Stanford Libraries is seeking a full-time Newspaper Digitization Project Manager to join the Directors Office for a fixed term position, potentially to September 2031. Working closely with Collection Development managers, International and Area Studies Curators, East Asia Library Bibliographers and staff, Technical Services managers, Facilities staff, Digital Production Group managers, Hoover Institution Archives and Library Curators and Preservation staff, the Newspaper Digitization Project Manager (NDPM) will serve as SUL’s primary point of contact with an external vendor, who will carry out the digitization of SUL’s historical newspaper collections. The focus of the project involves newspaper holdings that are housed in two storage facilities, the Newark warehouse and SAL3 [Stanford Auxiliary Library-3], plus complementary newspaper holdings held by the Hoover Institution Archives and Library, and their replacement by digital surrogates. An external vendor will be responsible for digitizing the newspapers, clearing rights with publishers when possible, and marketing the digital product for wider dissemination. The NDPM will be the logistical liaison with the vendor and with other SUL units that are responsible for processing, packing, and shipping of these materials. The NDPM also facilitates communications between the vendor and other SUL units, regarding post-production quality control of digital files, and the delivery of metadata records for the digitized titles.
