Manager supervises a unit of 7 professionals, and part-time workers and student assistants, including technicians for digital capture and conversion of textual materials and continuous tone images. The incumbent is responsible for establishing departmental priorities and long-range unit planning.

The Digital Conversion Production Manager develops and maintains a productive and cost effective processing operation which is responsive to the needs of other library units and library users. The workflow for digital conversion needs to be reevaluated due to several factors: the University Library's partnership with Google; changes in the organizational structure of the DCU; and the DLPS's commitment to the principles expressed in the Trusted Digital Repository report issued by RLG and OCLC. Quality control
should be strengthened with more automated processes, and documentation and vendor specifications need to be rewritten in response to these factors.

More information is available at: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hr/employment/digitalconversion.html