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Specialist III - Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center

The New York Public Library · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
On-siteArt & Creative$80k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 for headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use ul/li for lists, p for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Include only sections with real specific content. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - Overview: description about NYPL, Schomburg Center, Photographs and Prints Division, role description. Could be "About the role" or "Overview". Use h3 for section headings. Probably "About the role" is appropriate. - Responsibilities: list of bullet points. - Required Education, Experience & Skills: includes subparts: Required Education & Certifications, Required Experience, Required Skills, Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities. Could combine into sections: Requirements (education & experience) and Skills. Or separate Qualifications and Skills. The instruction: use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have Requirements (education & experience) and Skills separate. - Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities: could be part of Requirements or Skills? It's supervisory responsibilities; maybe include under Requirements or Skills. Probably under Requirements as it's about experience. - Core Values: maybe not needed as heading; could be omitted if not specific? It's generic core values; but it's substantive. Could be placed under About the role? Might be better to include as a separate section? Not in list of allowed headings; but we could omit if not needed. The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. Core Values is generic but still content. However headings list does not include Core Values; we could incorporate into About the role as prose. - Work Environment: includes Physical Duties, etc. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "Work Environment". Not in allowed headings list; but we could incorporate into About the role. - Schedule: explicit schedule details: 35 hours per week onsite, Monday - Saturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pm, evenings and alternating Saturdays required. So we need a Schedule section. - Pay: compensation: $80,145 / year. So Pay section. - Benefits: not mentioned explicitly. No benefits details. So we should NOT create Benefits section. - Qualifications: maybe combine education & experience? Could use Requirements for education & experience, Qualifications for certifications? But we have Required Education & Certifications. Could treat as Qualifications. Let's decide: Use Requirements for education & experience, Skills for skills, and maybe Qualifications for certifications? However we have both education and certifications. The heading list includes Qualifications. We could put education & certifications under Qualifications, and experience under Requirements. Or combine. Better: Use Requirements for education & experience (including certifications). Use Skills for skills. Use Qualifications maybe not needed. But we need to follow instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay, Schedule. That's six sections. We must not include Benefits if not present. Now extract content. About the role: Should include overview of NYPL, Schomburg Center, Photographs and Prints Division, role purpose: Specialist III will support welcoming researcher experience, collaborate on cataloging and archival processing, hire/train/manage pages and interns. Also mention mission etc. Keep all substantive info. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like: founded 1925, National Historic Landmark 2017, collection over 11 million items, Photographs and Prints Division collects unique rare visual source materials, etc. Also mention that the Specialist III will support welcoming researcher experience, collaborate on cataloging and archival processing, hire/train/manage pages and interns in consultation with associate curator. Also mention that they will collaborate on policies and decisions for cataloging and processing, etc. That's actually responsibilities. So About the role should be overview, not responsibilities. Thus About the role paragraph: combine the overview paragraphs before Responsibilities. Let's extract overview text: "Department: Research LibrariesLocation: Schomburg CenterCompensation: $80,145 / year Description Overview For more than 125 years, The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been an essential provider of books, information, ideas, and education. With collections numbering more than 56 million items and serving more than 16 million patrons in person each year and millions more online, NYPL’s reach is both local and global. Our mission is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities. At our world-class research centers–including the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Library at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Library for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture–expert staff facilitate the work of our diverse communities, offering inspiring reading rooms, exhibitions, fellowships, and a dynamic range of research services. Their work is supported by dedicated staff on the Collections and Research Services teams. We are proud to be the most public and widely used research library in the world. Founded in 1925 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2017, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of materials focused on African American, African, and African Diaspora experiences. The collection holds over 11 million items that illuminate the richness of global Black history and culture. The Photographs and Prints Division collects, stewards, and provides access to unique, rare, and original visual source materials that document the history and culture of people of African descent globally. The Specialist III will support a welcoming researcher