Position: Supervisory Librarian (Head, Reference Section, Prints & Photographs Div.)
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $126,233 – $164,102

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary

The Head, Reference Section, Prints & Photographs Division, manages the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. Works independently, exercises judgment, makes immediate decisions. Takes necessary actions related to research and reference use of a visual materials collection with close to 17 million images; online access services, social media, and research guides; public programs and tours; collection security and maintenance; rights information coordination; and consultation and liaison services.

Duties

Manages the Prints & Photographs Reading Room in the Researcher and Collections Services. Supervises a group of employees performing work up to the GS-13 level. Provides administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit.

Performs the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff members, which are communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Observes workers performance; demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques. Provides informal feedback and periodically evaluates employee performance. Resolves informal complaints and grievances. Develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary. Provides advice and counsel to workers related to work and administrative matters. Effects disciplinary measures as appropriate to the authority delegated in this area. Reviews and approves or disapproves leave requests. Assures that subordinates are trained and fully comply with the provisions of the safety regulations.

Serves as head of and manages all aspects of service in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. Establishes policies, directs reference work, and ensures the high quality of service provided. Develops and implements policies and procedures governing public use of the division’s collection. Such policies address the provision of in-person reference service and remote communications via the Internet, by telephone, by fax, or by written correspondence.

Plans, directs, and supervises security measures for the reading room and collections in use. Identifies and communicates needs for security cameras, card access readers, arrangement of the reading room to provide sight lines to users, reader registration program, and maintenance of patron use records. Ensures the security of collections in transit, including safe transport of materials and required tracking for circulation to onsite users, loans to individuals, and exhibit loans. Provides oversight for Photoduplication Service staff assigned to retrieve and return materials to the collections.

Serves on the division’s administrative team, ensuring coordination between the reference section and other units. Works closely with the chief on administration and establishment of long-range goals and objectives for the division. Participates in establishing cataloging, digitizing, and preservation priorities. Recommends actions affecting budgets, staff, and space. Participates in the development of grant proposals to foundations and individuals. May make personal contact with potential donors. Takes a leadership role as the divisional contact with commercial ventures and licensing initiatives that are based on the division’s collections.

The incumbent is responsible for furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices in regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. Specifically, incumbent initiates nondiscriminatory practices and affirmative action for the area under his/her supervision in the following: (1) merit promotion of employees and recruitment and hiring of applicants; (2) fair treatment of all employees; (3) encouragement and recognition of employee achievements; (4) career development of employees; and (5) full utilization of their skills.

The incumbent serves as Acting Chief of the Prints & Photographs Division when assigned.

Plans, establishes, and directs a library reference program. Coordinates staff efforts related to visual material reference services, instructing and training, and access services. Establishes policies and directs reference work on all aspects of visual materials, furnishing information via any communication medium to Members of Congress, other libraries, professional organizations and institutions, scholars and members of the general public. Receives, routes, and controls written reference inquiries directed to the reference librarians and reviews replies for responsiveness and quality. Creates form letters for use in replying to a variety of standard inquiries.

Acquires and provides inventory control of reference materials for the research use of the Division staff and public users. Makes final decisions on additions to and deletions from the P&P reference collection. Oversees on-the-spot preservation measures for materials in lots or Reading Room files, including rehousing, assessing condition, and consulting on further treatment. Establishes policies and practices governing use of rare, valuable, fragile, and unique collection items, in consultation with other staff.

The position description number for this position is 109584.
The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule.
This is a supervisory, non-bargaining unit position.

Position: Supervisory Library Technician
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $61,947 – $80,532

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary:

This position is located in the Researcher and Reference Services Division, General and International Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collections Services.
The position description number for this position is 237560.
This is a supervisory, non-bargaining unit position.

