Job Posting: Weekend/Evening Librarian at School of Visual Arts
Posted: July 6, 2011 Filed under: Art Librarianship, Cataloging, Catalogs/OPACs, Libraries: Art & Design Schools, Opportunities: Job Postings, Technical Services, Visual Resources | Tags: Cataloging, new york city, reference, school of visual arts, SVA, technical services, visual arts library Leave a comment »
DATE AVAILABLE: September 2011
JOB TITLE: Weekend/Evening Librarian (part-time)
DEPARTMENT: Visual Arts Library, School of Visual Arts
REPORTS TO: Head of Reference Services
SCHEDULE: Fall and Spring semesters only (September to May, no summers)
Hours: Saturday afternoons (2pm to 5pm) and Sunday afternoons (2pm to 6pm); plus one weekday evening 6pm to 9pm (specific weekday may vary semester to semester)
SALARY: $ 26.00 per hour
POSITION OVERVIEW: Provides reference service in the Visual Arts Library on weekends and one weekday evening. Participates in specialized cataloging projects. Provides support to circulation supervisors as needed.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Has primary responsibility during weekends and one weekday evening for assisting undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members with library navigation and use of online catalog and electronic resources.
· Works on special cataloging projects under the supervision of the technical services/systems librarian.
· Performs administrative-related tasks in reference services as required.
· Provides support to weekend and evening managers with student supervision, resolution of patron issues, facilities problems, etc.
· Reports any patron or staff problems/issues to supervisor. Recommends weekend and evening service improvements.
QUALIFICATIONS:
· MLS degree and graduate-level Art History degree, or strong background in art & design history
· Ability to work 10 hours per week, including weekends and one weekday evening
· Experience using online art and design databases
· Excellent customer services skills
· Cataloging experience, preferably with a variety of formats, in an academic environment
· In-depth knowledge of AACR2, LCRI, LCC, LCSH and MARC
· Experience with OCLC Connection and ExLibris Voyager preferred
· Ability to work independently
· Detail oriented, with ability to maintain focus on long-term projects.
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the College has instituted numerous educational innovations, including the selection of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields as instructors. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
Find out what it’s like to work at SVA. Visit http://www.sva.edu/workingatsva
To apply for this position, please send a cover letter and resume to working@sva.edu. No walk-ins please.
The School of Visual Arts is an equal opportunity employer.
Pushing Current Awareness
Posted: February 23, 2011 Filed under: Catalogs/OPACs, RSS Leave a comment »Video: librarylackey’s March [2009] New Books in the Charles Voorhies Fine Art Library at Pacific Northwest College of Art
How do you/would you push new content to your constituents. Is it dynamic? Can it be easily shared? Is it fully or partially automated?
NYARC’s Arcade Featured in NYT
Posted: April 15, 2010 Filed under: Catalogs/OPACs, News Comments OffNice write up including ARLIS/NA folks
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection — have combined forces to share resources, save money and make their holdings more accessible to the public.
The database, at arcade.nyarc.org, is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ancient Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18LIBRARY.html
University of Iowa Libraries’ cARTalog
Posted: February 4, 2008 Filed under: Catalogs/OPACs, Fun 1 Comment »Feeling nostalgic? Check out cARTalog!
The cARTalog grows from the empty drawers of the University of Iowa Libraries’ main card catalog, which was retired in 2004. A small community of library staff—motivated by both nostalgia and library subculture– has come together to give the card catalog cards themselves a rebirth, in order to celebrate the role of this honorific icon within the world of libraries as well as the UI Libraries’ sesquicentennial. Project organizers were able to salvage approximately only one quarter of the UI’s card catalog for the cARTalog project; the remaining cards were hauled away to recycling. The UI Libraries is only one of several libraries that have sought to honor the waning card catalog with a lasting monument or ceremony.
Be sure to check out the gallery as well. Please post below if you know of any other artistic adaptations of library materials!
ALA Midwinter: Ideas For Making Your Catalog The Best It Can Be
Posted: December 7, 2007 Filed under: ALA, Catalogs/OPACs 1 Comment »- Confused (and/or excited) by all the talk of the “next-generation” library catalog?
- Wonder how it can make a difference to YOUR users?
- Crave some communication with other library professionals about these topics?