experience in the Photographs and Prints Division. They will also collaborate on cataloging and archival processing of P& P collections. Additionally, this Specialist III will hire, train, and manage pages and interns in consultation with the division’s associate curator." We need to preserve all that. Remove department line? It's metadata; we could include in a short p maybe. But instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. Department and Location and Compensation are metadata; we could include them in a short p at top? But we have separate Pay section for compensation. Department and Location could be included in About the role as a short p. However we should not repeat job title. We can include a p: "Department: Research Libraries. Location: Schomburg Center." But maybe better to drop them as minor metadata? The instruction says fold minor metadata into a short p or drop it. We could include a short p with Department and Location. But we also have Pay section for compensation. So we can include a p: "Department: Research Libraries. Location: Schomburg Center." That seems fine. Now Responsibilities: list bullet points from "Responsibilities" section. Let's extract each bullet: - Collaborates on policies and decisions for cataloging and processing, including specification of technical language, templates, and workflows - Aids cataloging and processing of photography collections, creating finding aids and other organizational, access and public service related activities - Aids photography collection management from accession and preservation to digitization, including housing, location and organization - Assists in processing loan paperwork and digitization requests, including doing valuation research and collaborating with the NYPL’s Collection Management team - Participates in committees that are related to professional responsibilities and serves as a liaison between the Schomburg Center and other NYPL units, including but not limited to Collection Management, Special Collections Processing and the Digital Imaging Unit - Assists in responding to reference service inquiries related to photographs and prints collections - Performs related duties as required We need to preserve all. Now Requirements: includes Required Education & Certifications, Required Experience, Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities? Actually Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities is separate bullet under Required Education, Experience & Skills? It appears after Required Skills? Let's see: after Required Skills there is "Managerial/Supervisory ResponsibilitiesMay supervise 2 temporary Specialists, 1 Library Technical Assistant, 2 Pages/interns". That seems like a separate bullet under the same heading? It's under "Required Education, Experience & Skills" but after Skills. We'll treat as part of Requirements (experience). So Requirements will include: - Required Education & Certifications: ALA accredited Master’s degree (MLS, MLIS, MA) in Library and Information Studies, Archives, history, or related fields in the humanities - Required Experience: - Professional experience in a research setting, such as a library or university, or a large photography archive - Experience in a photography archive or manuscripts repository processing collections and writing finding aids or demonstrated cataloging experience - Experience using archives management tools, such as ArchivesSpace, integrated library systems, such as Sierra, and bibliographic utilities like OCLC Connexion and standard ILS systems - Some supervisory experience - Managerial/Supervisory Responsibilities: May supervise 2 temporary Specialists, 1 Library Technical Assistant, 2 Pages/interns We could combine supervisory experience and supervisory responsibilities. Now Skills: list from Required Skills: - Demonstrated knowledge of current standards for archival description and special collections cataloging (e.g. DACS, DCRM, RDA, MARC21, authority control) and controlled vocabularies (e.g. LCSH, LC/NAF, LCGFT, AAT, RBMS) - Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment to meet planned goals - Excellent analytical and problem solving skills - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail - Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills - Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment (somewhat redundant with earlier) - Subject area expertise or educational background in any of the following: African American History/Studies/Literature, Africana Studies Note: "Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment" duplicates earlier "Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment". We'll keep both as separate bullet points? Might be redundant but we must preserve all substantive info; we can keep both. Now Pay: compensation: $80,145 / year. Schedule: details: "35 hours per week onsite to be scheduled during regular building hours, Monday - Saturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pmEvenings and alternating Saturdays are requiredSchedule subject to change". Also earlier: "Schedule35 hours per week onsite to be scheduled during regular building hours, Monday - Saturday 9:30 am - 6:00 pmEvenings and alternating Saturdays are requiredSchedule subject to change". We'll format as a p. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown. We'll structure:

Department: Research Libraries. Location: Schomburg Center.

About the role

[overview text]

Responsibilities

  • ...
  • ...

Requirements

  • ... education...
  • ... experience...
  • ...
But we have multiple sub-items; we could nest lists? Simpler: each bullet as li. We need to include education, experience, supervisory responsibilities as separate li. Now Skills:

Skills

  • ...
  • ...

Pay

$80,145 per year

Schedule

35 hours per week onsite, scheduled during regular building hours Monday–Saturday 9:30 am–6:00 pm; evenings and alternating Saturdays required. Schedule subject to change.

Make sure to preserve original wording exactly? We should preserve

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