Metadata Librarian

Job Requisition:

JR101945 Metadata Librarian (Open)

Job Posting

Title:

Metadata Librarian

Department:

CC00210 WM001 | SLAW | Law Library

Job Family:

Staff
- Librarians

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular (benefited)

Job

Requisition Primary

Location:

School Of Law

Primary Job Posting

Location:

Posting Location
- William & Mary

Job Description

Summary:

William & Mary Law School provides an exceptional education for tomorrow’s lawyers. As the nation’s first law school, we maintain an enduring tradition of intellectual and professional excellence. We improve legal systems here and abroad through a commitment to the classroom, influential scholarship, and service to the public. Our students become highly skilled advocates, ready to serve their clients and their communities with thoughtful engagement and unwavering integrity.

We recognize the challenges of our history and our responsibility to pursue the realization of justice through the rule of law. Above all, we strive to be a diverse and close-knit community, inclusive in the broadest sense and defined by a shared commitment to the rigorous and open-minded study of the law.

Working closely with and reporting to the Head of Technical Services & Special Collections, the Metadata Librarian plays a key role in the operations of the Technical Services department, cataloging materials in all formats including monographs, serials, audio/visual materials, archives, and online resources. The librarian manages the library’s electronic resources by providing access to online library database subscriptions, retrieving records for licensed online resources, and performing routine system data loads.

This librarian serves as the Law Library’s primary representative for systems-related functions, liaising with the university library. The Metadata Librarian also oversees the physical processing of books and other materials, manages invoice processing for monographic items and performs special tasks as needed.

Job Description:

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in library or information science from an ALA-accredited program or the international equivalent.
• Demonstrated knowledge or interest in metadata and cataloging a variety of resources.
• Familiarity with the technical services functions in an integrated library system.
• Experience working with catalog records for electronic resources.
• Strong service orientation, excellent oral and written communication skills, and sound organizational abilities.
• Ability to view the library and its functions as a unified whole and work effectively and collegially with library staff and other members of the law school and college communities.
• Commitment to serving diverse patrons and ensuring the library’s services and spaces are inclusive and welcoming to all.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a law library.
• Proficiency with metadata schemes, evolving standards, and emerging technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in original cataloging.
• Demonstrated experience with managing electronic resources and using the cataloging functions in an integrated library system, preferably in a law library and/or using Alma by ExLibris.
• Interest in electronic information sources and organization.

Conditions of Employment:

This position may require additional hours beyond the typical work week, to include occasional overnight and weekend work as needed to meet the business needs of the operation.

Duties:

• Serves as the library’s expert relating to all aspects of electronic resources maintenance in the online catalog. Creates, manages, and revises record collections to faithfully represent access to purchased and open access electronic resources.
• Supervises bibliographic file loads, edits to MARC records, and conducts other necessary updates. Develops priorities for input of records and record clean-up in consultation with the Head of Technical Services & Special Collections.
• Creates, updates, and oversees policies and procedures for all aspects electronic resources maintenance. Adapts these procedures accordingly in response to changes in the integrated library system and/or its discovery layer.
• Serves as liaison to law library and Swem library staff…