Metadata Librarian

Job Description:

Corestaff Services, a leading staffing and recruitment firm with over 40 years of experience supporting federal government agencies, is seeking Metadata Librarian Consultants to support a high-impact federal project. The project involves migrating a legacy integrated library system (ILS) to the Alma/Primo library services platform by Ex Libris. This is a fully remote role with full-time hours and a long-term assignment (1-2 years).

Ideal candidates will bring deep expertise in metadata creation and management, demonstrated experience in ILS/LSP migrations, and prior experience working with federal government libraries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the end-to-end migration from a legacy ILS to Ex Libris Alma/Primo
• Create, edit, and manage bibliographic metadata using a variety of standards (MARC, RDA, Dublin Core, MODS)
• Conduct metadata cleanup and transformation using tools such as MarcEdit, OpenRefine, and regular expressions
• Utilize controlled vocabularies and authority files (e.g., LCSH, MeSH, LCNAF, VIAF)
• Collaborate with stakeholders on metadata strategy and schema mapping
• Lead metadata testing, quality assurance, and validation efforts during and after migration
• Implement SUSHI protocols and support discovery layer optimization
• Provide documentation and metadata workflows as part of project deliverables
• Participate in team meetings, progress reviews, and reporting
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited program (or international equivalent)
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in metadata creation and management in a library setting, including original cataloging
• Proficiency with metadata standards (e.g., MARC, Dublin Core, MODS, RDA) and authority control tools
• Experience with metadata cleanup and transformation tools (e.g., MarcEdit, OpenRefine)
• At least five (5) years of experience working with integrated library systems (ILS) or library services platforms (LSP)
• Demonstrated leadership of at least one successful ILS/LSP migration project
• Familiarity with implementing SUSHI protocols
• Experience working with Ex Libris Alma/Primo and/or Innovative Interfaces Inc. Sierra
• Experience merging or consolidating collections across multiple library institutions
• Experience using Collibra or similar data management systems, particularly in linking metadata to library discovery systems
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Must have prior experience working on federal government contracts or within a federal agency library setting
  
  

$ 45.00/hr

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