MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements June 24, 2007
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ________________________________________________ From: J wolft...@[email protected] Date: June 20, 2009 Subject: Librarian sought by Jewish Public Library, Montreal Jewish Public Library Job Description Library description: The Jewish Public Library is a public lending and research library mandated to collect comprehensive and diverse bibliographic material on Jews and Judaism in Canada and the rest of the world. It is the largest collection of circulating Judaica in North America, and long with its extensive children's Library and Archives, serves the Montreal and international communities principally but not exclusively in English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian. Title: Reference/Cataloguing Librarian General Description: The Reference/Cataloguing librarian will be responsible for the provision of reference service, cataloguing new and older materials, and act as staff liaison to the Yiddish Cultural programming Committee in the organization of Yiddish cultural events and courses. A significant proportion of the position will also be spent assisting at a busy circulation desk,. Qualifications: * MLS from accredited library school * 3-5 years experience in reference and/or public services * Demonstrated interest in emerging technologies to improve access to library materials, including the exposure of local catalogue information on the web. * Knowledge of trends and developments in academic library cataloguing, metadata standards, and information retrieval. Knowledge of bibliographic and authority record maintenance in an automated environment. * Minimum of one (1) year of professional cataloguing experience, preferably in an academic library, using AACR2, Library of Congress classification and subject headings, and MARC formats, with demonstrated high level of cataloguing knowledge and ability. * Initiative and leadership skills, with willingness to share expertise, work in teams, and negotiate solutions with diverse groups. * Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills, and the ability to work independently. Details of functions: * Provides in-depth reference service and assists at computer centre * As liaison to the Yiddish Committee, coordinates meetings, programs, courses and all Yiddish-related activities. * Cataloguing of new materials and retrospective collections * Assists at circulation desk, participates in interlibrary loans. Interested candidates should apply by July 8th, 2009 by email only to: [email protected]. _______________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead,direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name.Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation,grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 . All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/index.htm To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
