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Job Description:

• Coordinate between project personnel and staff in Technical Services who are responsible for cataloging policies and practices that might intersect with the work of the project, technical staff from the Libraryâ™s Digital Library Development Center who are responsible for building the online portal, and archivists in Special Collections who handle manuscript deposits.

• Coordinate and manage the overall workflow of the project to accomplish all the project goals, including creating documentation and timelines, problem solving, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring that the project aligns with best practices for the handling of heritage collections.

• Work with depositors to prepare materials for deposit and, where relevant, supervise student workers and interns helping individual depositors.

• Supervise the projectâ™s metadata work by working with staff and depositors to create, apply, enhance and standardize metadata records.

• Work with faculty and graduate students with domain expertise to identify materials from unknown languages and locations, flag copyright and ethical issues, and do other research that will inform the creation of catalog records or the functionality of the online portal.

• Interacts with faculty, researchers and staff for committee work or information.

• Uses general understanding and experience to administer the delivery of services to program participants and/or beneficiaries.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Masterâ™s level degree from ALA-accredited program.

• Post-graduate degree (M.A., M.S., Ph.D.) in Latin American Studies or a related field such as Anthropology or Linguistics.

Experience:

• Experience with digital exhibition and content management systems.

• Background in Mesoamerican languages or cultures.

• Experience with archival collections in indigenous languages

• Experience with project management..

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Understanding of the principles of metadata description and skill with major metadata standards and controlled vocabularies, including Dublin Core, MARC.

• Understanding of the principles of controlled vocabularies and entity identifier systems and ability to work with linguistic and/or geographic controlled vocabularies.

• Ability to read, write, and speak Spanish.

Preferred Competencies

• Strong written and oral communication and collaboration skills.

• A good understanding of the accepted principles and standards of descriptive metadata and controlled vocabularies, as well as familiarity with applying metadata to heritage collections.

• A deep interest in the goals of the project, the complexities involved in describing and archiving heterogeneous materials and supporting user-friendly discovery, and the importance of best practices for working with heritage collections.

• Capable of working effectively with donors.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)

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