What are the responsibilities and job description for the Library Coordinator III position at Tulane University?
Job Description
This position works in the Digital Initiatives Department of the Digital Scholarship & Distinctive Collections Division of Tulane University Libraries. Under the direction of the Digital Production Librarian, this position hires, trains, and supervises student workers and oversees the student workers’ budget throughout the calendar year. The position creates and manages metadata, digitizes analog source materials, processes digital files, and ingests materials into Tulane University Digital Collections and cross-trains on repository, imaging, discovery, and preservation systems and ensures quality control and stewardship of digitized materials and working documents.
Responsibilities
This position is responsible for creating and editing metadata records using spreadsheets and scripting or coding languages such as XML, performing quality control, generating technical metadata, and monitoring the submission queue for theses and dissertations. The role also includes hiring, training, scheduling, and supervising student workers; managing the student budget; ensuring accurate and timely absence reporting; assigning work; and reviewing files and metadata for quality. Additional responsibilities include organizing and processing digital materials for ingest into digital collections, handling and digitizing analog materials, and assisting with training students in these workflows. Other duties are performed as assigned to support departmental needs.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
Tulane University is an equal opportunity educator and employer committed to providing an education and employment environment free of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Legally protected demographic classifications (such as a person’s race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, shared ancestry, disability, genetics, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws) are not relied upon as an eligibility, selection or participation criteria for Tulane’s employment or educational programs or activities.
Tulane University is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing an application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact the Office of Human Resources by phone at 504-865-4748 or by email at hr@tulane.edu .
This position works in the Digital Initiatives Department of the Digital Scholarship & Distinctive Collections Division of Tulane University Libraries. Under the direction of the Digital Production Librarian, this position hires, trains, and supervises student workers and oversees the student workers’ budget throughout the calendar year. The position creates and manages metadata, digitizes analog source materials, processes digital files, and ingests materials into Tulane University Digital Collections and cross-trains on repository, imaging, discovery, and preservation systems and ensures quality control and stewardship of digitized materials and working documents.
Responsibilities
This position is responsible for creating and editing metadata records using spreadsheets and scripting or coding languages such as XML, performing quality control, generating technical metadata, and monitoring the submission queue for theses and dissertations. The role also includes hiring, training, scheduling, and supervising student workers; managing the student budget; ensuring accurate and timely absence reporting; assigning work; and reviewing files and metadata for quality. Additional responsibilities include organizing and processing digital materials for ingest into digital collections, handling and digitizing analog materials, and assisting with training students in these workflows. Other duties are performed as assigned to support departmental needs.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degre OR
- High School Diploma (or Equivalent) and 6 years of directly related work experience
- Ability to meet Core Technology Competency Level II
- Demonstrated knowledge of imaging hardware (scanners, cameras), image editing software, and spreadsheets
- Familiarity with hiring, training, and scheduling
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Responsive to the needs of a broad range of faculty and students and committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment
- Ability to track projects, multitask and be detail oriented
- Experience digitizing analog materials
- Knowledge of metadata schemas (MODS, Dublin Core)
- Experience using markup languages like XML and/or scripting languages like Python
- Experience with library discovery systems (Ex Libris Alma and Primo)
- Self-starter, ability to work with moderate supervision
- Knowledge of controlled vocabulary (Library of Congress, AAT)
Tulane University is an equal opportunity educator and employer committed to providing an education and employment environment free of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Legally protected demographic classifications (such as a person’s race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, shared ancestry, disability, genetics, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws) are not relied upon as an eligibility, selection or participation criteria for Tulane’s employment or educational programs or activities.
Tulane University is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing an application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact the Office of Human Resources by phone at 504-865-4748 or by email at hr@tulane.edu .