Duties

The incumbent serves as a Supervisor for On-Site Constituent Support Day Team or the Evening/Saturday Team in the Jefferson and Adams buildings for the Collections Management and Retrieval Section in the Researcher and Reference Services Division (RRS). Incumbents assigned to either the day or evening/Saturday hours tour of duty, are responsible for supervising, scheduling, and directing the Constituent Support Technicians in the On-Site Constituent Support Day or Evening/Saturday Team, as well as on occasion, other RSS staff assigned to work the extended hours shift.

The high quality of the reference and research service that the Library provides is directly related to the practices and procedures developed and implemented in RRS division. The incumbent shares with other Division managers and supervisors, overall responsibility for administering, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and activities which deal directly with the provision of high quality service to the various users of the Library’s general collections and protecting the integrity of the collections.

Provides administrative and technical supervision relative to the staff supervised. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work; Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees; Observes workers’ performance; demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques. Establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff and clearly communicates these through the formal employee performance management system. Provides informal feedback and periodically evaluates employee performance. Resolves informal complaints and grievances. Recommends appointment, promotion, or reassignment and develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary. Provides advice and counsel to workers related to work and administrative matters. Effects minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action in more serious cases. Reviews and approves or disapproves leave requests and certifies time and attendance records for staff. Assures that subordinates are trained and fully comply with safety regulations and safeguard sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) of employees. Furthers the objectives of diversity and inclusiveness by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of diversity and inclusiveness and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices in regard to political, religious, or labor organization affiliation or non-affiliation, marital status, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, non-disqualifying disability, age, or other non-merit factor.

Oversees a staff of Constituent Support Technicians who communicate with a wide variety of patrons with routine and non-routine questions of a complex nature on issues associated with access to items from the Library’s collections. Supervises the staff addressing book-service matters in the general reading rooms. Oversees the resolution of a wide array of collections issues that cannot be addressed by the Constituent Support Technicians, as well as personnel- related issues between staff and researchers, or among staff members. Manages requests received through various electronic and print methods, including receipt, response, tracking, and problem solving. Ensures requests are accurately answered in a timely manner.

Trains, monitors, and performs quality control for staff searching requests containing inaccurate and/or incomplete information. As part of the circulation process in the LC ILS, for items that have not previously been linked to an item record in the LC ILS, the necessary holdings and item records must be created. Provides technical assistance where linking is more complex or confusing to the Constituent Support Technicians.

Supervises the work of the day or evening/Saturday hours Constituent Support Technicians addressing requests that cannot be submitted directly by researchers, needing mediation. Primary among these mediated requests are requests for collections stored off-site. Also, oversees the advance reserve program and corresponds in writing with requestors on the results, or where particular issues arise that cannot be satisfactorily addressed by subordinate staff. Serves as an expert in the intricacies of the Library’s catalogs and retrieval tools and uses extensive knowledge of both online databases and manual files to satisfy unusual and complex requests for material from many of the Library’s collections. Establishes liaisons in various areas of processing to assist in successful resolution of collections-related problems.

Position: Librarian
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $61,947 – $80,532

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary

This position is located in the Asian and Middle Eastern Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, Discovery and Preservation Services.
The position description number for this position is 058498.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.

Duties

Catalogs a variety of materials in an automated cataloging environment where the cataloging decisions are made according to established standards. Searches entries in automated and manual catalogs. Assigns headings to catalog entries. Selects and assigns classification numbers. Establishes personal and corporate names and uniform titles for inclusion in the name authority file.

Establishes and recommends subject headings for inclusion in the subject authority file and classification schedule. Creates and revises bibliographic records, authority records, and classification schedules. Performs content designation of bibliographic and authority records. Performs research in the cataloger’s reference collection, online databases, the world wide web, and the collections of the Library. Recommends resolutions to problems and inconsistencies in the cataloging process.

