Job opening: Librarian (Reference)
Salary: $64 957 - 84 441 per year
Published at: Nov 14 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the American Folklife Center, Special Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collections Services.
The position description number for this position is 446149.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flexitime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position.
Duties
The Reference Librarian is responsible for providing reference, research, consultation, and liaison services; instructions and training; and security for AFC collections. AFC holds nearly 6 million items in a variety of formats in thousands of individual collections stored in local and remote sites. The collections are among the Library's most varied in medium, format, physical condition, and intellectual property rights requirements, with attendant concerns for security, preservation, and safe handling.
Qualifications
Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
Ability to provide reference and research services.**
Ability to develop and manage research collections.**
Knowledge of folklife, ethnomusicology, and/or related fields.**
Ability to provide consultation, outreach, and liaison services.**
Ability to utilize information technology to perform library services.
Ability to communicate in writing.
Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Contacts
- Address LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
101 Independence Avenue S.E.
Washington, District of Columbia 20540
United States
- Name: Job Help Desk
- Phone: 202-707-5620
- Email: [email protected]
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