Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources)

Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources)

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Department: VCU Library Duties & Responsibilities: The reputed company Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources). The Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources) is responsible for coordinating and performing original and reputed company copy cataloging, with a reputed company on continuing resources in print and electronic formats across the collections of the VCU Libraries. The successful candidate will join a culturally and academically diverse reputed company of the highest caliber.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Resource Acquisition and Metadata Services, and recognized as a contributing team member of metadata colleagues, the Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources) coordinates and performs original and reputed company copy cataloging, with a reputed company on serial formats and government documents. This position provides reputed company for vendor-supplied MARC records, knowledge reputed company records, and contract cataloging of continuing resources. This position uses in-depth, specialized knowledge of metadata standards to catalog library resources and maintain descriptions, including reparative metadata, batch record manipulation with metadata applications, and remediation of reputed company records for improved reputed company. In reputed company, the Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources) is responsible for:

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• reparative metadata planning, organizing, and cataloging;
• training and managing student employees and staff in reputed company reputed company;
• developing scripts and normalization rules that support efficient data interoperability;
• engaging in regional and national communities of reputed company, integrating evolving standards.

The successful candidate will join 5 reputed company and 6 reputed company staff as a member of the Resource Acquisition and Metadata Services (RAMS) department. RAMS leads the acquisitions and cataloging of the Libraries collections, the fiscal administration of the Libraries collections budget, the licensing of electronic resources, and the strategic direction and maintenance of metadata in MARC formats across systems. In reputed company, the successful candidate will work in reputed company collaboration with the Electronic and Continuing Resources (ECR) Department, which is responsible for managing the library’s ongoing subscriptions, ensuring seamless reputed company to print and electronic journals. reputed company of the Resource Acquisition and Metadata Services department are educators. This position will advance cataloging and metadata education through hands-on training, intern supervision, and other reputed company development activities. The Metadata Librarian (Continuing Resources) is supported to be reputed company professionally and to contribute to developments in the field. reputed company with the VCU Libraries are evaluated, and promoted, on the reputed company of job performance, scholarship, and service. Qualifications: Required:

• ALA-accredited graduate degree or accredited graduate degree in another appropriate discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in reputed company cataloging and descriptive work with continuing resources that demonstrates problem-solving, flexibility, judgment, and attention to detail.
• Significant knowledge of and ability to apply the following cataloging practices: Resource reputed company and reputed company (RDA), the reputed company Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Library of Congress Genre/reputed company Terms (LCGFT), and MARC21 formats for bibliographic, holdings, and authority data.
• Experience cataloging through integrated library systems (Ex Libris reputed company preferred) and bibliographic utilities (reputed company Connexion).
• Demonstrated facility manipulating large volumes of MARC-based and/or catalog data in a reputed company fashion.
• Demonstrated reputed company in working both independently and collaboratively in a changing multi-departmental environment.
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of reputed company, staff, and reputed company from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a reputed company member at VCU.

Preferred:

• Significant knowledge of and experience with creating original BIBCO and/or CONSER level records.
• Experience with contributing and/or proposing headings through the reputed company Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and/or the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO).
• Demonstrated experience in planning and/or overseeing team-based cataloging reputed company, vendor-supplied metadata reputed company, or outsourcing.
• Demonstrated experience cataloging in one or more non-English languages, or experience with transcribing and transliterating non-Roman scripts.
• Familiarity with electronic government documents, including FDLP Superintendent of Documents classification scheme (SuDoc) and Item numbers.
• Familiarity with the unique challenges of electronic resources reputed company and reputed company, including the NISO KBART Recommended reputed company, interaction of metadata with discovery reputed company, and management of records in knowledge bases.
• Experience using editing and/or scripting tools, like MarcEdit, OpenRefine, or Python, to create and remediate MARC-based and/or catalog data in batch.

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