The Center for Jewish History is accepting applications for two Catalogers to work on a grant funded project. These are full-time positions that are funded for approximately 15 months.
Background: The Center for Jewish History is a consortium of five archival, library and museum collections. Visit our website at <http://www.cjh.org/>www.cjh.org. The Center has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create MARC records for uncataloged books, serials, artifacts, photographs, and reel-to-reel tapes. Duties: Under the supervision of the Centers Systems Librarian, the Cataloger will create MARC records for materials from the collections of the five Partners. This will involve searching the RLIN and OCLC databases to do copy cataloging if possible or original cataloging based on the item in hand. Will also catalog artifacts and special formats. This position will also spend 10% of the time updating subject headings within bibliographic records in order to provide more consistency to legacy catalog records. Required Qualifications: Masters degree in library science from an ALA-accredited program. Demonstrated ability to catalog in the MARC format and to use AACRII, LCSH and other thesauri. Ability to catalog in one or more of the languages frequently found in the collections: Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian, or Polish. Must be organized and able to work accurately. Must have word processing skills. Must have good writing and verbal skills and be able to work collaboratively in a team setting. Desirable Qualifications. Familiarity with ALA diacritics and Unicode. At least one year of professional experience cataloging book and non-book materials. Familiarity with RLIN21 or OCLC. Experience cataloging in an integrated library system, especially ALEPH. Salary: $38,000, depending upon experience. Applications (cover letter, resume and contact information for three references) should be sent to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'Cataloging Position' in the Subject line. Specific questions about the project and the position can be addressed to Bob Sink at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Review of applications will begin on April 27, 2007. Laura Leone | Systems Librarian | The Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street, NY, NY 10011 | 212-294-8301 ext 1052 | <http://www.cjh.org/>www.cjh.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
