Career Opportunities
Recipients of the Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries are uniquely prepared for the planning, creation, and management of digital information repositories and services, either within or outside of established libraries. Digital librarians graduate from the certificate program with knowledge of digital library theories and technologies, hands-on experience in the planning and development of digital libraries, and an understanding of emerging trends in digital libraries from social, political, and cultural perspectives.
The certificate program prepares students for careers as:
- Cyber-Infrastructure Librarians
- Digital Initiatives Librarians
- Metadata Librarians
- Taxonomists
- Web Services Librarians
Job duties may include:
- Building and maintaining taxonomies and ontologies
- Creating Web-based resources and tools
- Developing highly usable library web sites
- Investigating new ways to retrieve and make available relevant information from outside traditional library resources
- Keeping current with the latest information technologies, including wikis, information portals, and XML
- Overseeing the process of digitization of various types of materials including print, slides, photographs, maps, scores, recorded music, and others
- Designing and maintaining metadata standards and schemas and applying these standards and schema to generate and manage descriptive, technical, and administrative metadata records and repositories
- Teaching classes in computer and digital literacy skills
Career Services
The high rate of job placement success reflects both the demand for graduates and the effective career planning support provided by the coordinated efforts of the School of Information Studies'
Office of Career Planning and Syracuse University's
Center for Career Services.