[LIBJOBS] Metadata and Cataloging Specialist, ICFA, Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC)

Metadata and Cataloging Specialist, Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC

 

Dumbarton Oaks is (http://www.doaks.org/) seeking a Metadata and Cataloging Specialist for its Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) (http://www.doaks.org/library/icfa.html). Reporting to the Manager of the ICFA, the Metadata and Cataloging Specialist will work closely with the Byzantine Assistant Curator and the Archives Specialist to provide greater access to the ICFA’s holdings by establishing intellectual control over its multi-media collections. For this position, Dumbarton Oaks seeks a collaborative, user-focused information professional dedicated to providing access to analog and digital collections through metadata creation and data management. The Metadata and Cataloging Specialist will play a leading role in devising and implementing metadata migration strategies associated with ongoing digitization efforts. The position is a limited term appointment of one year (12 months), with the potential for renewal.

For a full list of requirements and position description, please see our website at: http://www.doaks.org/about/doaks_position_2011_01_31.html. To apply, please send a resume and letter of application detailing relevant qualifications to jobs2010@doaks.org or fax to 202-337-5940 by February 28, 2011.

Located in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute of Harvard University dedicated to supporting scholarship internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships, symposia, exhibitions, and publications. The ICFA supports scholarship in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape studies by acquiring, organizing, preserving, cataloging, and providing access to images in various media; documentation, both textual and visual, of archaeological surveys and excavations; and papers of noteworthy scholars in the three disciplines.

 

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Shalimar Abigail Fojas White

Manager, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20007

Tel. 202.339.6972; Email WhiteS@doaks.org