Librarian

The successful candidate will assist inthedevelopment of policies, procedures and guidelines forcataloguing,metadata and resource description and ensure they areimplementedand followed. Also, create and develop short-term andlong-termproject plans for the cataloging and processing of futureandexisting materials and collections that improve the discoveryofand access to the UDST physicalcollection. Thesuccessfulcandidate will apply cataloguing and metadata bestpractices toensure that efficient, timely and appropriate accessis provided tophysical and digital collections. And manage andassist inprocessing, cataloguing, classification, and serialsmanagementaccording to internationalstandards. Thesuccessful candidate willcreate, update and modify databaserecords in Integrated LibrarySystem (ILS) or other informationmanagement systems to ensurequality data and metadata, providinguser-friendly access tocollections. Related tasks may include butare not limited todescription of materials, transformation ofmetadata, training ofstaff in best practices related to metadataproduction and digitallibraries, and reviewing the work ofcontributors to ensure that itadheres to relevant standards andprocedures