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Job Opportunity: Library Specialist, Archives @ Macalester College
Overview
The Dewitt Wallace Library at Macalester College is seeking to hire an Archives Specialist. This position performs essential collection management functions, including processing, accessioning, creating archival finding aids, and preservation of archival materials. The Archive Specialist assists the College Archivist in all other day-to-day activities of the Archives, including evaluating potential new collections for the Archives; providing reference services, outreach, and instruction; supervising student assistants; and supporting the College’s records management needs. This position serves as a member of the Collection Development and Discovery team and reports to the College Archivist.
About The Archives:
The purpose of the Macalester College Archives, housed in the library, is to preserve for research the historically valuable materials which document the origins, development, activities, and achievements of the College since its inception in 1874. The College Archives collections include newspapers, reports, meeting minutes, administrative records, student organization materials, scrapbooks, photos, audio and video recordings, buttons, posters, born-digital materials, email correspondence, social media posts, and more.
Responsibilities
Archival Organization:
- Arranges and describes archival collections in accordance with accepted standards and practices.
- Prepares detailed contextual descriptions (finding aids) of archival collections to facilitate discoverability and use by researchers and patrons.
- Carries out preservation program for the diverse types of materials related to the history of the College, both print and digital, including paper, audio and visual materials, photographs, slides, digital images, web pages, and digital archives files. Performs basic physical preservation work such as rehousing of collections in archival-quality storage materials and enclosures, assessing collection conditions, removing staples, and re-foldering.
- Digitizes archival materials and creates metadata according to pertinent local, national, and international standards.
- Collaborates on digital projects, physical and digital exhibits, publications, presentations, instructional sessions, and other outreach activities.
- Performs other essential collections management work, including verifying and updating inventories; shifting collections; paging and shelving; and sorting and filing publications and other print materials.
- Implements and follows archives policies and procedures.
- Consistently performs work with attention to detail and in a timely and accurate manner meeting the needs of the library as well as community demands.
Reference and Research Services:
- Provides reference services and research assistance for researchers regarding the use of archival collections. Researchers may include both campus community and outside patrons.
Supervise Student Employees
- Assists with direction of student employee workflow and training.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience, minimum of 1 year of experience working with archival collections highly desirable.
- Associate’s Degree required; Library Information Technology field of study preferred.
- Demonstrated commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity. Actively engaged in learning and practicing principles of social justice and inclusion to increase individual capacity to support institutional changes that create and sustain a more welcoming and inclusive environment across the Macalester Community.
- Knowledge of or experience with standard archival principles and practices, especially metadata standards and best practices for processing analog and digital collections.
- Ability to follow and document core policies and procedures.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to work effectively and creatively independently as well as in a dynamic team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science, History, or related discipline preferred. Two years or more of experience working in archives, libraries, museums, public history or research setting will be considered as a substitute for some of the above preferred education.
- Ability to evaluate collections to determine origin, importance, and condition of materials for appraisal and preservation.
- Capability to plan and manage multiple projects, including developing workflows, writing documentation, and training and supervising student assistants.
- Experienced with standard computing applications for productivity and communication. Ability to adopt, implement and teach new technologies and library systems.
Compensation & Benefits:
This is a full-time, 1.0 position with Macalester’s full benefits package and an annual starting salary of $44,000-$49,000.
Application Guidelines:
To be considered, please apply via Macalester’s Employment Webpage and submit your resume with your pdf in one document by March 1st. No applications will be received after this date.
All inquiries about this position can be addressed to:
Jaclyn Howard
Talent Acquisition Manager
Macalester College - Institutional Overview
Since its founding in 1874, Macalester has provided students with the inspiration, insight, and experience to become successful and ethical leaders. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, Macalester enrolls nearly 2,100 students who come from virtually every state and 91 countries. Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college known for its high standards of scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
Macalester is proud of its longstanding commitment to social justice and creating a safe environment for all people regardless of sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, gender, religion, age, or ability. Macalester is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic staff committed to working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from everyone who would add richness to our community, including people of color, individuals with disabilities and women.
Benefits
Macalester employees enjoy a fantastic benefits package and working environment that is second to none. Please visit http://www.macalester.edu/
Our Commitment to Safety in response to COVID-19:
For the safety of our community, Macalester requires all employees to have received a COVID-19 vaccine. Should a newly hired employee be unable to receive the vaccination for either medical or religious reasons we offer accommodations and assistance.
Questions or concerns about this process should be directed to Bob Graf, Director of Employment Services, at rgraf@macalester.edu
Friday, February 11, 2022
Job Opportunity: Library Accessibility Specialist
Library Accessibility Specialist
Job Summary
Minimum Qualifications
- Willingness to learn more about accessibility standards, technologies, and universal design principles and applications
- Team player with proven ability to build trustful relationships and to work in diverse teams
- Education and experience: High School diploma and 2 years relevant experience or a bachelor's degree and 1 year of relevant experience. OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience are required
- Excellent customer service skills are important to the position in order to serve the customer in a positive, calm, courteous, and efficient manner.
