Position: Technical Services/Research Law Librarian
Location: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC
Salary: $64,137 – $131,341

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*Multiple positions available*

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• Full time
• Starting salary: $64,137 – $131,341
• Master of Library Science (MLS) degree from an ALA-accredited institution

As a Technical Services/Research Law Librarian for CIA, you will assist with the management of core legal information repositories for the Office of General Counsel (OGC) to support its broad spectrum of practice areas. You will participate in the selection, acquisition, and maintenance of targeted legal information resources by providing guidance on legal research resources and best practices; providing current awareness of legal developments across OGC practice areas; and conducting unique legal research that leverages advanced research skills against specialized resources.

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform the following key responsibilities, as listed below:

• Serve as a central resource for managing OGC knowledge and information
• Apply knowledge of legal information in the maintenance of a classification/metadata scheme
• Provide guidance and training on the use and availability of resources and legal research capabilities
• Perform complex research, including locating federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, cases, international treaties, conventions, agreements, and protocols
• Create procedural and informational pathfinders, bibliographies, and other documentation

Who You’ll Work With

At the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), we recognize our Nation’s strength comes from the diversity of its people. People from a broad range of backgrounds and viewpoints work at CIA, and our diverse teams are the reason we can keep our country safe.

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What You’ll Get

Our benefits support every aspect of a working professional’s life, including health and wellness, time off, family, finances, and continuing education. Our programs include highly sought-after government health benefits, flexible schedules, sick leave, and childcare. In some cases, we also offer sign-on incentives and cover moving expenses if you relocate.

As a CIA employee, you’ll also get the satisfaction of knowing your work is part of something bigger than yourself. Our work is driven by one mission: to keep our Nation safe. Every day is an opportunity to enhance U.S. national security.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Master of Library Science (MLS) degree from an ALA-accredited institution
• At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience as a librarian in a large legal firm
• Legal research skills with proficiency in Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, and other common legal information platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge of search technologies and concrete, advanced information retrieval techniques
• Demonstrated knowledge of the traditional legal research method
• Demonstrated knowledge of cataloging principles, practices, and systems
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Flexibility and strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Enthusiastic commitment to customer service
• Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation

What You’ll Need to Apply

• Resume
• Unofficial transcripts for all degrees
• Three (3) professional references
• A cover letter specifying your qualifications. Please address why you want to work in this role and what differentiates you from other applicants.

Position: Cataloger
Location: American Folklife Center, Special Collections Directorate, Library Services, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Salary: $72,750 to $94,581

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Duties

Summary

This position is located in the American Folklife Center, Special Collections Directorate, Library Services.

The position description number for this position is 012616.

The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.

This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.

Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.

Responsibilities

The purpose of this position is to assist in preparing descriptive information generated from the Community Collections grant program, a limited-term project to collect and archive contemporary community-driven cultural expressions and traditions that may otherwise be absent from the national record. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which is home to one of the largest repositories of ethnographic materials from the United States and around the world, will offer grants to individuals to work within their communities to produce ethnographic cultural documentation, such as oral history interviews and audio-visual recordings of cultural activity, from the community perspective. The initiative is part of “Of the People: Widening the Path,” an initiative at the Library of Congress funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Under the direction of the Director of the Archives, the incumbent performs the full range of original cataloging duties for unpublished or rare born-digital materials, which requires specialized knowledge of folklife, ethnomusicology, documentary studies, oral history, and/or considerable knowledge of analog and digital specialized format areas (manuscripts, photographs, audio and moving image materials, etc.).

Working in a team environment, follows cataloging rules and applies archival theory and practice for describing collection materials. Creates and edits MARC catalog records and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids. Establishes new personal and corporate names and uniform titles, with appropriate cross-references, for inclusion in the name authority file. Joins a team that administers the American Folklore Society (AFS) Ethnographic Thesaurus.

Analyzes material to determine its relationship to the existing collections. Assists in ensuring that records adhere to appropriate national and international standards. Interprets present and past cataloging rules. Demonstrates a high degree of accuracy, consistency, and cultural competency in performing work assignments. 

Position: Supervisory Librarian (Head, Collections Conservation Section)
Location: Collections Stabilization Section, Conservation Division, Preservation Directorate, Library Services, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Salary: $103,690 to $134,798

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Duties

Summary

This position is located in the Collections Stabilization Section, Conservation Division, Preservation Directorate, Library Services.

The position description number for this position is 209491.

The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.

This is a supervisory, non-bargaining unit position.

Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.

Responsibilities

This position is located in the Collections Stabilization Section, which carries out the preventive preservation work of the Conservation Division. The incumbent serves as Section Head of the Section and is responsible for managing work conducted in this section. Preventive preservation work includes, but is not limited to, surveys, analyses, design of preventive conservation actions, treatment and housing and all aspects of safety for collections treated by the Section, via the registration system of the Conservation Division.

The Collections Stabilization Section works closely with all custodial divisional representatives to develop, establish, coordinate and carry out a comprehensive, Library wide preventive preservation program appropriate to the collections’ needs. In developing such programs, the incumbent considers the following factors: knowledge and understanding of the latest preventive preservation practices and techniques and their suitability/applicability to the collections of the Library of Congress; housing and conservation priorities established by each custodial division; and the mission of the Preservation Directorate. All activities undertaken by the Section become part of the Directorate’s annual work plan. The incumbent of this position integrates and coordinates activities with the Book and Paper Conservation Section to provide a comprehensive, efficiently run preventive preservation program for the permanent research collections of the Library of Congress, collections of both paper-based formats selected for their importance, value, and rarity to be preserved in their original form. These collections are diverse and in varying states of deterioration, presenting a variety of complex preservation problems, requiring sophisticated problem solving abilities and solutions.