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The Northeastern University Library is seeking a motivated professional for the position of Metadata Librarian I in the Resource and Discovery Services Department. The Metadata Librarian works in a highly collaborative setting to support discovery and access to library collections through the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of metadata across discovery platforms and library systems. Under the general supervision of the Supervisor, Digital Metadata and Ingest, this position provides descriptive and authority metadata for digital, physical, and archival research collections and projects in all subjects according to nationally recognized data structure, content, value, and format/technical standards. The Metadata Librarian uses various approved and appropriate library and archival metadata schema, controlled vocabularies and content standards to support access to digital and analog resources. The Metadata Librarian updates and maintains metadata in the Library’s Digital Repository Service, the Library’s online discovery service (Primo), and the unified resource management system (Alma). The position works with the Alma/Primo integration, writing and enabling normalization rules for record display and faceting in Primo. The incumbent is also responsible for managing and supervising metadata projects, including original and retrospective cataloging using MODS and MARC. Northeastern University’s vibrant campus is located right in the heart of Boston, within walking distance to museums and other cultural institutions. The University Library, at the hub of the campus, supports the teaching, learning, and research needs of the university community in all disciplines.
Hey everyone, we have two great positions available at the Northeastern University Library:
1) Digital Metadata and Ingest Supervisor: https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/61090
2) Metadata Librarian: https://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/61090
Join us!
Supervisor, Digital Metadata and Ingest The Northeastern University Library is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking metadata librarian for the position of Supervisor, Digital Metadata and Ingest. Reporting to the Assistant Head for Resource & Discovery Services, this position supports the organization, discovery, and access to the Library’s wealth of digital resources through the production and management of descriptive and authoritative metadata. The incumbent actively collaborates with other units and metadata stakeholders within and outside the library, including Digital Production, Archives, and Digital Scholarship. The Library holds an extensive collection of Boston related materials and is embarking on many exciting digital projects including local social justice collections and newspaper archives to support scholarship within the Library’s interdisciplinary Boston Research Center and beyond. Bring your metadata expertise and the ability to innovate workflows and solutions to this position, and enhance the usability and discoverability of these and other exciting University collections. The Supervisor, Digital Metadata and Ingest is responsible for the creation and maintenance of original technical and descriptive metadata for analog and digital resources in a variety of formats following national and local standards, and the ingest of objects and metadata into the Library’s Digital Repository. This position hires, manages, supervises, and trains staff in the Digital Metadata Unit including the Metadata Librarian and Metadata Assistant, and trains and supervises other staff working on digital metadata projects. The Supervisor, Digital Metadata and Ingest is responsible for planning and successfully executing complex metadata projects for departments inside and outside the Library as well as providing advice and metadata assistance to departments embarking on their own digital projects on campus. The incumbent is also responsible for setting daily and longer-term priorities, project planning, and organizing and streamlining collaborative workflows. Strong communication, supervisory, technical and project planning skills, flexibility, and the ability to work comfortably with diverse groups are key.
