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Metadata Librarian

Employer
Bates College
Location
Lewiston, Maine

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Bates is one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges, with a long history of commitments to principles of human dignity and diversity.

Founded by abolitionists in 1855, Bates has been coeducational and has welcomed students regardless of race and ethnicity since its founding. The college’s commitment to academic excellence, intellectual exploration, inclusivity, and engaged citizenship defines its character.

Bates offers a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community. Bates engages the forces — intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology — that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.

Bates has about 2,000 students from a wide variety of backgrounds. The student body represents 44 states and 53 countries; approximately 23 percent are domestic students of color, 7 percent of students are international, and 13 percent of all students are first generation to college.

The College has 210 faculty members and 750 staff and administrative employees. As one of the top employers in the state, Bates recruits its faculty and staff nationally, regionally, and locally. They consist of diverse individuals with a broad range of intellectual, professional, and personal experience.

Bates is proud of its deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community, an urban center with a demographically diverse population of approximately 65,000 people. With a rich industrial past, Lewiston/ Auburn has seen great transition in the last 30 years and offers opportunities for cultural enrichment and meaningful community-engaged learning and leadership. Bates is located on a beautiful, 109-acre, traditional New England campus in Lewiston, a small city enjoying an exciting economic and cultural revitalization. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland, 140 miles north of Boston, and 340 miles north of New York City.


The Position

The Bates College Library is searching for a Metadata Librarian to work in a collaborative library setting providing patrons access to all formats of material in a timely, efficient, and informative manner, creating original catalog records and enhancing existing records in WorldCat and the local catalog (Innovative Interfaces) according to national standards. The Metadata Librarian initiates outreach opportunities with Bates faculty and staff in order to advise on the application of appropriate current and emerging metadata schema to facilitate access to digital materials that support the broad educational mission of the college or document its history. This position works with an increasingly diverse population of students, faculty, and staff at the College.


Key Accountabilities

  • Performs original and copy cataloging for assigned formats of material. The library curates a variety of materials, including DVDs, CDs and scores, websites and PDFs, and rare books and manuscripts.
  • Monitors the development of local, national, and international metadata standards and stays up-to-date with changes in national cataloging standards and policies.
  • Advises in the evaluation and selection of current and emerging metadata schema for the organization of data and presentation of digital objects created or curated by Bates faculty or staff.
  • Collaborates with library staff in Collections and Muskie Archives in developing strategies for organizing, presenting, and preserving the full range of digital objects for which the library is responsible. Offers training as needed.


Additional Job Functions:

  • Serves on CBB (Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin) committees and task forces as assigned.
  • Represents the Library in state, regional, and national forums related to metadata.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
  • This is a full-time, 12-month staff position. Occasional travel including day and overnight trips may be required.


Qualifications
The successful candidate will have a Master’s or postgraduate degree in library and information science or equivalent degree/work experience.


The ideal candidate will have:

  • 2+ years of cataloging experience using MARC and RDA.
  • Experience in original cataloging.
  • Experience planning and implementing metadata schema for digital collections.
  • Strong outreach, communication, and interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of metadata standards and schema (e.g., MARC, Dublin Core).
  • Demonstrated knowledge of content standards (e.g., RDA, DACS).
  • Demonstrated knowledge of controlled vocabularies and classification (e.g., LC authorities, subject thesauri, LC classification).
  • Understanding of linked data principles (e.g., BIBFRAME, RDF).
  • Knowledge of digital systems (e.g., Digital Commons, Islandora).
  • Knowledge of programming/scripting languages and/or tools for data manipulation (e.g., MarcEdit, OpenRefine).
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusivity and to serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse and inclusive community with diplomacy and tact.
  • Successful completion of a criminal background check.


Benefits

Bates College offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits (health, dental, 9% retirement contribution with potential for an additional 3% match, 24 days of vacation, 12 paid holidays, free parking, access to library and athletic facilities & more) and a supportive, collegial environment in a drug- and smoke-free workplace.


Application Instructions

Please submit a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references. This position requires the successful completion of a pre-employment background screening. Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled. (References will not be contacted without your permission.)


Application Process

This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge. Apply Now @ https://apply.interfolio.com/67617 Equal

Employment Opportunity Statement
Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its education policies and programs, or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. All college faculty, staff, students, contractors, visitors, and volunteers are responsible for understanding and complying with the Non-Discrimination Policy.

Inquiries concerning the college’s policies, compliance with applicable laws, statutes, and regulations (such as Title VII, Title IX, and ADA/Section 504), and complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow, Title IX Officer, 207-786-6445 or via email at glexow@bates.edu.

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Founded in 1855, Bates is one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges, with a long history of commitments to principles of human dignity and diversity. Since its inception, Bates has been a bates_college2.jpgcoeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor and to programs and opportunities by qualified learners of all backgrounds. Historically, Bates students and graduates have linked education with service, leadership, and obligations beyond themselves.

Bates College is a welcoming community whose members care deeply about the rigorous, challenging, and rewarding life of ideas and principles, and value their exchange and examination. Bates helps students discover their strengths, investigate unquestioned assumptions and make a meaningful impact during their years on campus and throughout alumni life.

Our students are stimulated by good talk, great books and artistic expression, and they welcome the hard academic work that is the price of discovery. Our professors are committed to developing, encouraging and supporting them in their intellectual and personal growth. Across Bates, a caring

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camaraderie encourages one and all to try the new and the difficult. Our shared values shape the ways we teach and learn, our view of the Lewiston-Auburn community and the world at large, and our relationships with each other.

bates_college1.jpgThe College is proud of its strong involvements in the Lewiston-Auburn communities, Maine's second largest urban area, with a population of approximately 65,000. The College is 40 minutes from Portland and the Maine coast, and 2.5 hours north of Boston.

At Bates College, we understand that good hiring decisions are critical to our success. We take the recruiting process seriously and select only those individuals who are motivated to learn and grow, and who take pride in a job well done. Bates College also recognizes that happy employees are productive employees. Treating our community well is one of our top priorities. Accordingly, we strive to create a working environment that is both intellectually stimulating and personally satisfying!

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