Head of Music and Media Metadata Librarian

The University of California, San Diego Library seeks motivated, creative and collaborative applicants to join the Library as Head of the Music & Media Metadata Unit in the Metadata Services Program. This position will provide metadata expertise and oversight for musical scores, audio, and visual materials from a wide variety of disciplines.

Responsibilities of the Position

Reporting to the Program Director for Metadata Services (MS), the Head of Music & Media Metadata Librarian (M3) plays an important role in providing access and facilitating discovery to the Library’s music and media print, electronic and digital collections. The Head of M3 will directly supervise one Metadata Specialist with the potential to fill further vacancies in the unit. The Head of M3 will oversee, create and manipulate bibliographic and authority metadata through original, complex copy and batch cataloging for musical scores and media. This position will actively participate in digital projects through the creation and manipulation of music and media specific metadata and serve as a metadata consultant for data providers (e.g. The Dept. of Music).

The Head of M3 will actively collaborate with data providers for digital projects and work closely with the Music and Media Librarian responsible for collection development to accomplish shared strategic collection and access goals. The Head of M3 will possess and continue to develop expertise in metadata best practices, emerging trends, technologies and tools and recommend their adoption if they further Library, M3 and MS goals. As part of the MS Unit Heads Group, this position shares management responsibility for the Metadata Services Program. As a librarian, this position would be expected to be professionally active to further the profession, and contribute to the progression of the Metadata Services Program.

• Catalogs and has primary responsibility for coordinating and supervising Music and Media cataloging (original, copy, and batch processing of physical and electronic audio, moving image and notated music).
• Contributes authority records to NACO and creates bibliographic records for BIBCO.
• Coordinates and manages the development and implementation of metadata strategies that support the discovery of the Library’s music and media collections.
• Supervises, trains, and sets direction for Music & Media Unit metadata staff and students.
• Leads the unit to investigate, experiment with, and implement new approaches and/or batch processes for creating and manipulating bibliographic and authority data, including extended and creative uses of metadata.
• Shares leadership, strategic direction and management responsibility for the Metadata Services Program (MS) as part of the MS Unit Heads Group.
• Integrates and coordinates descriptive metadata practices across databases of record and information systems.
• Provides intellectual leadership and contributes nationally to the development of emerging cataloging standards and maintains currency with issues in bibliographic and authority control, information organization, and metadata encoding standards.
• Participates in the creation and development of Metadata Services Program priorities, policies, procedures, and goals.
• Works collaboratively with public services and collections staff to prioritize and create appropriate access to library materials.
• Serves on Library-wide, Campus-wide, and/or UC System-wide committees.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

• MLS/MLIS or equivalent advanced degree. Other appropriate degree and equivalent experience in one or more fields related to library services may be substituted.
• Demonstrated strong experience cataloging original, copy, and batch processing of physical and electronic audio, moving image and notated music using Resource Description & Access (RDA), Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), LC Classification, and MARC-21 format and familiarity working with non-MARC metadata formats.
• Ability to read notated music and knowledge of the special features of notated music, media, and electronic resources.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing staff and providing collaborative or inclusive leadership with peers and direct reports.
• Demonstrated strong intercultural competency and overall ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders both online and in-person, in one-on-one, small group, and large group settings.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in synthesizing a variety of perspectives in order to identify viable approaches and build consensus among stakeholders.
• Demonstrated awareness of national and international trends in bibliographic and authority control.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in prioritizing multiple concurrent projects in order to meet deadlines in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current metadata standards, trends and issues in academic libraries.
• Demonstrated experience advocating for the diverse metadata needs of stakeholders and long term strategic goals.
• Evidence of contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education and libraries and thrives in a collaborative, dynamic and culturally diverse environment.
• Demonstrated commitment and enthusiasm for learning new skills in support of program and library goals.

Preferred qualifications

• Undergraduate or advanced degree in music.
• Demonstrated experience cataloging/creating metadata for digital collection repositories.
• Demonstrated experience working in an academic research library.
• Demonstrated experience with (meta)data wrangling using scripting languages and/or tools such as OpenRefine, MarcEdit, spreadsheets, etc.

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