Position Available - Metadata and Digital Production Librarian

["Candace Lebel" <Candace dot Lebel at libraries dot claremont dot edu>]

Metadata and Digital Production Librarian 

Claremont University Consortium ● Libraries of The Claremont Colleges

 

 

Primary Purpose:  Metadata and Digital Production Librarian at the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges will serve as resident authority on existing and emerging metadata schemas; catalog digital objects selected for the Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL); serve on the CCDL steering committee; oversee creation of digital objects and their inclusion into the CCDL; and create and maintain CCDL best practices documentation. This position reports to the Digital Initiatives Librarian.

 

Essential Functions: The Metadata and Digital Production Librarian will:

*	Collaborate with Special Collections, subject specialists, catalogers, and other library staff to select appropriate schemas for descriptive, structural and administrative metadata and authority controls for CCDL collections.
*	Catalog digital objects of primary resources in all formats for dissemination in the CCDL.
*	Participate on the CCDL steering committee charged with identifying, reviewing and selecting hardware and software for a digital asset management system and with implementing CCDL policies, guidelines and best practices. 
*	Identify, create and maintain documentation on best practices for creating and preserving digital objects and applying metadata schemas and authority controls. 
*	Oversee libraries’ scan technicians and perform second level quality control on all digital objects created for the CCDL. 
*	Work with other Library Technology staff to create and improve user interfaces to digital collections.
*	Participate in departmental and libraries-wide committees and work groups established to further the mission of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges.

 

Required Qualifications:  

*	ALA-accredited MLS, MLIS (required for Librarian appointment) or equivalent degree.  
*	Knowledge of AACR2r, LC classification, and MARC21.
*	Comprehensive understanding of authority controls like LCSH, TGM, AAT, LCNA, ULAN, etc.
*	Minimum two years experience cataloging digital objects. 
*	Experience using metadata schemas such as Dublin Core, EAD, XML, TEI, METS, MODS, MADS, or PREMIS.
*	Knowledge of how digital library collections are used in an academic setting.
*	Advanced computer skills, and experience with Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP operating systems and commonly-used productivity applications.
*	Effective communication, planning, time management and organizational skills. 
*	Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
*	Adeptness at working in a rapidly changing technological environment.

 

 

Preferred knowledge and skills:

*	Experience in an instructional or educational technology setting.
*	Working knowledge of digital asset management systems such as DSpace, CONTENTdm and Greenstone.
*	Familiarity with best practices for digitization of primary resources.
*	Experience with scanning and image manipulation software.
*	Comprehensive, hands-on experience creating digital collections in an academic library setting.
*	Awareness of copyright laws and rights management issues in a digital environment.

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: Minimum starting salary is $3,542.25 monthly. Starting salary offered and appointment to rank in the Librarian Series are commensurate with education and experience. In addition the Claremont University Consortium provides an attractive benefits program that includes medical insurance, sick leave, 22 days vacation, two personal days and ten paid holidays per year. 

To apply: Send résumé with cover letter and the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references who are knowledgeable about your qualifications for this position to:

            Search Committee: Metadata and Digital Production Librarian

            Attention: Alberta Walker, Associate Director

            Libraries of The Claremont Colleges

            800 Dartmouth Avenue

            Claremont, CA 91711

Email: search dot committee at libraries dot claremont dot edu

 

Applications received by September 30, 2005 will receive first consideration.  

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Located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in the city of Claremont, California (population 36,500), 35 miles east of Los Angeles, the Claremont Colleges are a geographically contiguous set of five top-ranked liberal arts undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions, uniquely configured to support and encourage interdisciplinary study.  The Libraries, a part of The Colleges' supporting organization, the Claremont University Consortium, support all seven colleges across a wide spectrum of disciplines.  Comprising four buildings, three of which are located on individual campuses, the Libraries hold more than 2 million volumes and subscribe to a vast array of electronic resources.

 

 

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Candace Lebel

Innopac Coordinator

The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges

800 N Dartmouth Ave

Claremont CA 91711

909-621-8682

candace dot lebel at libraries dot claremont dot edu

http://blais.claremont.edu

 



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