What is the structure of a digital collections team?

I am looking for info on large academic libraries which have a dedicated digital collections team (made up of digitization, metadata, web services, data visualization, etc.) - essentially, folks who focus on working with researchers to meet their needs as opposed to work that happens through large scale or public-driven digitization requests.

Who makes up the team and what is the reporting structure?

jambina

digital-collections
digitization

Comments

ksclarke: I think this varies a lot even within the focus of large academic libraries. It's probably hard to give a definitive answer without finding some survey of academic libraries with digitization programs. It will vary, too, for libraries that task existing teams (cataloging, etc.) vs. for libraries that make a digitization team a distinct/new team (for instance, introducing "metadata" librarians).
AaronC: The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards & Practices Working Group has recently completed a "staffing survey" that answers this in part. The results were presented these results at the iPres conference in Toronto. I'm not adding this as an answer because, well--proceedings are forthcoming.

Answer by Joe Montibello

AaronC's answer inspired me to go see if that group had publicized its findings. Here's a poster they did:

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/NDSA-staff-survey-poster-ipres2012.pdf