Provides a variety of acquisitions services for a broad range of materials with a variety of work flows. Coordinates proper purchasing information, correct bibliographic identification, and correct coding in the acquisitions systems. Contacts dealers, subscription agents, vendors, overseas offices, government agencies, and/or exchange partners to coordinate the order process. Consults acquisition reference material to determine whether recommended item is appropriate for purchase, copyright claim, exchange, gift, loan, or other type of acquisition. Examines recommendations for acquisition to identify processing and custodial requirements and to identify acquisition of out-of-scope materials. Maintains liaison with recommending officials and subject specialists to understand their needs. Consults acquisition reference material to determine whether recommended item is appropriate for purchase. Reviews and approves invoices for payment for all formats of material. Determines availability of funds.

Obtains, analyzes, and organizes information using standard reference tools and established techniques and practices. Analyzes and organizes standard subject data to determine its relationship to the existing collections, for proper main entry, and the need for added entries. Analyzes material to determine subject content. Applies standard rules, guidelines, and reference tools and established techniques and practices. Participates in formulating plans for changes and improvements to cataloging-related issues.

Uses standard methods, techniques, concepts, and principles to perform assignments related to collection development support, with review by supervisor, senior staff and/or recommending officers. Assists in examination of incoming shipments to select items appropriate for the collections, in accordance with established guidelines. Assists in examination of recommendations for acquisition to identify processing and custodial requirements, and to ensure conformity with established guidelines. Participates in formulating plans for changes and improvements to collection development policies.

Works to maintain personal contacts and cooperative work relationships in order to provide or exchange information. Consults with the Section Head and cataloging policy staff to recommend changes and additions in descriptive and subject cataloging rules. Offers suggestions and advice to the Section Head on operational and technical problems. Collaborates with the Section Head and other staff in planning and implementing team activities including: workflow procedures, team priorities, cataloging projects of an experimental nature, goal setting and strategies for meeting team production goals. Assists others inside and outside the Library with language, subject and cataloging problems.

Position: Librarian
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $61,947 – $80,532

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

This position is located in the Asian and Middle Eastern Division, Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate, Discovery and Preservation Services.
The position description number for this position is 058498.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.

Duties

Catalogs a variety of materials in an automated cataloging environment where the bibliographic characteristics of the material are relatively easy to determine and cataloging decisions are made within established standards. Searches entries in automated and manual catalogs. Assigns headings to catalog entries. Selects and assigns classification numbers. Establishes personal and corporate names and uniform titles for inclusion in the name authority file.

Establishes and recommends subject headings for inclusion in the subject authority file and classification schedule. Creates and revises bibliographic records, authority records, and classification schedules. Performs content designation of bibliographic and authority records. Performs research in the cataloger’s reference collection, online databases, the world wide web, and the collections of the Library. Recommends resolutions to problems and inconsistencies in the cataloging process.

Provides services and deals with materials that are non-technical in nature, of limited technical complexity, or easily acquired. Coordinates proper purchasing information, correct bibliographic identification, and correct coding in the information system. Contacts dealers, subscription agents, vendors, overseas offices, government agencies, and/or exchange partners to coordinate the order process. Consults acquisition reference material to determine whether recommended item is appropriate for purchase, copyright claim, exchange, gift, loan, or other type of acquisition. Examines recommendations for acquisition to identify processing and custodial requirements and to identify acquisition of out-of-scope materials. Maintains liaison with recommending officials and subject specialists to understand their needs. Consults acquisition reference material to determine whether recommended item is appropriate for purchase. Reviews and approves invoices for payment for all formats of material. Determines availability of funds.

Obtains, analyzes, and organizes information using standard reference tools and established techniques and practices. Analyzes and organizes standard subject data to determine its relationship to the existing collections, for proper main entry, and the need for added entries. Analyzes material to determine subject content. Applies standard rules, guidelines, and reference tools and established techniques and practices. Participates in formulating plans for changes and improvements to cataloging-related issues.

