Access, Metadata & Operations Coordinator – 1026763-6689

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Operations Coordinator

College of Law Library

Job Summary

The Access, Metadata & Operations Coordinator will perform a wide range
of library duties, including communication, coordination, and
supervisory duties for Access, Metadata & Operations in a large academic
law library environment. Reporting to the Director for Administration,
this position will manage day-to-day operations and play a key role in
providing access to the Law Librarys collections.

Duties & Responsibilities

– Leadership and Program Management:

Develop and deliver strategic direction to staff teams in access,
circulation, cataloging, metadata, operations, and serials

Develop and lead implementation of best practices and standards
relating to access, circulation, cataloging, metadata, and library
operations functions in a large academic law library while being
aware of peer practices

Direct quality control to ensure consistency in patron service
interactions

Plan and lead library physical collection organization, shifting,
and maintenance

Coordinate and supervise the Cataloging units daily operations,
including but not limited to original cataloging, copy cataloging,
and batch processing of eBooks, eJournals, databases, datasets,
streaming audio and video..

Manages the development and implementation of metadata strategies
that support the discovery of electronic collections.

Leads the unit to investigate, experiment with, and implement new
approaches and/or batch processes for creating and manipulating
bibliographic data, including extended and creative uses of metadata
and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

Participate in teams with library faculty and work independently to
provide reference services and library orientations to students,
staff, and patrons

Teach instructional workshops and provide technical support for
information resources such as bibliographic citation managers,
research guides, and library databases

Conduct inventory functions and share updated information with
library faculty, the College of Law Assistant Dean for
Administration, and others

Provides intellectual leadership and contributes nationally to the
development of emerging cataloging standards and maintains currency
with issues in bibliographic and authority control, information
organization, and metadata encoding standards

Coordinate with the College of Law Assistant Dean for Administration
to draft and implement emergency plans

– Library Process Innovation:

Innovate to improve findability and navigability in the Law Library

Design and maintain faculty scholarship databases for law faculty,
monitor scholarly communication H-index scores, and track faculty
publications, e.g., Illinois Experts, ORCID, HeinOnline, etc.

Compile and interpret library use statistics for inclusion in
reports to the Provost and to national and regional research library
organizations

– External Representation and Communication:

Liaise with the University Library to assess and respond to needs
and concerns related to circulation, billing, and interlibrary loan

Liaise with University Library, Google, LLMC, and other entities to
plan, coordinate, and execute digitization projects for the law
library and consortium partners

Work with University Library systems staff to configure circulation
functions of the integrated library system and other related
systems, including self-checkout software

Represent the Law Library through committees with local, regional,
and national partners, including the American Association of Law
Libraries and the American Library Association

Be on call for evening and weekend shifts to provide direction in
case of an emergency or lack of coverage

Physical Demands

Walking : Occasionally

Stairs : Occasionally

Sitting : Frequently

Lifting/Carrying : Occasionally

Pushing/Pulling : Occasionally

Bending/Stooping : Occasionally

Kneeling : Occasionally

Squatting/Crouching : Occasionally

Additional Physical Demands

Minimum Qualifications

1) High school diploma or equivalent.

2) Any combination totaling four (4) years (48 months) from the
following categories:

A. work experience in a library or equivalent setting.

B. college course work in any field as measured by the following
conversion table:

30 semester hours equals one (1) year (12 months)

Associates Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen months (18
months)

90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)

Bachelors Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years (36
months)

3) A total of two (2) years (24 months) work experience in a library or
equivalent setting performing progressively more responsible work
consistent with the next lower level of this series.

Preferred Qualifications

ALA-accredited masters degree in Library and/or Information