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Subject: Position announcement - Lead Cataloger
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:43:33 -0500
From: "Tysdal, Wynne" <Tysdalw@NDU.EDU>

> The National Defense University Library is searching for a Lead Cataloger
> and team leader to be part of a "state of the art" information service
> providing access to resources in all formats.  This position is a
> challenging one of integrating websites, online documents, audio-visual
> materials, electronic journals, books, rare books and  personal
> collections, and realia into a database providing coherent access to
> materials supporting the mission of the University.
> Located in George C. Marshall Hall on Ft McNair in Washington DC between
> the Anacostia River and the Washington Channel, the NDU Library's location
> is ideal.  From Technical Services' windows, one can look to the
> Washington Monument, the US Capitol and the Library of Congress for
> inspiration
> The library's collections consist of  more than 500,000 bound volumes,
> periodicals, A-V materials, microforms, government documents, and
> classified documents.  The library is a readily available source of
> information on the theory and conduct of national security affairs,
> international relations, management, and mobilization of resources.
>
> The book collection emphasizes history and the social sciences,
> management, and military art and science.  The Library's Special
> Collections, Archives, and History Branch is the repository for personal
> papers, rare books, academic history materials, student papers, historical
> photographs, maps, prints, and artifacts.  The manuscript collection
> contains the personal papers of twentieth-century military leaders, with
> emphasis on those of former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. -
> Powell, Shalikashvili, Shelton, Taylor and other military luminaries  The
> Library has ambitiously undertaken a digitization project sparked by the
> library's role as a repository for the personal paper collections.  The
> digitizing of resources in Special Collections and the application of
> metadata to the database provides a challenging opportunity for
> catalogers.
>
> The NDU Library is the developer of MERLN (Military Education Research
> Library Network) <http://www.merln.ndu.edu>.  The NDU Library recognized
> an opportunity to develop library service in the arena of international
> military education and reached out to through MERLN.  MERLN links military
> library catalogs; serves as a portal to full-text military journals,
> bibliographies and unique digitized collections.  It provides access to
> ejournals through password authentication of alums.  It has served as a
> unifying force through library cooperation to countries throughout the
> world.
>
> The collection of 1,400 current periodicals is complemented by access to
> over 4,000 electronic journals  Multidisciplinary online search services
> are available to students locally as well as distance learners and alums.
>
> The Library is organized into Automation & Technical Services; Research
> and Information Services; and Special Collections, Archives and History;
> all work under the guidance of the Library Director.
>
> Technical Services is responsible for the value-added function of
> descriptive cataloging which assures accessibility of the library's
> collections.  Responsibilities:  Leads the Technical Services team in
> providing superior service for the acquisition of, access to and control
> of resources using a variety of methods.  Provides goal and
> priority-setting, policy and procedure formulation; monitoring and
> revision of work flows; planning and monitoring production and use of
> resources.  Shares in all aspects of management and planning within the
> department.  Assists in in-house training activities, in the development
> of staff work plans, and in the annual performance appraisal process for
> support staff positions.
> National Defense University educates military and civilian leaders through
> teaching, research, and outreach in national security strategy, national
> military strategy, and national resource strategy; joint and multinational
> operations; information strategies, operations, and resource management;
> acquisition; and regional defense studies. (http://www.ndu.edu/)
> This position is open to all applicants with or without Civil Service
> status.
> Full text of the announcement and application procedures can be found at:
> <http://www.cpol.army.mil/va/scripts/get_va.cgi?Announce_No=RI-DEU-02-894>
>