Catalog Maintenance Assistant

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform bibliographic searching and edit bibliographic and physical inventory records to ensure absolute data integrity.
• Work primarily within Alma, our integrated library management system, alongside Google applications such as Sheets, Google Meet, and Gmail.
• Maintain the daily review of exceptions arising from the consolidation project, routing them to the responsible departments.
• Perform routine corrections to catalog data for selected collections spanning both the James Branch Cabell and Health Sciences Libraries.
• Monitor the routing of catalog exceptions to ensure their timely return to the active project workflows.
• Resolve catalog reviews of physical inventory.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.
• Familiarity with library collections demonstrated by the ability to identify bibliographic information from handling physical materials.
• Aptitude for accuracy, manipulating detailed data, data fields, and multistep workflows.
• Ability to follow detailed procedures, working both independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrated experience in recognizing and communicating problems and seeking input from stakeholders and supervisor for process improvement.
• Demonstrated excellence in time management, including prioritizing and continuously monitoring tasks to resolution.

Benefits

• All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s robust benefits package that includes comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave, generous tuition benefits, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.

Payscale

$18.00 hourly

Schedule

This is a 100% onsite position, hence reliable transportation is required.

Position Type

Restricted Position: No
Flexible Work Arrangement: Fully Onsite