Managing Digitization Activities · 101
Ohio University
management of equipment and budget. Will contract with outside vendors and service
agencies who provide equipment and services (such as off-site digital image production).
VII. Staff Responsibility
A. Indicate the advisory capacity of your position where others must rely upon data
you submit, recommendations you make or services you provide.
Provides recommendations, information, support, and training for the library’s digital initiatives
plan.
If assigned an area of bibliographic responsibility, that academic unit relies upon this position
for advice concerning collection development, selection, budget management, and library
procedures.
B. Discuss the impact on the University when your recommendations are followed or
services utilized, and when they are not.
A coordinated digital initiative will provide 24/7, world-wide availability of information
resources, some of which may be unique and rare cultural materials that are otherwise
inaccessible it will provide a range of high quality, networked resources for the OU community
and beyond.
Lack of central coordination impedes the opportunity for the Libraries to efficiently and
strategically provide universal access and preservation of important collections.
Delays, poor fund management, and lost opportunities occur when there is no mechanism for
decision-making regarding digitization of collections.
C. If you counsel and advise others, give the nature and frequency.
Position works closely with library administration and other staff engaged in digitization
efforts. Frequency: daily.
VIII. Funds, Property and Other Resources
A. Describe, if applicable, the responsibility of this position for decisions that directly
affect the financial success of the University through the conservation, protection
and effective use of the University’s current and potential assets such as operating
budget, revenue, expenditures or other financial resources.
Management of the Libraries’ digital assets will support the University in achieving the first of
the President’s overall goals: to become a nationally prominent research university.
As bibliographer, may be responsible for library acquisition funds allocated to area of
bibliographic assignment.
B. What is the total value of that responsibility, in dollars?
The impact of stewardship of the Libraries’ collections cannot be easily measured in monetary
terms.
Ohio University
management of equipment and budget. Will contract with outside vendors and service
agencies who provide equipment and services (such as off-site digital image production).
VII. Staff Responsibility
A. Indicate the advisory capacity of your position where others must rely upon data
you submit, recommendations you make or services you provide.
Provides recommendations, information, support, and training for the library’s digital initiatives
plan.
If assigned an area of bibliographic responsibility, that academic unit relies upon this position
for advice concerning collection development, selection, budget management, and library
procedures.
B. Discuss the impact on the University when your recommendations are followed or
services utilized, and when they are not.
A coordinated digital initiative will provide 24/7, world-wide availability of information
resources, some of which may be unique and rare cultural materials that are otherwise
inaccessible it will provide a range of high quality, networked resources for the OU community
and beyond.
Lack of central coordination impedes the opportunity for the Libraries to efficiently and
strategically provide universal access and preservation of important collections.
Delays, poor fund management, and lost opportunities occur when there is no mechanism for
decision-making regarding digitization of collections.
C. If you counsel and advise others, give the nature and frequency.
Position works closely with library administration and other staff engaged in digitization
efforts. Frequency: daily.
VIII. Funds, Property and Other Resources
A. Describe, if applicable, the responsibility of this position for decisions that directly
affect the financial success of the University through the conservation, protection
and effective use of the University’s current and potential assets such as operating
budget, revenue, expenditures or other financial resources.
Management of the Libraries’ digital assets will support the University in achieving the first of
the President’s overall goals: to become a nationally prominent research university.
As bibliographer, may be responsible for library acquisition funds allocated to area of
bibliographic assignment.
B. What is the total value of that responsibility, in dollars?
The impact of stewardship of the Libraries’ collections cannot be easily measured in monetary
terms.