If so, you should plan to attend the ALA Midwinter discussion session – “Ideas For Making Your Catalog The Best It Can Be.” The Catalog Use Committee (RUSA/RSS) will hold this discussion on Sunday, January 13th from 10:30-noon in Crowne Plaza, Liberty C.
Topics will include:
- Pushing the catalog out to users (things like RSS feeds, Firefox extensions, Facebook apps, etc.)
- Alternate discovery tools (when it’s NOT your catalog – Amazon, LibraryThing, WorldCat)
- Assessment and usability for information seeking behaviors (different age groups and the same catalog!)
If you would like to attend and are on Facebook, please add our event and invite others: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19601121312
Best, Tiffany
From Tiffany A. Hebb at DePauw, via NGC4LIB
Next-Gen OPACs Program @ UMass
Posted: October 4, 2007 Filed under: Catalogs/OPACs, Opportunities: Meetings Comments Off***Next Generation Library Catalogs***
A free program sponsored by the Five College Library Directors
(with support from Simmons College G.S.L.I.S. West)
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
1:00 – 4:00pm
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Campus Center Auditorium
Registration required: http://snipurl.com/nextgen
As a library’s key database and the one system with which most users
interact, the online library catalog has been evolving for over 30
years. Software upgrades, enhanced functions and performance
improvements have brought us a long way. In the past two years,
however, catalogs have begun to undergo a change that is more
dramatic. Driven by evolving user expectations and the explosion of
web 2.0 technologies, library databases are on the verge of a paradigm
shift that warrants consideration as a whole new generation of discovery
and delivery tool.
Come and hear more about this “next generation” of library catalogs from
some folks on the front lines:
/*David Lindahl*/ is Director of Digital Library Initiatives for the
River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester. He has extensive
experience in library-related digital research and design projects and
is currently co-principal investigator for the eXtensible Catalog Project.
/*Jennifer Ward*/ is the Head of Web Services for the University of
Washington Libraries and manages the Libraries’ usability program. She
is part of the University’s WorldCat Local implementation team.
/*Anne M. Prestamo*/ is Associate Dean for Collection & Technology
Services at Oklahoma State University Library. Dr. Prestamo’s main area
of interest is with technology for the delivery of library resources and
she has been involved with Oklahoma State’s implementation of AquaBrowser.
*Further program information and some interesting reading available at:
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm*
Book Shelf View: Possibilities for Virtual Stacks Browsing
Posted: September 14, 2007 Filed under: Archival Management, Catalogs/OPACs, Visual Resources, Web 2.0 1 Comment »Imagine keyword searching through a book database, only the results come back as a picture of library stacks where the book is highlighted in context, where serendipity and browsing could happen. Read more…
Above is a quote from an O’Reilly Radar Blog post. Maybe someday image librarians will manage digital images of the stacks too. One potential problem with this idea — when would all the books be on the shelves so that you could take a complete picture of your library’s holdings? Have any of you ever tried Delicious Library (mentioned in a comment at the bottom of Book Shelf View post)?
VuFind: NextGen, Web 2.0 Library Catalog
Posted: July 19, 2007 Filed under: 2008 ARLIS/NA Conference Denver, Archival Management, Catalogs/OPACs, Web 2.0 1 Comment »
VuFind is pretty exciting–one of the more interesting nextgen opacs I’ve seen. Digital images would look great in the catalog (although how they would be incorporated is another question.) Then users could tag them easily and send a response if the image or metadata needs to be edited. Right now, the similar items column on the right doesn’t seem to be functioning correctly, but the possibilities…! I don’t know how the technical end of catalog works, but if you find out, please share.
Denver ’08 Proposal: Next Gen OPACs
Posted: May 3, 2007 Filed under: 2008 ARLIS/NA Conference Denver, Catalogs/OPACs 22 Comments »Do others think that next-gen OPACs are interesting enough to merit their own session? Should it be incorporated into the Round Robin format, or should we propose a seperate session?
We could focus on reviews of projects which incorporate Web2.0 technologies and mashups into the OPAC environment, with a specific focus on art information and visual resources. I think that this would be of particular interest to our profession after some spectacular presentations at the New Voices panel.
Please comment on this idea, as well as what format would be most conducive.
