New HLS Library Project Manager Position for Innovative Projects with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The HLS Library is
moving toward a dynamic and collaborative relationship with the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society with the announcement of two new
project manager positions.
The newly posted Library Technology (LT) Project Manager will be responsible for design, implementation, and management of special and ongoing projects across the HLS Library.
The recently posted Academic Technology (AT) Project Manager will be based in the Teaching, Learning and Curriculum team at the HLS library and coordinate and promote new technologies and digital solutions for legal classrooms.
Both project managers will take part in Berkman Center Geek Hours, learn the latest project management practices and tools, participate in
brainstorming sessions and give feedback for Berkman developers working
to create a new generation of academic digital tools.
“With the library collaborating on projects with the Berkman Center, we
have opportunities for breakthrough innovation we might not be able to
reach separately. The Library Technology Project Manager will work with
Berkman developers and project managers to move from ideas to execution
and back again in a virtuous feedback loop,” said Professor Jonathan Zittrain.
The new LT project manager will be responsible for three major projects currently in development. The first, Perma.cc, a pilot project developed by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, is a web archive solution designed to combat the problem of “link rot,” by creating permanent links for legal and scholarly citations. The new position will also guide activities on the Free the Law project, which
aims to digitize and make available the library’s collection of public
source federal and state case law. Finally, the LT project manager will
collaborate with the HLS academic technology team and Berkman staff to
further develop H2O, a suite of open source, online classroom tools that allows professors to freely develop, remix, and share elements of
online textbooks, casebooks, and modules under a Creative Commons
Attribution Noncommercial, Share Alike License.
We are casting a wide net for these positions. You can learn more details about the Library Technology (LT) Project Manager posting here and the Academic Technology (AT) Project Manager here.
About the HLS Library & the Library Innovation Lab: The
library is housed in the neoclassical Langdell Hall, the largest
building on campus, and is the largest academic law library in the
world. The mission of the library is to support the research and
curricular needs of its faculty and students by providing a superb
collection of legal materials and by offering the highest possible level of service. The library explores and develops new and innovative
technologies for the discovery and delivery of information to the
world. The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a group within the HLS
Library that implements in software ideas about how libraries can be
ever more valuable.
About the Berkman Center: The Berkman Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore
cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R.
Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty,
fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad
range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.harvard.edu.