Inside Medical Science: Conversations with Experts, Project Cataloguer
Starting salary: £26,052, rising annually to £28,452
Full Time, Fixed Term - Support
Oxford Brookes University Library has recently secured funding from the Wellcome Trust to digitise the Medical Sciences Video Archive, a notable collection of biographical interviews with over 130 important figures in clinical medicine and science from the UK and Australia, including a selection of Nobel Prize winners.
We are now looking for an experienced project cataloguer to join the Special Collections and Archives Team based in the Headington Library to make this collection accessible. The contract will be full time, 37 hours per week, fixed term for 6 months.
You will be:
Working with the Repository Manager and Metadata Services Team to create a collection in the University's Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository (RADAR)
Updating the collection's catalogue records, and creating new ones where necessary, with links to the digital collection in RADAR
Assessing the audio and visual quality of the interviews, and accurately recording problems.
Checking for third party confidential data, identifying relevant risks, and making recommendations relating to access.
Managing and prioritising tasks, and creating an efficient workflow, to ensure that the project is completed on time.
You should have:
a professional qualification in librarianship or information science, or a postgraduate qualification recognised by the Archives and Records Association.
experience of creating catalogue records for Library or Archive material, and of working with digital records
experience working with a range of collection management/library management systems
knowledge of national/international metadata schemes and standards
awareness of and an interest in digital preservation
familiarity with Data Protection legislation.
International applicants from outside the EU will need to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK
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Closing Date : 06-Jan-2017 Vacancy ID : 029930
Faculty or Directorate : Directorate of Learning Resources Location : Headington Library, Headington Campus
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