Uses standard methods, techniques, concepts, and principles to perform assignments related to collection development support, with review by supervisor, senior staff and/or recommending officers. Assists in examination of incoming shipments to select items appropriate for the collections, in accordance with established guidelines. Assists in examination of recommendations for acquisition to identify processing and custodial requirements, and to ensure conformity with established guidelines. Participates in formulating plans for changes and improvements to collection development policies.

Works to maintain personal contacts and cooperative work relationships in order to provide or exchange information. Consults with Team Leader and cataloging policy staff to recommend changes and additions in descriptive and subject cataloging rules. Offers suggestions and advice to Team Leader on operational and technical problems. Collaborates with Team Leader and other staff in planning and implementing team activities including: workflow procedures, team priorities, cataloging projects of an experimental nature, goal setting and strategies for meeting team production goals. Assists others inside and outside the Library with language, subject and cataloging problems.

Position: Assistant Chief, Integrated Library Systems Program Office
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $148,484 – $176,300

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

This position is located in the Integrated Library System Program Office, Digital Services Directorate, Discovery and Preservation Services.
The position description number for this position is 427344.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustment 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.

Duties

The incumbent supervises the work of metadata librarians; applies experience, knowledge and expertise in library and information science and must display knowledge of integrated library systems, implementation and management. The incumbent must be able to plan, manage, analyze and evaluate workflow, data flows, policies, and resolve conflicts and must also be able to communicate and interact orally and in writing with individuals at all levels inside and outside the agency.

Supervises a group of employees performing work up to the GS-14 level. Provides administrative and technical supervision relative to the staff supervised. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-tern priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Observes workers’ performance and demonstrates and conducts work performance critiques.

Provides expert advice to senior management in the development of strategies and decisions with Library-wide implications regarding integrated systems, metadata, and applications development. Supports the Library’s mission and implements and accomplishes strategic and operational goals pertaining to highly visible systems such as the Library’s on-line catalog and descriptive metadata.

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with various high-level individuals, including Members of Congress and their staff, other legislative and executive agencies, vendors, and members of the public. Establishes and maintains close and cooperative working relationships with Library management and officials, government agencies, and other institutions with related interests, in order to advance the programs and objectives of the Library.

Provides a major leadership role in the development of metadata management policies. With the Chief, formulates and administers policies affecting the Integrated Library System Program Office. Develops, evaluates, and implements policy that affect Library-wide programs. Explores and establishes long-range development plans, as well as short-term strategies. Interprets and revises existing training policy and program guidance for use by others, including top management, in wide reaching decision making procedures.

Position: Library Technician (Archiving)
Location: Library of Congress
Salary: $50,643 – $65,831

Full vacancy announcement available on USAJOBS.

Summary

This position is located in the Digital Resources Division, Global Legal Collection Directorate, Law Library.
The position description number for this position is 392691.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metro area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
This position is Indefinite, Not-to-Exceed 13 months.

Duties

Serves as archiving project’s primary point of contact for requesting, receiving, and documenting permissions to publish reports from Members of Congress, Former Members of Congress, and other clients. Maintains effective working relationship with US Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC). Responds with
the highest level of professionalism to FMC communications, Member or Former Member queries, former or current congressional staff queries, and other client queries concerning the permissions process-in writing, by phone, or in person.

Applies established protocols in identifying appropriate point of contact for each request and/or response. Drafts letters from project templates and personalizes them as appropriate for each unique situation. Formulates additional templates as needed. Collects and accurately records permissions-related data in project spreadsheets.

Uses strong interpersonal skills to provide excellent customer service, consistently maintaining the confidentiality of communications.

Uses knowledge of standard, professionally accepted techniques and methods of a library and library systems to retrieve requested items in the collection. Performs complex support work and carries out limited project assignments that involve the use of a variety of specialized technical methods and procedures.

