Serials Specialist and Lead Metadata Analyst

Description

A recently awarded grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to continue to expand its analysis and planning to shape a data-centered international strategy for archiving and digitizing historical journals and newspapers.

We are seeking a creative, self directed professional with project management & team-lead capabilities focused on achieving top-notch results and meeting production objectives. Position involves collaborating closely with internal database teams as well as outside partners & publishers to develop standards of metadata capture, creation and normalization of bibliographic and holdings data for serials and newspapers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing & monitoring processes for ensuring existing metadata is accurate and complete and coordinating the augmentation of existing data as necessary
• Develop and implement a system to verify accuracy of all required data fields in incoming records.
• Working with data sources to improve the quality of data as needed.
• Investigate opportunities  to expand capability of existing databases and opportunities in linked data environment
• Provide guidance to a team of metadata specialists and data entry personnel.
• Monitoring production to ensure project goals are met.
• Ensuring data analysis team’s goals and tasks are recorded in project management software and that team members use software to log progress or record notes.
• Creating regular written project reports.

Requirements:

• Strong analytical skills, with experience analyzing dataflow, data patterns and work flow.
• Prior project management and team lead experience.
• MLS or MLIS required
• A minimum of 3 years serials cataloging experience, CONSER level preferred
• Expertise developing and maintaining databases
• Experience using PERL, JAVA or other programming languages to normalize text and applying API’s to harvest or capture data.
• Ability to document and explain standards