ASU Library

The Librarian for Metadata Operations and Services serves a critical role in providing the ASU community with seamless access to the Library's extensive collection of print and digital resources. Reporting to the Unit Head for Acquisitions and Metadata Services, the Librarian, Metadata Operations and Services provides strategic direction and supervision to a team of metadata staff and is responsible for hiring, training, and evaluating team members. Working collaboratively with Library colleagues and community partners, this position leads and coordinates initiatives to optimize resource discovery by fostering workflow innovation and implementing recognized and emerging metadata standards. The position also directs and manages the unit's authority control activities and the Library's participation in national cooperative programs.

The ASU Library is a center of energy, imagination, and innovation, with nine library facilities across four ASU campus locations. We provide students and faculty access to millions of information resources, world-class collections, outstanding study spaces, advanced data centers, and a suite of maker spaces and creative services. ASU Library strongly supports student success and is a critical partner in realizing the New American University's mission of access, excellence, and impact. Success at ASU is measured not by whom we exclude but rather by whom we include and how they succeed.

Essential Functions

• Provides strategic direction for resource description activities across formats and platforms and assesses the application of technology to enhance discovery and foster efficient, innovative workflows.
• Provides leadership, mentoring and supervision to Metadata staff. Evaluates staff performance and supports professional development and training initiatives.
• Plans, implements, and coordinates metadata projects to support current and future discoverability objectives. Gathers and analyzes data with the goal of enhancing metadata design and supporting retrieval and discovery.
• Creates and manages metadata for all formats using Resource Description and Access, MARC, non-MARC and emerging standards. Coordinates metadata enhancement, normalization, and transformation projects.
• Cultivates library-wide collaborations by engaging colleagues to inform and support metadata services work. Effectively manages inclusive user expectations while maintaining positive and productive relationships.
• Provides direction and goal setting for the Library's authority control activities. Evaluates vendor services in relation to local requirements and performs authority-related maintenance in the library catalog.
• Serves as the ASU Library's Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) liaison and reviews and revises submissions to the PCC's name and subject authority components.
• Participates in the creation, development, and implementation of unit and team policies and procedures; helps set unit/team goals and priorities within the framework of the ASU Library goals and priorities, and assists in the creation, development, and maintenance of tools and resources used by Acquisitions and Metadata staff.
• Performs and/or manages other responsibilities as assigned.
• Participates in professional contribution and service activities.