Metadata and Collection Services Librarian
Created:
June 30, 2012
Description
As a key member of the Resource Management Services unit, this position will:- Manage all aspects of the cataloging/metadata unit, including planning and procedures, description, processing and preservation. Supervise Metadata and Special Projects specialist and Library specialist, as well as student employees. May also supervise interns or volunteers.
- In coordination with the Associate Director of Resource Management Services, set policy for metadata services.
- Oversee the efficient creation of metadata for library collections in a wide range of formats, both electronic and physical.
- Provide original cataloging as needed; perform complex copy cataloging; subject analysis; classification. Oversee and monitor authority control.
- Collaborate with cataloging efforts and practices in the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a large academic library consortium to which Collins Memorial Library belongs.
- Coordinate and supervise metadata efforts for exposing external university collections to users.
- Collaborate with library colleagues on appropriate metadata planning and implementation for exposing contents of the Institutional Repository, Digital Collections and Archives.
- Monitor national trends in metadata, cataloging and discovery; develop and implement best practices in these areas, particularly RDA and FRBR.
- Thoroughly understand and exploit the cataloging module of the integrated library system, its relation to other discovery systems and consider its effects on users in determining procedures.
- Develop crosswalks to convert data from one metadata schema to another with minimal manual intervention.
- Actively participate in regional consortia, pursue continuing education and professional development opportunities.
- Foster a work environment of productivity, assessment based planning and user centered practices.
- Provide and/or organize training to keep appropriate staff current in job responsibilities and metadata skills.
- Maintain essential records and statistics and prepare reports as needed.
- Other duties as may be assigned by the Associate Director of Resource Management Services.
Required:
- Graduate degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited institution.
- Demonstrated training or experience working in cataloging/metadata.
- Demonstrated understanding of metadata principles and practices, such as those found in AACR2, RDA, Dublin Core and other emerging metadata schemes.
- Demonstrated experience working with a bibliographic utility.
- Awareness of current issues and trends in metadata development.
- Ability to collaborate with others in designing and facilitating work processes across unit lines.
- Ability to function effectively in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, time management and communication skills.
- A commitment to quality service and to the ideals of a liberal arts education.
- Demonstrated potential to be an effective supervisor.
- Cataloging experience in a library-work environment, preferably academic.
- Experience with content standards RDA, AACR2 and with FRBR concepts.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of classification standards LCSH and SuDocs.
- Demonstrated experience working within a large, widely-used Integrated Library System (ILS) platform.
- Demonstrated experience manipulating standards-based (such as MARC, XML) metadata using lower-level utilities (MarcEdit, oXygen) or scripting languages (such as Perl, PHP, XSL).
- Demonstrated understanding of digital collections and the tools used to work with them.
- Second language familiarity (Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish or German preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to supervise and mentor employees.
How to apply
http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=20333
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Published: Saturday, June 30, 2012 01:31 UTC
Last updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 23:47 UTC