APS 4- Senior Library Officer, Collection Management As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library's team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library's future.
The Key Duties Of The Position Include:
The Library has a vacant ongoing Senior Library Officer Collection Description: Published (APS 4) role in the Collection Management Section of the Collection Branch. This role undertakes tasks relating to the processing of collection material including item level metadata ingest and enhancement and cataloguing primarily for published collection material in all formats. In this role you will have technical expertise that contributes to Section goals. This will include facilitating and undertaking tasks relating to the processing and control of collections of material.
This role works with other teams within the Collection Management section including:
Collection Description: Archival which focuses on description processed for commissioned photography, picture and manuscripts. Collection Description: Projects who work with ephemera, posters and oral history including uploading and quality assurance of oral history transcriptions. Skills, capabilities and experience across the teams within the Collection Management Section are similar. There may be opportunity for you to utilise your skills and experience in any of these teams.
This recruitment process will be used to fill an immediate ongoing vacancy. It will also be used to establish a merit pool to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies at the APS 4 level across several teams within the Collection Management section.
Who We Are Looking For:
This is an exciting opportunity for candidates to apply their understanding of collection description and organisational, problem solving and analytical skills to support and advance the work of the National Library of Australia's Collection Branch. We are seeking people who will be able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Be Able To:
Build rapport and liaise with internal and external stakeholders. Contribute to the delivery of team and branch objectives. Manage prioritisation of their own workload, and the allocation of work to others, maintaining accuracy of information and work. Assist in decisions that impact the overall outcomes for the functions of the team they are involved in. Experience and qualifications in any of the following is desirable but not mandatory:
Qualifications in Information Management or Archives. Experience with metadata descriptive standards. Experience in the handling, housing and preparation for storage of paper-based collections and books. Knowledge of contemporary preventive conservation principles. Knowledge and experience of contemporary archival descriptive and processing standards is an advantage. Eligibility:
Applicants should be Australian citizens to be eligible for APS employment. The preferred applicants will be required to successfully undergo a police record check and must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information.
Notes:
We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.
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