- Experience working with diverse populations
- The ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing in the English language sufficient to determine and respond to the informational needs of clients with varied educational, complexity levels, and diverse backgrounds
- The ability to train, direct and evaluate student employees
- The ability to work within a team; be amenable to cross-training; and build good working relationships with other staff, faculty, students and the general public
- Regular and punctual attendance is essential to this position
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of and experience applying universal design to documents and other created content
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Strong computer skills
- Certification or coursework in accessibility standards and/or technologies
- Experience in a library
- Demonstrated familiarity or experience with accessibility standards and guidelines
- Demonstrated familiarity or experience with accessibility technologies and techniques
For more information about this job opportunity and to apply:
- Search "Library Technician" under "External Applicants" https://mn.gov/mmb/careers/
- Job ID: 52824
- Review the job description and select the Apply button to begin your application.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Job Posting: Library Technicians at Community Colleges in the North Metro
Library Technician at Anoka Ramsey Community College
(Cambridge Campus and Coon Rapids Campus)
POSITION PURPOSE
As an integral part of the educational process, the mission of the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Library is to provide curriculum resources and access to broader materials and instruction about a variety of learning resources. The College Libraries have a service philosophy which promotes equitable and inclusive access to, and instruction on, information for students, staff and faculty. While our print and online collections primarily support the college curriculum, they also allow for personal enrichment and professional development. The collections reflect a diversity of viewpoints, academic abilities, and cultural backgrounds.
This position provides oversight for the following areas: Circulation, Technical Processing, Course Reserves, and Interlibrary Loan, and assists with hiring and training of student workers. As such, the Library Technician will help foster a welcoming atmosphere by answering inquiries on services and resources, ensuring materials are efficiently processed and maintained, and working collaboratively with library faculty and college personnel.
The home campus for this position is the Cambridge Campus with some occasional travel possible to the Coon Rapids Campus. The Library Technician will work four five-hour shifts Monday – Thursday, including two evening shifts as needed.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Working knowledge of library classification system(s) and standard library reference tools sufficient to assist clients in locating materials and conducting research
- Ability to apply and support detailed coding or cataloging systems sufficient to create tracking for new print and non-print library acquisitions and locate and replace existing materials.
- Ability to operate personal computers, use various software and web-based applications, and other office equipment sufficient to locate catalog information, word-process documents, complete forms and prepare reports.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing sufficient to determine and respond to the informational needs of clients of varied educational levels and backgrounds; to train, direct and evaluate work of student clerical staff; and to assist the professional library staff to maintain the library collection according to library policy and procedures.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with constituents in a diverse multicultural and multiracial community.
- Library Information Technology degree, certificate, or related coursework/experience
- Academic library work experience
- Work experience using library catalogs and databases such as Alma, OCLC and MnPALS systems
- Appropriate experience in technical processing, filing, reference, and circulation.
- Knowledge of inter-library networks, copyright guidelines and location sufficient to coordinate
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY:
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Job Posting: Macalester College, Circulation, ILL & User Experience Specialist
Overview
Responsibilities
- Leads circulation operations including patron support, checkout of all materials and equipment, services, policies, systems, and workflow.
- Leads circulation functionality development of Integrated Library System (ILS), including loan rules, patron account management, fines and fees, and related analytics.
- Coordinates, develops, and improves library circulation services via ILS system, providing support for scholarly research needs of faculty, students and staff.
- Oversees library billing and accounting for patron fines. Resolves situations and problems with individual borrowers relating to lost/overdue materials by interpreting library policy and striving for resolution that leads to an improved understanding of community stewardship for library resources. Liaison to college Business Services office for matters relating to billing/crediting of student accounts, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in exchange of information so as to enable clear communication with students regarding account issues.
- Shares responsibility with day and evening/weekend service desk supervisors for ensuring excellent overall service desk staffing and daily operations as well as ensuring the building is opened and closed as the daily schedule dictates.
- Supervises interlibrary loan lending functions, ensuring prompt processing and lending of materials in support of the scholarly community at-large. Acquires and maintains knowledge of lending functions in all ILL systems.
- Supports and helps lead user experience (UX) strategies for library service point and building as part of our overall UX program.
- Helps oversee and support stack maintenance and physical collection shelving and shifting.
- Periodically staffs public service points providing assistance and excellent service to faculty, staff, students and community patrons needing help with library collections and services.
- Co-manages ~65 student employees for the Service Desk operations including hiring, training, scheduling, preparing, and maintaining documentation for student work assignments and policies, and performance reviews. Directs their workflow on a daily basis, including the use of sophisticated library systems.
- Develops, mentors, and trains service desk student employees on basic circulation, reserves, and interlibrary loan services. Assists in training Evening/Weekend library service desk staff.
- Coordinates day-to-day building, facilities, and security needs.
- Creates timely statistical reports relating to use of library collections and services, fulfilling the needs of library assessment program and reporting requirements of external constituencies. Mines computing systems such as our ILS and gate count system to gather data for reporting and process improvement.
- Provides occasional back up on all functions of Reserves, and Interlibrary Loan borrowing.
Qualifications
- Associate’s degree.
- Customer service experience, attention to detail, high level of accuracy, and ability to perform work in a timely and accurate manner.
- Experience with standard technical applications for productivity, communication, and data tracking.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Demonstrates the commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity. Actively engages in learning and practicing principles of social justice and inclusion to increase individual capacity to support institutional changes that create and sustain a more welcoming and inclusive environment across the Macalester Community.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- A minimum of 2 years library (or related campus) experience is strongly preferred.
- Supervisory and training skills and experience.
- Experience with specialized library systems.
- Demonstrated organizational, assessment, project management, process improvement and problem solving skills.