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Please note this opportunity for an Assistant Acquisitions and Metadata Librarian at UAL.
UAL has six colleges - Camberwell College of Arts, Central St Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts - and this role helps to provide bibliographic services to all of them.
Why choose us?
University of the Arts London is recognised around the world as a leading institution for teaching and research in arts, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts.
Library Services are central to the University of the Arts learning, teaching and research activities.
The role
Contributing to the development, delivery and exploitation of high quality and customer-focused library services at the University of the Arts London (UAL), by helping to provide a professional acquisitions, cataloguing, classification and metadata service on a University-wide basis to customer college libraries and Resources & Systems (R&S) colleagues. You will contribute to developing effective policies for acquisitions and metadata, help ensure agreed procedures are implemented and service level agreements met. You will support the setting of standards and measures, and assist in the provision of training to library assistants and academic liaison colleagues in a partial shelf-ready environment.
Your profile
With either a degree in any subject plus a postgraduate qualification or a degree in Library & Information Studies or equivalent, and relevant experience in a library or customer service environment, you will have knowledge and experience of the use of cataloguing standards (including AACR2, RDA, Marc21, LC authorities, DDC) and an awareness of best practice in acquisitions and cataloguing practice in higher education. You will contribute to the work of the team, providing support, assistance and cover where needed and you will be able to create realistic plans to achieve deadlines and objectives, effectively prioritising your work.
Closing date for applications is: 14th April 2014
There is more information on our website - at http://jobs.arts.ac.uk/ - along with application instructions.
Regards,
Karen
Karen Carden
Resources & Systems Manager
Library Services
University of the Arts London
020 7514 9344
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Library Services
University of the Arts London
www.arts.ac.uk/library
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