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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The National Agricultural Library has multiple openings for metadata librarians in the Knowledge Services, Data Production, and Information Products Divisions, all positions are located in Beltsville, Maryland.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The job opportunities are open from Tuesday, January 7 through Wednesday, January 20, 2020</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><u>Open to the Public</u> – apply here -- <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usajobs.gov%2FGetJob%2FViewDetails%2F555958200&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbd2fa7504fa84acb4f9308d7946e2466%7Ced5b36e701ee4ebc867ee03cfa0d4697%7C0%7C0%7C637141073112493028&sdata=wf17e9qRLf8tM9f3GMccr24K5hLWrplWptv3MoNrZJg%3D&reserved=0">
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/555958200</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><u>Open for Merit Promotion</u>: Career transition; Current Federal Competitive Service; Individuals with Disabilities; Land and base management; Military spouses; Peace Corps; AmeriCorps, and Vista; Veterans; and Special authorities
– apply here -- <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usajobs.gov%2FGetJob%2FViewDetails%2F555960100&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbd2fa7504fa84acb4f9308d7946e2466%7Ced5b36e701ee4ebc867ee03cfa0d4697%7C0%7C0%7C637141073112493028&sdata=0ddxfWL3gRvq4S0NHWUAO%2FYy3%2B5CRmHdYcqETefruNg%3D&reserved=0">
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/555960100</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Background:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color:#212121">These positions are responsible for creating, acquiring, configuring, and managing metadata for NAL's bibliographic, scientific, and cultural heritage resources. Each position has specific work supporting
the business aspects of NAL's metadata services, which collectively include: stakeholder and customer management, customer-focused business requirements gathering, service/product design and workflow specification, data management planning, and indexing and
cataloging content in agriculture, food, and the related sciences.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Major Duties (collectively described across multiple positions; each position is responsible for a subset of the listed duties):<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Create scientific and bibliographic metadata by using available tools or developing custom transform scripts.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Apply metadata expertise to evaluate, implement, or develop metadata standards for scientific research data and literature.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Contribute metadata expertise for evaluating, implementing, or developing data ingest and search applications.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Index content and create records for AGRICOLA, PubAg, Ag Data Commons, and NAL Digital Collections databases, using indexing and annotation tools, semantic web technology, and natural language processing tools.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Propose revisions and enhancements to the NAL Thesaurus of agricultural terms.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Catalog monographs, serials, audiovisual materials, and maps, using OCLC and Voyager according to either Resource Description and Access (RDA) or Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2) cataloging standards.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Participate in cooperative cataloging and name authority control initiatives with other library and research institutions and organizations on international, national, regional and local levels.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Support NAL’s Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR) data services and data management planning.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Develop and deliver education, training, and outreach materials to specified customer and stakeholder groups.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Participate with stakeholder and customer groups to gather requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN">Advise on developing services, products, and workflows to meet business requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The positions are posted for Grades GS 9-12</b>; travel is not generally required.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Please direct questions to</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Elaine Livingstone</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">703-259-9370<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are competitive positions open to the public, all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. We request that you share this announcement with other potential candidates.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please excuse cross-postings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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