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This is a 12-month, full-time tenure-track academic appointment carrying full faculty status and responsibilities including scholarship and service to meet both the Libraries’ and the University’s requirements for tenure and promotion.  To be successful in this position, the incumbent must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills to establish and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues in an environment where flexibility and collaboration are essential.  The ideal candidate will possess strong technical skills to further and enhance metadata across the Libraries.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise on metadata schemas, technical details, and best practices for increasing access and discovery of collections
• Manage, train, and direct others in resource description and metadata management
• Participate in digital preservation activities
• Support inclusion, diversity, equity, and access as we seek to reduce institutional biases found in metadata work
• Participate in special projects as needed
• Create and maintain effective documentation on metadata and guidelines for application
• Ability to pursue activities and meet responsibilities necessary for achieving tenure at Kansas State University Libraries including research/creative activities and participation in professional development activities and professional organizations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MLS/MLIS degree from an ALA accredited institution
• Experience applying descriptive standards (MODS, Dublin Core, EAD, METS, etc.)
• Knowledge of best practices and trends in metadata and cataloging
• Working knowledge of XML and XSLT
• Aptitude for complex analytical work with attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to use technology in creative ways to solve problems and create efficiencies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cataloging/metadata experience in an academic library
• Knowledge of principles of cataloging, subject analysis, classification, and authority control with the ability to apply those principles using the appropriate standards including but not limited to RDA, DACS, LCSH, LCC, Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements, MARC21, and FRBR and other emerging standards
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading projects
• Experience with OCLC Connexion and an integrated library system
• Experience with a digital asset management system (Islandora, DSpace, etc.)

Other Requirements:

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at the time of employment

Please submit the following documents:

1. A letter of application. To greatly strengthen your application, please apply your communication skills to clearly address the position responsibilities and qualifications listed above, and demonstrate how your work style, vision, and other distinctive qualities would enhance our organization.
2. Include a statement that explains your commitment and experience to advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, or accessibility.
3. A resume
4. Names and contact information for three references