This position is located in the Latin American, Caribbean & European Division, General & International Collections Directorate, Researcher And Collections Services. The position description number for this position is 012187. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.
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 work with library materials and information in at least one Slavic language.** Ability to maintain materials in a library or archival collection.** Ability to use computerized search tools, databases, and other computer applications. Ability to process library materials. Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Receives/accessions, sorts and arranges a variety of more complex material, following established procedures, guidelines, and standards of the division and utilizing knowledge of the division's collections, subject and/or language areas. Determines the status of material received in the division in relation to the division's other collections by examining them (a) for acceptability with respect to physical condition, completeness and conformity with Library policies, (b) to determine proper custody, referring them to other division of the Library when appropriate, and (c) to identify rare items, items requiring special attention, and items of possible value as reference or processing aids. Participates in preparing collection proposals, establishing priorities, and writing work/processing plans which includes surveying a collection, determining its informational content, formats, physical condition, and organization. Prepares material for use/storage. Such preparation includes, but is not limited to, recommending appropriate measures, performing specialized preservation and phased conservation tasks, filing, housing, labeling, and shelving the material. Maintains records and writes reports on processing activities. Undertakes special projects, surveys, or studies to identify and resolve problems relating to the collections or processing activities. Maintains records and writes reports on special project activities. Identifies, removes, de-accessions and assembles duplicate and extraneous material for disposition or transfer to the appropriate Library division or external repository, as necessary. Performs more complex collections maintenance activities on a variety of material in various stages of preservation, including, but not limited to, transferring material from off-site storage, replacing worn housing and containing, reboxing, relabeling, marking for identification and security, shelving, shelf reading, and collection shifting. Organizes and prepares more complex material for reformatting (e.g., microfilming or digital scanning). Such preparation includes, but is not limited to, counting and marking pages and items, noting missing material, preparing targets, headers, and finding aids, recording and preparing material for transfer to the appropriate duplication service, and comparing completed copies against original material. Performs more complex manual and automated searches in multiple systems. A routine validated pre-placement physical examination performed by the Library's Health Services Division is required as a condition of assignment to this position.