CASUAL SPECIALIST JOBS IN NATIONAL LIBRARY BOARD 2011

National Library Board looking for Casual Specialist (Professional Services), latest jobs in singapore 2011

At the National Library Board (NLB), our commitment is to bring the world’s knowledge to Singapore and to create a positive social and economic impact beyond expanding the learning capacity of the nation. Powering the knowledge-based economy with an extensive network of libraries and information centres, NLB offers an environment that fuels your imagination and passion for a rewarding career.

Responsibilities

Implementation and management of metadata practices in NLB

1. Develop and implement application and service profiles for domain-specific content
2. Provide item level and collection level descriptions including collection management
3. Create, edit & audit metadata records including retrospective work
4. Supervise and develop translated metadata records
5. Implement international standards such as IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) in NLB metadata implementation
6. Provide support in digital archival and preservation metadata descriptions

Harvesting of metadata

1. Harvest metadata from internal and external repositories
2. Assist to devise cross-database access such as building crosswalks between multiple formats or enabling standard encoding protocols between repositories
3. Enable interoperability of metadata for cross-domain searching

Search and browse

1. Implement metadata search on NLB Digital Library (DL) and NLB SearchPlus
2. Advice and test implementation of metadata retrieval and display on NLB DL and OPAC

Standards & policies

1. Assist in the development of policies and guidelines
2. Maintain NLB’s metadata standards and policies

Training and mentoring

1. Train and supervise of metadata cataloguers / vendors / editors and staff doing metatagging as their PD KRA
2. Provide On-the-Job training to metadata editors to ensure standard quality of metadata records

Requirements

1. Bachelor Degree with 2 to 5 years of relevant experience
2. Possess library administrative skills
3. Possess skills in interpreting user/clients information needs
4. Possess good command of English and communication skills (writing and speaking)

This is a temporary position.

To apply, please visit our website at http://www.nlb.gov.sg/careers.

We regret that only short-listed candidates will be notified.