Metadata Librarian for the Humanities - New York University, Division of Libraries

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $75,000 - $115,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 9 months OR for 12 months) and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.

Metadata Librarian for the Humanities

Description

The Metadata Librarian for the Humanities will have primary responsibility for metadata creation and maintenance across a diverse array of humanities-related resources, both physical and digital, within the University’s general, distinctive, and special collections. The Metadata Librarian for the Humanities will develop metadata application guidelines to optimize resource discovery and access, design sustainable metadata strategies, and create and maintain controlled vocabularies to support digital scholarship and open scholarship projects. 

The position will remediate existing outdated descriptive language and promote the development of diverse, inclusive, and equitable metadata through strategic community engagement for resources representing traditionally minoritized communities, including non-Latin script resources. The Metadata Librarian for the Humanities will contribute to the Libraries’ several linked data and linked open data projects and help develop guidelines and tools for institutional and national metadata policies and practices. 

This position has the opportunity to make significant research contributions and to impact the state of knowledge related to a number of areas, including challenges of descriptive practice for increasingly fluid humanistic output; the application of linked and open data to humanistic objects; revision of metadata for more inclusive description, discovery, and access; application of emerging standards of labeling and notices related to cultural protocols; and more.

The Metadata Librarian for the Humanities is a tenure-track faculty position,  reporting to the Metadata Librarian for Non-Latin Script Resources within the department of Knowledge Access. Knowledge Access is one of four departments in the Knowledge Access and Resource Management Services (KARMS) portfolio and provides metadata services to NYU’s campuses in New York, Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi, as well as consortium libraries.

NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative

NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to build a more diverse faculty community that seeks to recruit, welcome, and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism, Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good, and Urban Environments and Politics. This particular position is part of our Transformative Humanities for All: Building and Sharing the Cultural Record cluster. The faculty in this cluster will augment NYU Libraries’ capabilities to support academic and public knowledge production in the humanities and related disciplines at NYU and beyond. 

Positions in this cluster will contribute to NYU’s research mission by building and extending interconnected knowledge, descriptive, curatorial, preservation, and technical services to support and distribute research and inquiry that centers diverse and underrepresented voices in the humanities and performing arts; by ethically developing, serving, and making accessible humanistic outputs within a larger information ecosystem concerned with openness, access, and the changing face of scholarship; and leading the Libraries’ strategic contributions to the work of the emerging field of Public Humanities. 

For full details about the Libraries’ cluster hiring initiative, please visit this link.

At the Division of Libraries, we are proud of our organizational culture and we are ​committed​ ​to​ ​building​ ​and​ ​sustaining​ ​a​ ​diverse,​ ​inclusive,​ ​and equitable​ ​organization​ that supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve. For more about our values, see http://library.nyu.edu/about/general/values/

About New York University Libraries 

Libraries at New York University serve the school’s 40,000 students and faculty and contain more than 5 million volumes. The Libraries supports NYU’s vision to become the first true Global Network University by collaborating with and providing services to our 11 global academic centers and our “portal campuses” in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. New York University Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and the HathiTrust. The Libraries participate in a variety of consortia and collaborate closely with Columbia University Libraries and the New York Public Library through the Manhattan Research Library Consortium. 

The Division of Libraries values diversity among its faculty, is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented communities. We are proud of our organizational culture and are committed​ ​to​ ​building​ ​and sustaining​​ a ​diverse,​ ​inclusive,​ ​and equitable​ ​organization​ that supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve. For more information, view NYU Libraries Strategic Priorities, https://library.nyu.edu/about/general/strategic-priorities/ and Mission and Values, https://library.nyu.edu/about/general/values/

Required:

• Minimum of one graduate degree (master’s level or higher) in a humanities-related field required for consideration. A second graduate degree is required for tenure. One of the two graduate degrees must be an MS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution in library and/or information science
• Knowledge of encoding standards such as MARC and non-MARC (e.g. BIBFRAME, or Dublin Core); experience in original and complex cataloging for a variety of library resources, using content standards such as RDA, LC Subject Headings, and PCC documentation.
• Experience with bibliographic utilities such as OCLC Connexion and ILS/Library Service Platform such as Alma
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility (IDBEA).

Preferred:

• Bibliographic proficiency in at least one non-Latin-script language; Hebrew or Greek preferred
• Working knowledge in at least one non-English European language.
• Knowledge of and experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python).
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with testing AI tools for metadata creation and remediation
• Experience with digital humanities projects and research tools, such as text mining and data visualization
• Experience with metadata remediation tools such as MARCEdit and Open Refine

Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Faculty at NYU, including in the Division of Libraries, have always enjoyed relative flexibility in their work, allowing for hybrid work as appropriate.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as a Full Curator in the academic year 2024-2025 is $110,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as an Associate Curator in the academic year 2024-2025 is $100,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as an Assistant Curator in the academic year 2024-2025 is $90,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as a Library Associate in the academic year 2024-2025 is $90,000.

To ensure consideration, submit your Diversity Statement, CV or resume, and Cover Letter, including the name, address, and telephone number of three references. NYU Division of Libraries requires all candidates for this position to supply a statement demonstrating their dedication to inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging as part of their application. Access the Diversity Statement prompt here https://nyu.box.com/v/diversity-statement.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received by December 1, 2024.

For more information on this position, an information session (optional and anonymous to attendees) will be held on Monday, November 11th, 2024, 3 pm EST.

Register for the information session here: https://fall-2024-info-session.eventbrite.com

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