Metadata Initiatives Librarian

Accountabilities & Supporting Activities

• Metadata Creation, Maintenance & Interoperability (30%)
• Perform cataloging and metadata creation for traditional formats, digital assets, datasets, and special collections.
• Data Preparation: Explicitly prepare and normalize data for reuse in shared environments and consortial discovery layers.
• Standards: Work with MARC, BIBFRAME, Dublin Core, RDF, RDA, and LCSH.
• Lead reparative description initiatives to address harmful language in legacy metadata, ensuring that finding aids and catalog records reflect contemporary standards.
• Metadata Automation and Strategic Discovery (30%)
• Library Metadata Teamwork: Works with the metadata team to ensure a high catalog quality, especially as it pertains to batch work. Tools like Python, OpenRefine, MarcEdit, and APIs will be leveraged to automate batch processing and prepare records for complex, shared discovery environments
• Quality Assurance: Analyze bibliographic/metadata problems and help lead the team toward automated or batch-process resolutions *Community Engagement: Actively participate in open-source communities and user groups to influence the development of library services platforms and metadata tools.
• Collaborative Design: Partner with Arts and Libraries and ITS to integrate metadata into new systems, focusing on API-driven workflows and microservices.
• Consortial Initiatives: Represent the library in regional and national technical committees to develop shared metadata standards and inter-institutional data-sharing protocols.
• Project Leadership: Lead projects that maximize efficiencies in data migration, mapping, and transformation.
• University Research Impact Support (20%)
• Serves on the Data Management Group, communicating with faculty and researchers regarding metadata best practices.
• Leverage semantic web concepts and tools to connect University history with current research output.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify opportunities within the Arts and Libraries to expose Lehigh's cultural assets.
• Persistent Identifiers: Advocate for and implement ORCID iDs, ROR iDs, and DOIs to ensure the university’s research output is globally uniquely identified and linkable.
• Work with Open Knowledge Librarian to facilitate metadata implementation needed for discovery of open resources.
• Documentation, Training & Workflow Design (10%)
• Create and maintain documentation in the internal wiki.
• Train team members on emerging processes and the use of new open-source tools.
• Use institutional project management tools to track and report on progress.
• Work with the Library Technology Team to design and implement new and improved workflows.
• Professional Development & Scholarship (10%)
• Maintain a record of library and information science scholarship and professional engagement.
• Participate in national/international standards development to keep the library at the forefront of the field.

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