Library Services Technician
UMBC•Baltimore, MD
•$25 - $27•Hybrid
About The Position
Within the Digital Scholarship Services Unit, the Library Services Technician supports the ongoing work to correct UMBC author affiliations in publishers’ metadata, and bibliographic and citation databases. The Library Services Technician assists with the daily functions of the UMBC digital repository, ScholarWorks@UMBC. This position is responsible for training and checking the work of student assistants working on affiliation corrections and the digital repository.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Two years of experience directly related to the primary duties of the position.
- Note: Additional related experience and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for full performance of the work may be substituted for the education or experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 college credits being equivalent to one year of experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with a library repository system.
- Experience using spreadsheets (Excel and Google Sheets)
Responsibilities
- Identifies erroneous UMBC author affiliations in publisher metadata and bibliographic and citation databases (ex. Scopus and Web of Science); contacts publishers and works with them to make corrections; works with UMBC departments and/or reporting agencies to correct institutional name variants (ex. UMB vs UMBC); supports outreach to educate faculty about correcting their affiliation in published research; collects data related to corrections and rankings.
- Trains student assistants and checks their processing, metadata, and affiliation correction work for accuracy.
- Processes potential submissions to ScholarWorks@UMBC and updates and corrects records in the database.
- Completes descriptive metadata describing works and their authors.
- Follows established procedures to manipulate data sets to transform them for loading into ScholarWorks@UMBC.
- Communicates with faculty about potential and completed submissions to ScholarWorks@UMBC.
Benefits
- 14 Days of Annual Leave
- 15 Days of Sick Leave
- 15 Holidays
- 3 Personal Days
- 8 credit hours per semester Tuition Remission
- Tuition remission at UMBC for eligible dependents after two years of FT employment
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement/Pension plan
- Professional development opportunities
- Wellness opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
