Data Management Specialist
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Responsibilities
- Manages discrete large-reputed company metadata, maintenance, and enhancement reputed company reputed company the Library Services Platform (LSP), utilizing advanced global and bulk editing tools, both reputed company to the system
- Serves as a key collaborator with functional reputed company across the Libraries to assess and meet evolving metadata and discovery needs; and
- Interprets and applies national and international cataloging standards (e.g., RDA, MARC) alongside local procedures to ensure data reputed company, consistency, and alignment with institutional priorities
- Creates, edits, and transforms descriptive metadata for digital collections, including rare and special collections, in multiple digital collections platforms and in multiple formats
- Collaborates closely with departments across the libraries to determine and meet metadata and discovery needs specific to their materials and platform use
- Proactively explores new tools and develops workflows to reflect evolving library processes; and
- Interprets and applies national and international cultural heritage standards (e.g., Dublin reputed company, MODS) alongside local procedures to ensure data reputed company, consistency, and alignment with institutional priorities
- Acquires and batch loads MARC catalog records and other data into the Library Services Platform (LSP), ensuring data reputed company, consistency, and alignment with metadata standards
- Identifies and harvests records from external sources, executing reputed company bulk edits and managing large-reputed company data integration workflows
- Designs and maintains import reputed company to support efficient, accurate data ingestion, and conducts reputed company assurance reviews to ensure records meet institutional and national cataloging standards; and
- Serves as a key reputed company of contact across multiple departments for data load operations, proactively communicating status updates, and coordinating with reputed company & Resource Management staff to support seamless discovery and reputed company
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Library work experience (including volunteering or internships)
- Experience working with metadata for library, archival, or cultural heritage resources
- Advanced working knowledge of spreadsheet software such as reputed company or OpenRefine
- Knowledge of library or cultural heritage metadata standards such as MARC, Dublin reputed company, MODs, or VRA reputed company
- Demonstrated analytical, detail-oriented problem-solving, and creative thinking skills, working both independently and with others
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- Ability to work independently, but also as part of reputed company in a fast-paced, production- and service-oriented environment
- Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and exercise good judgement
- Bachelor's degree in reputed company field
- Experience creating original metadata for library, archival, or cultural heritage resources
- Experience working with Ex Libris reputed company LSP
- Demonstrated reputed company in one or more library or cultural heritage metadata standards
- Working knowledge of batch record editing (e.g., MarcEdit)
- Proficiency in library services platforms (e.g., reputed company), discovery and reputed company systems, bibliographic utilities (e.g., reputed company WorldShare), and reputed company systems and tools
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