From: Mark Beatty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:28 PM
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Subject: [lita-l] position announcement, wisconsin

Please take note of this open position and pass it along to all who might be interested.  Thank you.

Mark

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Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)* has an immediate vacancy for an OCLC** Services Librarian. This position is responsible for providing support and training to WiLS Member library staff statewide on a variety of OCLC products and services with the focus on cataloging, metadata, and the on-going integration of OCLC's products and services with local automated systems. Responsibilities are wide-ranging and require considerable computer skills as well as the ability to communicate effectively with WiLS members. This position serves as resource person for WiLS members, providing training, support and leadership in the areas of: national and international descriptive, technical and administrative metadata standards; integrated library system tables and system application developments as they integrate with OCLC products; changes in traditional cataloging, such as the shift from MARC/AACR2 to RDA and changes in information organization; and strategies for integrating new technologies and services into existing library workflows. The position is responsible for on-going assessment of member training needs and for developing appropriate responses to meet those needs including presentations, consulting and contracting for outside expertise as necessary. The position requires some travel including overnight. The position reports to the WiLS Director.

*WiLS is an independent organization based in Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, providing services in the areas of shared bibliographic information, resource sharing, continuing education and training and other cooperative activities relating to the changing nature of information technology for all types of libraries in Wisconsin.
** OCLC is an international not-for-profit library cooperative organization headquartered in Ohio providing computer-based services for which WiLS is the Wisconsin agent

See the full description and details at:

http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_057250.html