Print

Print
1. [LIBJOBS] Assistant Music Librarian, Cornell University; Ithaca, NY, United States
2. Re: [MUSEUM-L] Fellowship Opportunities

Cornell University Library

Assistant Music Librarian

Cornell University Library seeks a creative, knowledgeable, and user-oriented Assistant Music Librarian who will provide leadership in music technical services and will contribute to the public service mission of the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance.  Responsibilities include original and complex copy cataloging for audio-visual materials, coordination of day-to-day music technical services work, collection development for audio-visual materials, instruction, reference and consultation for a wide range of users, and maintaining the Music Library web site.  The successful candidate will be comfortable in exploring emerging technologies and standards for music descriptions and access, and will welcome working in a collegial and collaborative environment.

 Position Description: In close consultation with the Music Librarian and under the direction of the Director of the Cataloging Division, the Assistant Music Librarian has a holistic role that facilitates access to Music Library materials and services by creating original, user-centered, discovery metadata to support enduring access to Music Library materials received in all formats, with a focus on non-print materials; coordinates the day-to-day work of technical services support staff for the Music Library’s collections; provides collection development, instruction, outreach, and reference services for the Music Library; and maintains the Music Library’s web site.  The Assistant Music Librarian coordinates, consults, or assists with special projects related to organizing Music resources, both circulating and rare, for effective use.  The Assistant Music Librarian actively participates in appropriate professional activities at the local, regional, and national levels.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

Music Library Technical Services (50%)

* Coordinates the day-to-day work of staff responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, and processing of music library materials.  As needed, trains staff in standards-based rules used in the description of music materials.  Provides quality control review as necessary.  Guides and advises staff in acquisitions procedures for Music Library audio-visual resources.  Oversees processing of music items, and assists in writing or editing unit technical services documentation.

* In consultation with the Music Librarian and CLO staff, recommends implementation of new and emerging technologies as they pertain to music retrieval.  Creates permanent original machine-readable bibliographic, authority, and holdings records in the MARC format based on an in-depth understanding of appropriate cataloging standards, focusing primarily on audio-visual resources for the Music Library’s collections.  Participates in the NACO music funnel project.  Consults with the music print resources cataloger on cataloging issues.  Given the position’s mix of duties and allowing for special circumstances, annually produces a reasonable share of the quantity of original cataloging, in a timely manner and with few errors that impede searching and retrieval in the online catalog. 

 * Serves as department liaison between the Music Librarian, the Music Library staff, and CLO.

Music Library Public Services and Collection Development  (40%)

Provides reference services to the public at the Music Library reference desk, as well as through individual consultations.  Fosters classroom and research use by Cornell faculty, students, and other researchers through instruction sessions, workshops, and public presentations.   In close consultation with the Music Librarian and Music faculty, evaluates and selects new audio-visual materials for the Music Library collection.

 

Professional Activities (10%)

 

Keeps abreast of, and contributes as appropriate to, current developments in the profession.  Examples include new and emerging technologies, especially as they apply to the organization of library music collections, both physical and virtual; changes in rules, best practices, and standards used in information organization; and emerging forms of resource description.  Actively participates in CUL working groups, task forces, instruction programs, and committees.  Seeks out appropriate roles in technical services or other professional committees, research, and/or publication on the regional, national or international level.

 

Supervision of Others: Coordinates the day-to-day work of music technical services staff.  May have functional supervisory responsibilities for other staff or for student works as department needs dictate.

 

Required Qualifications:  M.L.S. or equivalent from an ALA-accredited university and an academic music background.  Graduate-level training in Music is desirable. Interest in and knowledge of a wide variety of music genres.  A graduate degree at the master’s level or above, plus demonstrated library expertise, may be substituted for the M.L.S.  Three years or more of relevant work experience, preferably in a research-level music library.  Native-level fluency in English with excellent oral and written communication skills. Reading knowledge of at least one, but preferably two, foreign languages (German preferred).  Demonstrated interest in technical services and music library issues on the regional, national or international level.  Demonstrated supervisory, communication, and interpersonal skills.  Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team setting. Demonstrated ability to manage projects successfully. Evidence of ability to plan, to analyze, and to solve problems creatively and flexibly, both independently and in groups, and to succeed in a complex, rapidly changing environment. Strong service orientation and interest in library users' values and needs.

