Librarian - Audiovisual and Preservation

BarnAllen has an immediate need for a full-time Librarian (Audiovisual & Preservation) for a project located in Bethesda, MD with the National Library of Medicine. The qualified candidate will provide a range of library services needed to properly maintain its collections and reformat collection materials to preserve and make them accessible to the public.

Position Duties

• Assist staff librarians, library technicians, and library clerks on the Audiovisual Preservation team at the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Develop, maintain, edit and analyze a quality assurance and quality control program with methods to ensure all staff accurately meet the goals and requirements of the contract in a medical library setting.
• Operate production-level scanners to digitize library collection materials.
• Develop and edit written instructions and documentation and provide instruction and training to library collection maintenance staff to perform scanning and image processing.
• Assign and review work, delegating tasks as appropriate
• Perform quality assurance of scanning operations and post-processing activities.
• Complete monthly reports statistics, scheduling and coordinating meetings.
• Conduct re-work for files not meeting project requirements.
• Retrieve, track and return batches of materials to be digitized.

Requirements

• Two years of experience scanning library materials, processing images, and performing QA/QC on images and metadata.
• Have ability to plan assign, evaluate work or paraprofessional staff.
• Ability to distinguish between analog and digital media formats
• Experience with inventorying, description, handling and inspection of film, video and audio formats.
• Familiarity with media history and media technologies from the late 19th century to the present day.
• Understanding of core digital preservation best practices for audiovisuals that have been digitally reformatted
• Understanding of audiovisual metadata standards such as PBCore
• US Citizenship
  

Education and Specialized Experience

• Master's degree in library science, Information Science or related field.
• Meet qualification requirements established by the American Library Association (ALA) and/or Medical Library Association (MLA)
• Experience using command line and open-source tools for the inspection of digital file assets (MediaArea’s QCTools or MediaConch, for example)
• Experience using Digital Asset Management system such as AirTable
• Some working knowledge of National Library of Medicine (NLM) preferred