Library Services Technician

The Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery promotes intellectual growth and creativity by developing high quality collections, facilitating access to information resources, and furthering innovative teaching and learning. In support of the University's mission, our Library is dedicated to diversity, social responsibility, and lifelong learning.

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Within the Digital Scholarship Services Unit, the Library Services Technician supports the ongoing work to correct UMBC author affiliations in publishers’ metadata, and bibliographic and citation databases. The Library Services Technician assists with the daily functions of the UMBC digital repository, ScholarWorks@UMBC. This position is responsible for training and checking the work of student assistants working on affiliation corrections and the digital repository.

UMBC offers competitive compensation. This role starts at $24.82 per hour and has 14 days of vacation as well as winter break, spring break, and personal days for regular full time roles. Tuition remission is also available. 

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A hybrid telework schedule may be available.

• Identifies erroneous UMBC author affiliations in publisher metadata and bibliographic and citation databases (ex. Scopus and Web of Science); contacts publishers and works with them to make corrections; works with UMBC departments and/or reporting agencies to correct institutional name variants (ex. UMB vs UMBC); supports outreach to educate faculty about correcting their affiliation in published research; collects data related to corrections and rankings.

• Trains student assistants and checks their processing, metadata, and affiliation correction work for accuracy.

• Processes potential submissions to ScholarWorks@UMBC and updates and corrects records in the database.

• Completes descriptive metadata describing works and their authors.

• Follows established procedures to manipulate data sets to transform them for loading into ScholarWorks@UMBC.

• Communicates with faculty about potential and completed submissions to ScholarWorks@UMBC.

• High School Diploma or GED

• Two years of experience directly related to the primary duties of the position.