Applies extensive judgment in retrieving and reviewing difficult-to-locate materials. Identifies completeness of processed materials and creates records reflecting missing information and/or materials. Utilizes general legal knowledge, an understanding of the peculiarities of foreign legal systems, and the meaning of different legal concepts to locate and process materials, and to identify problems and deviations in library materials that are difficult to locate or process. These materials may have special requirements. Checks title, author, requester’s name, requester’s affiliation, etc. against recorded information and/or project data requirements, and
identifies conflicting citations or lack of information. When information is incomplete or inaccurate, verifies data, dates, titles, requester names/affiliations, and other information. Records that information in a centralized location to facilitate archiving and publication of the items.

Applies knowledge of the full range of library rules, procedures, and operations to resolve a wide variety of problems relating to managing, maintaining, and securing a voluminous and complex legal and government document collection.

Demonstrates initiative in recognizing and solving problems, inconsistencies, and errors in files and documents; compiles detached documents (reports, covers, and cover letters); identifies items that are erroneously marked, and provides recommendations on process handling to the coordinators of the archiving project.

Sorts, arranges, and relocates incoming or legacy materials (both born-digital and paper) in the various archiving project collection areas. Specializes in handling legal material complicated by personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive subject matter. Based on this knowledge, systematically reads designated reports ensuring items are properly selected, formatted, organized, and documented. Independently rearranges and shifts items in accordance with project specifications for various types of content. Continually updates spreadsheet to ensure each item is properly recorded and can be easily processed.

Records, reviews, and adds metadata elements to selected materials that are unique or unusual. Independently substitutes reformatted pages or entire sections of material to comply with project guidance.

Following extensive library rules, procedures, and operations, processes library collections of historic foreign, comparative, and international law reports prepared by the Law Library of Congress. Distinguishes the types of materials and separates substantive and accompanying documents for processing. Completes appropriate spreadsheets for accessioning, recording, and generating statistical reports.. Prepares materials for digital conversion. Marks and labels legal materials according to their content. Sorts and organizes files and folders, and ensures preservation of
processed legal materials.

Performs unique searches in specialized online databases, such as library-related databases including the Library’s Online Catalog, to locate and/or verify the existence of records for available materials.

Ensures bibliographic data elements are accurate and inputs information into software applications reflecting item-level control of the material.

Position: Director of University Libraries
Location: Howard University

Full vacancy announcement available on ALA Joblist.

Howard University invites applications and nominations for the Director of University Libraries.

Howard University is one of the nation’s leading research universities dedicated to educating students from diverse backgrounds, with a particular focus on African-American students, as well as those of all other racial and ethnic groups from the United States and the world. Howard is one of only 48 U.S. private, doctoral/research-extensive universities. Its 12,000 students enjoy academic pursuits in more than 130 areas of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. These students come from 53 U.S. states and territories, including the District of Columbia, and 53 nations.

The Director of Libraries reports to the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the University and is the chief administrator for the University Library System. This position is a full-time staff position at the senior management level. The director is responsible for the operations, and management of the resources of the system; providing direction and commitment for the teaching, learning and research agenda of libraries in concert with the direction of the undergraduate, graduate and professional educational programs; development of relationships to ensure the continuous commitment to the academic programs and mission of the University; fundraising; provide creative leadership; and the development of staff.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience building infrastructure
• Demonstrated communication skills with both faculty and students
• Evidence of having built an accessible team
• Demonstrated library leadership
• Administrative success
• Successful grantsmanship

To learn more about the university and the position, please visit the position profile at:
https://academicsearch.org/open-searches-public/

Application and Nomination Process
The university is being assisted by Academic Search, Inc. Applications should consist of a substantive cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and a list of five professional references with full contact information. References will not be contacted without the explicit permission of the candidate. Applications, nominations, and expressions of interest can be submitted electronically, and in confidence, to: HowardLib@academicsearch.org.
Confidential discussions about this opportunity may be arranged by contacting senior consultant John W. Garland (john.garland@academicsearch.org). The position is open until filled, but only applications received by July 29, 2022 can be assured full consideration.