Position: Library & Research Services Analyst
Location: Washington, DC
Posted: LLSDC
Salary: $80,500 to $102,650
The Research Analyst will provide high-quality, in-depth legal and non-legal research using online and print resources. The incumbent will support the firm’s practice area teams by providing key actionable insights that can be used to support better decisions through topic-specific research and analytic results.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct high-level, customizable research and analytics in legal, business and other subjects.
- Provide practice, subject, and/or industry research in areas aligned with the firm’s practice and business.
- Provide training on research strategies and resources.
- Develop and deliver presentations to attorney practice groups, colleagues and other departments on research tools and current developments.
- Advise on collection development including new databases, websites and print material.
- Keep up to date on industry current trends and best practices.
- Weekend day coverage is required as part of team rotation.
- Work on special projects or any other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience:
Required:
- MLS from an ALA accredited university or 3 years’ experience in a research environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred:
- JD from an ABA accredited law school or other advanced degree.
- Strong technical skills, including familiarity with MS Office, SharePoint and other related technology tools.
Other Skills and Abilities:
The following will also be required of the successful candidate:
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Good judgment
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to work harmoniously and effectively with others
- Able to preserve confidentiality and exercise discretion
- Able to work under pressure
- Able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities
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The target salary range for this role is:$80,500 to $102,650 if located in Washington, D.C.
Position: Senior Digital Collections Specialist
Location: Washington, DC
Posted: USA Jobs
Salary: $121,785 – $158,322
Summary
The Library of Congress shares its vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and priceless artifacts to cultivate curiosity and spark imagination. We engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.
We seek highly talented professionals to join a vibrant and collaborative community. Your work here will have lasting impact on the Library and its users well into the future.
Duties
This position serves as a Senior Digital Collections Specialist located in the Digital Collections Management and Services Division, Digital Services Directorate, Discovery and Preservation Services at the Library of Congress.
As a Senior Digital Collections Specialist, you will:
- Coordinate, determine, and manage projects for digital collections.
- Serve as a technical expert in the planning, development, management, and execution of digital collections workflow/lifecycle management projects.
- Plan, test, and execute projects that involve acquiring, describing, storing, and providing access to digital content for which the section has custodial responsibility.
- Use knowledge of digital libraries and technical solutions, provide expert analysis and advice and develop solutions to address issues and problems associated with digital collections lifecycle management.
- Provide advice to staff in stakeholder and curatorial units and training to more junior members of the section.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
The position description number for this position is 349876.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a Flexitime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.
Position: Caribbean Area Librarian
Location: Washington, DC
Posted: USA Jobs
Salary: $70,623 – $91,815
Summary
The Library of Congress shares its vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and priceless artifacts to cultivate curiosity and spark imagination. We engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.
We seek highly talented professionals to join a vibrant and collaborative community. Your work here will have lasting impact on the Library and its users well into the future.
Duties
This position serves as a Librarian in the Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, General and International Collections Directorate (GICD), Research And Collections Services (RCS) within the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) at the Library of Congress (LOC) and reports to the Section Supervisor.
As a Caribbean Area Librarian, you will:
- Enable access, discovery, dissemination, and use of collections and resources, current and historical, analog and digital, for all users. Provide support for the identification and selection of sources for those engaged in routine research and maintains connections and life-long learning opportunities for casual users through the discovery and use of the Library’s resources.
- Provide reference and instruction to individual researchers and groups where needs are relatively easy to determine from standard research interviews, in-person or virtually, and the bibliographic source materials are of limited technical complexity. Identify domestic and international analog and digital resources in a field of specialty to address user needs that are easily determined from interviews or written requests. Develop knowledge of resources in other institutions to provide informed referrals. Provide support of limited technical complexity in evolving forms of digital scholarship. Assist users with specialized collections under the direction of senior staff and seeks assistance for locating materials that are not readily accessible.
- Assist with reviewing a wide variety of brochures, catalogs, journals, and other sources for new items and sources for possible acquisition in order to develop collections in areas of subject or geographic responsibility. Assist other staff in determining the quality and usefulness of collection materials. Assist in developing strategies for the organization, storage, preservation, and service of materials. Monitor the condition of collection materials to ensure adherence to established preservation standards and specifications.
- Orient users and explains procedures and regulations governing use and handling of materials in the collection. Coordinate the acquisition of items of limited technical complexity, or those easily acquired, through the online acquisition process. Examine recommendations to identify processing and custodial requirements and to identify out-of-scope materials. Maintain liaison with other recommending officers and subject specialists to coordinate acquisition of materials within and across divisions. Under the direction of senior staff, the incumbent liaises with current and potential researchers and users. Collaborate with others to develop, promote, facilitate, present and evaluate programs to meet the expressed and anticipated needs of researchers and other user communities. Assist with different audiences to achieve a variety of outcomes.
- Assist with research facilitation, book discussions, tours, workshops, orientation sessions, author talks, workshops, consultations, displays, tutorials, and other means of engagement. Assist in developing content for traditional print outlets and social media platforms. Collaborate with the Library’s programs for congressional outreach, visitor engagement, educational outreach, and exhibitions, and with other collections-based programs. Represent and attend workshops, conferences, seminars, or meetings in librarianship and other relevant fields for the purpose of professional development.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Additional proficiency in French is preferred but not required
The position description number for this position is 447804.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a Flexitime work schedule. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.
Position: Librarian, Legislative Branch
Location: Washington, DC
Posted: USA Jobs
Salary: $70,623 – $91,815
Summary
The Library of Congress shares its vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and priceless artifacts to cultivate curiosity and spark imagination. We engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.
We seek highly talented professionals to join a vibrant and collaborative community. Your work here will have lasting impact on the Library and its users well into the future.
Duties
The incumbent uses a specific foreign language to perform the following duties in areas of Cataloging Services, Acquisitions Services, Analyzes and Organizes Information and Materials, Library Collections Development, Consultation and Liaison Services, and Librarian Training and Mentoring.
As the Librarian, you will:
- 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 acquisitions 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 acquisitions 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 preferred access points and the need for additional access points. 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 supervisor and cataloging policy staff to recommend changes and additions in descriptive and subject cataloging rules. Offers suggestions and advice to the supervisor on operational and technical problems. Collaborates with the supervisor 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.
The position description number for this position is 457104.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a Flexitime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.
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