 

Background:  Cornell University is an Ivy League comprehensive research university located in Ithaca in the scenic Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.  The town and university offer a unique cosmopolitan and international atmosphere in a beautiful natural setting of waterfalls, gorges, and lakes.  The university comprises 14 schools with 2600 faculty members and 20,000 students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional schools.  The Cornell University Library is a vigorous professional organization with a strong track record in innovation and service quality.  It contains nearly 8 million printed volumes, 62,000 current serials, 378,000 networked electronic resources, and rich materials in other formats.  The Library was a recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in 2002.

 

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including 22 vacation days, 11 paid holidays, health insurance, life insurance, and university retirement contributions (TIAA-CREF and other options).  Professional travel funding available.

 

Application Procedure:  Applications requested by May 3, 2010. To apply for this position go to http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs/, search under the job category of Librarians, and select posting number 12281.    Follow the instructions for online submission. Please include a cover letter, resume, and the names, phone numbers, and addresses for three references.  Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.  Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience.  Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

 

Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer strongly committed to diversity.  We value qualified candidates who can bring to our community a variety of backgrounds and experiences.

------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

 

Below is a list of Fellowship opportunities in NYC, Philadelphia, and Boson. Please read on if you are interested.

 
 

FAO SCHWARZ FAMILY FOUNDATION TWO-YEAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

FOR RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES

 

Unique Opportunity to Provide both Direct Service to Children/Youth and Work on Special Projects:

The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellowship program is a two-year Fellowship program for recent college graduates designed to train future leaders in the education and youth development field and to strengthen high-quality youth-serving organizations.  The Fellows will work within established youth development and educational organizations providing both direct service to children/youth as well as initiating new projects, research, or programs that may involve public policy, organizational replication or sustainability efforts, or other new initiatives to strengthen the host organization.  At the same time, it is the Foundation’s hope that the Fellows receive experiences, training, and mentorship that launch them on successful careers as leaders in the youth development and educational field.

 

Characteristics of the Ideal FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow:

While each Fellowship position has been tailored to meet the specific needs of each host organization, we believe the ideal candidates for all positions will be:

  • Future leaders in the education and youth development field
  • Dynamic, driven, recent college graduates looking for a challenging, multi-faceted position at a leading non-profit organization in Boston, New York City or Philadelphia
  • Able to contribute to and benefit from ongoing training and leadership development opportunities facilitated by the Fellowship program
  • Interested in simultaneously balancing “on the ground” direct service work with “behind the scenes” capacity-building projects, both of which will have a profound impact on the host organization’s work

 

Training and Informal Mentorship Provided by FAO Schwarz Family Foundation:

The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows will benefit from having a mentor from the Foundation and from participating in two training and reflection retreats a year.  These training opportunities, which consist of three-day fall and spring sessions, will be a signature effort of the Fellowship and will be designed to ensure that FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows across several leading organizations can share their experiences and expertise and benefit from discussions with leading youth development professionals and experts in organizational development, policy, and education. The training sessions will rotate among the three cities in which the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows work: Boston, New York City, Philadelphia. 

 

Cohort of Ten FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows in Boston, NYC and Philadelphia:

The six 2010-12 FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows will be hired by the following host organizations: Breakthrough Philadelphia (Philadelphia), Food Project (Boston), Jumpstart (hiring two Fellows, one in New York City and one in Boston), Museum of the City of New York (New York City), Wheelock College (Boston). The 2010-2012 Fellows will join the current four 2009-2011 Fellows (from Groundwork in New York City; Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia and two Fellows at Year Up in New York City) to form a ten-person FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows cohort, which will participate in formal training retreats and informal communications throughout the year. 

 

Salary, Start Date, and How to Apply:

The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows will receive a salary and bonus of $56,000 over the two-year Fellowship plus full health benefits, consisting of the following: $27,000 salary for the first year; $28,000 salary for the second year and a $1,000 bonus at the end of the two-year Fellowship program. Interested graduating college seniors or recent college graduates should email a resume and cover note to the host organization(s), whose contact information is listed below. Candidates may apply directly to more than one host organization. While each host organization may have a different target start date, all FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellows are expected to begin their service on or before September 7, 2010.

