Job Opportunity: Cataloging and Metadata Librarian.

Full description and application site: http://jobs.nku.edu/postings/9152

The W. Frank Steely Library at Northern Kentucky University seeks a collaborative, visionary, and service-oriented individual to lead the library’s cataloging and metadata. This full-time faculty position will be responsible for the vision and strategic direction and will provide leadership in metadata creation, organization, application, and management of current and emerging metadata schemas and techniques, such as linked data that supports research assistance and instruction leading to student success. The Cataloging and Metadata Librarian will play an active role in cultivating an environment of diversity and inclusion, especially to first-generation, marginalized and underrepresented students.

The W. Frank Steely Library provides a wide range of library services to support the University’s commitment to its Success by Design strategic framework which promotes student success by embracing inclusiveness, equity, global awareness, and academic needs of students and faculty in each academic college. Library faculty and staff have enhanced traditional services to better address 21st century information needs and are collaborative partners across campus. The library’s twenty faculty members and fifteen staff members are leading the implementation of NKU’s campus-wide Quality Enhancement Plan on Information Literacy and newly created digital repository, and offering an online Bachelor’s degree in library informatics.

NKU is a public comprehensive university located in the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area. The university delivers innovative, learner-centered education and engages in impactful scholarly and creative activities, all of which empower students for fulfilling careers and meaningful lives while contributing to the social and economic vitality of the region. NKU has almost 14,000 students, over 2,000 faculty and staff. It offers 79 undergraduate degree programs, master’s degrees in 21 disciplines, graduate certificates in 15 areas, two doctoral programs, a law degree, and in a partnership with the University of Kentucky and St Elizabeth Hospital opened a medical school in the fall of 2019.

Donna Smith

Professor of Library Services

Digital Resources and Access Services

259 Steely Library

Northern Kentucky University

Highland Heights, KY  41099

smithd@nku.edu