Job Tittle:Special Collections Librarian for Book Science (Librarian III; CLTA) Date Posted: 04/29/2025 Closing Date:05/29/2025 Req ID: 42627 Job Category:Librarian : Contractually Limited Term Appointment Faculty/Division:Library Department:Rare Books and Spec Collect Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) Are you looking for challenging, meaningful work in a supportive and diverse environment? Are you looking for a career at one of Canada's top employers? Work where the world comes to think, discover and learn. Consider a career at the University of Toronto. About the University of Toronto Libraries The University of Toronto Libraries system is the largest academic library in Canada and is consistently ranked in the top ten among academic research libraries in North America. The system consists of 40 libraries located on three university campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough. This array of college libraries, special collections, and specialized libraries and information centres supports the teaching and research requirements of over 300 graduate programs, more than 70 professional programs, and about 700 undergraduate degree programs. In addition to more than 12 million volumes in 341 languages, the library system currently provides access to millions of electronic resources in various forms and over 31,000 linear metres of archival material. More than 150,000 new print volumes are acquired each year. The Libraries data centre houses more than 600 servers with a storage capacity of 1.5 petabytes. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is home to one of the largest repositories of publicly accessible rare books, special collections, and archives in Canada. The print, manuscript, and archival collections are many and varied, reflecting the wide diversity of teaching and research conducted at the University of Toronto. The Fisher Library holds materials ranging from ancient papyrus fragments to contemporary artists' books, with many manuscript and print traditions from around the world strongly represented. The extensive archival collections focus on the papers of Canadian authors and cultural figures. Areas of strength include Canadian history and literature, European literature and philosophy, Hebraica and Judaica, Theology, the history and art of the book, the history of science and medicine, history of leftist politics, labour, and social movements, Latin American studies, and Islamic manuscripts. The Library provides research support and collections services to interdisciplinary projects fostering new scientific and global approaches to medieval book history and literary studies; digital text editing and computational approaches to humanities research; and library and archival methods. Book Science projects are interdisciplinary collaborations that surface hidden aspects of books' histories, materials, structures, texts, and accretions over time through the application of technologies and methods developed in the natural, computational, conservation and other sciences. Examples might include the use of multispectral imaging to recover faded or erased text in a water:damaged manuscript; the collection of loose peptides from the surface of a page to determine the animal species of a parchment document using mass spectrometry; the use of micro:computed tomography to study a book's internal structure; spectral analyses to characterize the chemical signatures of a range of inks and pigments; or the training of a machine learning algorithm to read a digitized document written in an under:resourced language. Position description: The University of Toronto Libraries seeks a highly organized, flexible, and innovative Special Collections Librarian to work in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library to support various Book Science projects, including the Mark Andrews Hub for Book Science and the Hidden