Catalog/Metadata Librarian

Fort Vancouver Regional Library Business Office • Vancouver, WA

14h • $30 - $46

About The Position

The Catalog/Metadata Librarian provides professional expertise in cataloging, metadata, and related library standards and practices. The role supports catalog and database integrity, the Integrated Library System and related tools, and Collections & Technical Services Division procedures and workflows. The librarian collaborates with staff, managers, vendors, and other stakeholders to evaluate needs, provide guidance, recommend improvements, and support effective and consistent library operations.

The position works under moderate supervision, reporting to the Collection Manager and working closely with the Library Systems Manager. It applies professional judgment in using established standards, practices, and procedures and resolving non-routine issues. The position may directly supervise staff, provide guidance to staff and managers, and direct staff on assigned projects or approved procedural changes.

The schedule is flexible during standard business hours, Monday through Friday, with either a 30-minute or one-hour lunch. The pay grade ranges from $30.49 to $45.73 per hour; compensation is negotiated by AFSCME for its members through collective bargaining.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Library Science from an American Library Association-accredited program.
• Three to five years of progressively responsible professional library experience, including cataloging, metadata, acquisitions, or a closely related area.
• Experience using SirsiDynix or a comparable Integrated Library System (ILS).

Nice To Haves

• One to three years of supervisory or lead experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert in cataloging, metadata, and applicable national standards and practices; advise staff and management and consult on or lead related projects with the Library Systems Manager, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate and maintain the quality, accuracy, consistency, and integrity of catalog and metadata records.
• Coordinate and perform catalog and database maintenance and remediation, including original and complex copy cataloging, vendor-record review and processing, record auditing, batch loading and editing, global updates, authority control, data cleanup and enrichment, OCLC record and holdings maintenance, and other advanced database maintenance.
• Analyze cataloging, metadata, and related acquisitions procedures and workflows in the Collections & Technical Services Division; develop and recommend standardized procedures, quality-control practices, and improvements, and support their implementation.
• Develop and provide training, documentation, guidance, and ongoing support to staff on cataloging, metadata, related acquisitions procedures, standards, workflows, and tools.
• Analyze and resolve complex or non-routine bibliographic, metadata, catalog, and database issues, collaborating with the Library Systems Manager, vendors, and other stakeholders on broader system issues.
• Attend meetings and participate in committees and organizations that further the Library’s mission and goals.
• Keep informed of current library, cataloging, metadata, acquisitions, and related technology practices through workshops, educational programs, and specialized literature.
• May create MARC records for OCLC, upgrade and edit records, and add OCLC records to the library catalog.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• May directly supervise staff and provide staff and managers with guidance and expertise on cataloging, metadata, related procedures, and workflows.
• May direct staff while leading assigned projects or implementing approved procedures and changes.

Benefits

• Employer covers 90–95% of full-time employees’ health insurance premium costs and 90–100% of dental insurance premium costs.
• Life insurance, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Option to enroll in additional voluntary life insurance, income protection plans, flexible spending accounts, and health savings accounts.
• 13 paid holidays per year.
• Full-time employees accrue 8 hours of sick leave per month.
• Initial vacation accrual of 11 hours per month, increasing with years of employment.
• Additional paid time off for jury duty, bereavement leave, inclement weather, and other situations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level