CDL: Bibliographic Specialist for English Language Materials at Harvard University

Position Announcement: Bibliographic Specialist for English Language Materials
at Harvard University

Business Title:      Bibliographic Specialist for English Language Materials


Overview:             The Bibliographic Specialist for English-language
Resources works in close collaboration with staff responsible for
English-language Collection Development and Harvard Library Information and
Technical Services to oversee vendor approval plans and manage the
English-language collections in Widener Library.
 
Typical Duties and Responsibilities:  include the following:

The position will work with the library directors and collection development
librarians to: 

·         Analyze and adjust budget allocations, including approval plans and
subscriptions, and make purchase decisions to ensure alignment with current
research and teaching needs. 

·         Liaise with vendors to implement appropriate acquisitions processes
and approval plans. 

·         Develop best practices for continuations received as part of exchange
programs, approval plans, or blanket orders. 

·         Review, search, and make selections from current vendor notification
slips and other sources, as identified by and in conjunction with staff
responsible for English-language collections. 

·         Review receipts and assign funds for materials arriving through
English-language approval plans at Harvard Library Information and Technical
Services. 

·         Review and implements patron requests. 

·         Communicate with vendors to claim unfulfilled orders and provide
feedback on vendor services 

·         Complete retrospective and other collection development and management
related projects.

Basic Qualifications             

·         Bachelor's degree, and a Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited
program for library and information science, required.

·         Minimum of 1-2 years of relevant professional experience required. 

·         Extensive familiarity with bibliography, publishing, and book trades
in at least two major English-language   countries and experience with book
selection required. 

·         Must have demonstrated understanding of the scholarly research and
publishing process.

·         Familiarity with bibliographic searching in HOLLIS/Aleph,
English-language vendor databases, and with the conventions of cataloging and
bibliographic description.

Additional Qualifications   

·         Second graduate degree in the Humanities and Social Sciences preferred.

·         Ability to work successfully in a highly collaborative environment.

·         Must be able to sit and keyboard for extended periods of time on a
daily basis. 

·         Occasionally lifting or pushing of boxes weighing up to 20 lbs or
pushing book truck up to 40 lbs.


Additional Information

Founded in 1638, Harvard has a rich legacy of libraries that continues into the
21st century. In total there are over 70 libraries at Harvard that comprise the
Harvard library system, with combined holdings of over 16 million items. More
than 11 million of those items are part of the collection of a centrally
administered unit within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is referred to as
the Harvard College Library (HCL). It is comprised of Widener, Lamont, Birkhoff
Mathematical, Cabot Science, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Fine Arts, Fung,
Harvard-Yenching, Houghton, Loeb Music, Physics Research, and Tozzer libraries
and the Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Map Collection, and the Harvard Theatre
Collection.

 

Please submit your resume and cover letter on-line:
http://www.employment.harvard.edu/

·         Click on the appropriate link under “Search  Harvard Jobs” to the
right of the page

·         Scroll down to Search Library openings

·         Enter 27831BR in the Auto req ID field

 

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