 

Overview of FAO Schwarz Family Foundation: 

The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation is a modest-sized foundation funded through ongoing royalty payments from the current owners of the FAO Schwarz toy store to a foundation established by descendants of the store’s founders and former owners. 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF 2010-2012 HOST ORGANIZATIONS & FELLOWSHIP POSITIONS

IN BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY & PHILADELPHIA

 

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF  NEW YORK                                One Fellowship position in New York City

  • To apply, please send resume and cover note to:
    • Franny Kent

Director of the Frederick A.O. Schwarz Children’s Center

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue

New York , NY 10029

Email is preferred: [log in to unmask]

  • Organizational Overview ( www.mcny. org )
    • Founded in 1923, the Museum is the only institution dedicated to presenting and interpreting the past, present and future of New York City
    • The Museum’s Frederic A.O. Schwarz Children’s Center offers a variety of programs that help children learn about NYC’s history and their place in it.
  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow
    • Direct Service : As a museum educator, FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow will deliver School Programs lesson plans to visiting school groups; in addition, FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow will lead programs during after-school hours and the summer months.
    • Project Work  will consist of serving as the Program Development Coordinator. This is a new Museum initiative. The Fellow will research museum-based school programs and then create, implement and evaluate the new programs designed by the Fellow, under the direction of their supervisors. The Fellow will also create materials to go along with these programs, such as pre- and post-visit materials and self guided worksheets. The Fellow will have the opportunity to work with internal curator and exhibition development staff as well as historians throughout the city to perfect the content of these new programs.
 
 
 

BREAKTHROUGH of Greater PHILADELPHIA                                                           One Fellowship position in Philadelphia

o          Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia  is a six-year academic enrichment program that builds a path from middle school to college for low-income middle and high school students from the Philadelphia public schools. Breakthrough also inspires and trains talented college students to become educators and engaged citizens by giving them responsibility for teaching in its programs. Founded in 1995 as Summerbridge Germantown, Breakthrough is modeled on the highly successful San Francisco program, and is part of the national  Breakthrough Collaborative that includes 28 sites around the US and in Hong Kong.

o          Breakthrough serves more the 300 students annually with intensive summer and after-school academic enrichment programs, high school options counseling, tutoring and mentoring, and resources to keep students on track to go to college. Breakthrough’s teachers are talented high school and college students from around the US. They are supported and mentored by experienced teachers who serve as coaches.

  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow
    • Direct Service :  The Fellow will work with Breakthrough’s 8th-12th grade students, providing teaching, academic counseling, and mentoring in our summer programs; after-school tutoring; high school options counseling; course selection assistance; academic performance monitoring; and college counseling. The fellow will also help maintain contact and collaborative relationships with the students and their families.
    • Project Work :  The Fellow will assist Breakthrough with the development and implementation of several programs including:
      • Third Summer , a six-week summer program for rising ninth graders featuring academic enrichment, academic skill development, and leadership development
      • The High School Buddies  Program, which will match incoming 9th graders with 10th or 11th grade Breakthrough students who attend the same high school
      • The Breakthrough Student and Alumni Association , which will use social networking technology and other strategies and resources to create ongoing relationships, connections and support systems for our students through high school and beyond
      • Data collection and evaluation  to enable Breakthrough to track the short and long term academic outcomes  of our students
 

FOOD  PROJECT                                                                                                 One Fellowship position in Boston

  • Organizational Overview (www.thefoodproject.org):
    • The Food Project's mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Our community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.
    • The Food Project’s youth programs offer employment, education, and skill development opportunities to over 140 Greater Boston area youth annually. Young people grow fresh, healthy food on our farms in the city and the suburbs, providing access to fresh, local produce for thousands of area residents through farmers’ markets, community support agriculture programs, and donations to hunger relief organizations. These young people also work on our community programs, which aim to increase access to and production of fresh produce in underserved neighborhoods.
  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow
    • Direct Service : Beginning on 6/15/2010, the incoming FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow (“Fellow”) will enter into a series of supervisory roles of increasing responsibility within our Local Youth Programs. The Fellow will begin service as a Crew Leader in the summer of 2010, leading a crew of 10 teens in our Summer Youth Program, and will serve as a Site Supervisor providing broader program oversight in the summer of 2011. The Fellow will work as a program coordinator working with youth that continue beyond our summer program into our Academic Year and/or Internship Programs from the fall through the spring in 2010-2011 and again in 2011-2012.  These roles will include a blend of agricultural work, community-based food access projects, and youth development workshops and curriculum.
    • Project Work : Starting in the fall of 2010, the Fellow will take on a key role in the rollout and ongoing development of a new Internship Program curriculum designed to equip our most advanced youth participants in social change and food justice work and engage them in community-based food access initiatives. The fellow’s responsibilities would primarily include iterative evaluation design and implementation, assisting in curriculum revision, and program documentation .
 

JUMPSTART                                                                     Two Fellowship positions, one in Boston and one in New York City

  • To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter online at www.jstart.org/jobs
  • Organizational Overview ( www.jstart.org )
    • Jumpstart’s mission is to work toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed
    • Jumpstart partners 3,500 college student and community volunteers with preschool children in low-income communities for a full school year to help children develop the language and literacy skills they’ll need to thrive in school and in life. During the 2009-2010 school year, Jumpstart is serving nearly 13,000 children, in partnership with more than 250 early learning centers and 62 universities and colleges throughout the country.
  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow at Jumpstart in Boston
    • Direct Service:  The Fellow will serve as a Team Leader and manage two teams of 8-10 Community Corps Members to provide educational activities to young children and families. Team Leaders are basically classroom teachers for the Jumpstart session, facilitating completion of the curricular plan, modeling effective adult-child interactions for Corps Members and children, and working directly with all the children in the classroom.
    • Project Work:  As the Community Impact Associate, the Fellow will support efforts to saturate targeted communities within the Northeast region, allowing Jumpstart to enhance early childhood education for children by “connecting the dots” with other service providers through more impactful partnerships. Some activities will include developing systems to assess community impact and maintaining and creating partnerships with key community stakeholders to enable more comprehensive connections among families, agencies, and community institutions.
  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow at Jumpstart in New York City
    • Direct Service:  The Fellow will manage a team of volunteer readers to provide educational activities to young children and families. This role is similar to a classroom teacher for the volunteer sessions, facilitating completion of the curricular plan, modeling effective adult-child interactions for volunteer readers and children, and working directly with children in the classroom.
    • Project Work:  As the Readers Program Associate, the Fellow will support efforts designed to ensure the successful launch of the Readers Program within New York City and surrounding boroughs. The Readers Program follows Jumpstart’s results-based curriculum, but it offers flexibility and shorter time commitments for community members and working professionals who have a desire to volunteer but lack the time to do so.  The Fellow will be instrumental in establishing new preschool and corporate partnerships within Manhattan, with a target goal of recruiting 300 Readers program volunteers to position this program for future success and scaling.

 

WHEELOCK  COLLEGE                                                           One Fellowship position in Boston

  • To apply  please see  www.wheelock.edu/faofellowship ; Please contact  [log in to unmask]  if you have questions about the application process
  • Organizational Overview ( www.wheelock.edu )
    • Since 1888 Wheelock College has been a private college with a public mission:  Improving the lives of children and families.
    • The FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow will be located in the Juvenile Justice and Youth Advocacy Program  (JJYA) in the School of Education, Social Work, Child Life and Family Studies. JJYA is a unique undergraduate program focused on developing and professionalizing a youth serving workforce that is grounded in the practice of positive youth development. Our Ubuntu Arts projects apply a positive youth development approach to working with youth and college students in collaboration with youth serving organizations.  We implement and exhibit youth art-making projects that reflect themes related to Ubuntu and the transformation of violence.
    • The Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs (PCCA) develops and implements innovative pipeline projects connecting K-12 schools, higher education, and community organizations, businesses, and agencies.  PCCA is the organizational home of SPARK the Truth.  SPARK is a youth-led social action initiative that supports full youth participation in planning and implementing positive change through youth-led activities, projects, and events.
    • Ubuntu  in the Works (see  www.wheelock.edu/ubuntu ) is a dynamic collection of youth-oriented projects and initiatives that are created and managed by a partnership between JJYA and PCCA.  SPARK the Truth and Ubuntu Arts are initiatives of Ubuntu in the Works.           
  • Workplan for FAO Schwarz Family Foundation Fellow
    • Direct Service:      Working with youth in two related and interconnected projects:  SPARK the Truth and Ubuntu Arts.  Fellow will work directly with youth and college students to engage in outreach, relationship building, leadership, mentorship, and side-by-side planning and facilitation of activities, projects, and events. Fellow will support and develop SPARK chapters at local high schools and colleges. Roles may include: Facilitating regular group meetings, serving as liaison between SPARK organization and chapters, supporting and guiding youth social action and art projects, building relationships with youth and staff, planning and implementing events, co-curating exhibits, and assistant teaching.
    • Project Work:  Strategic planning and development for Ubuntu in the Works initiatives, SPARK the Truth and Ubuntu Arts. Fellow will collaborate with faculty, staff, and youth to develop and refine a strategic plan, explore and conduct documentation and program evaluation, explore and implement innovative practices, and develop funding opportunities to build and sustain the initiatives.  Fellow will develop knowledge and expertise in strategic leadership and youth program development and will be provided with opportunities to take advantage of workshops, trainings and educational experiences to develop knowledge and skills (e.g., facilitation, intergroup dialogue, program evaluation).  Fellows will receive a voucher for one free graduate course per year.
 

========================================================= Important Subscriber Information:

The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes).

If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).