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Serials Specialist and Lead Metadata Analyst Center for Research Libraries Chicago A recently awarded grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to continue to expand its analysis and planning to shape a data-centered international strategy for archiving and digitizing historical journals and newspapers. We are seeking a creative, self directed professional with project management & team-lead capabilities focused on achieving top-notch results and meeting production objectives. Position involves collaborating closely with internal database teams as well as outside partners & publishers to develop standards of metadata capture, creation and normalization of bibliographic and holdings data for serials and newspapers. Duties and Responsibilities: * Developing & monitoring processes for ensuring existing metadata is accurate and complete and coordinating the augmentation of existing data as necessary * Develop and implement a system to verify accuracy of all required data fields in incoming records. * Working with data sources to improve the quality of data as needed. * Investigate opportunities to expand capability of existing databases and opportunities in linked data environment * Provide guidance to a team of metadata specialists and data entry personnel. * Monitoring production to ensure project goals are met. * Ensuring data analysis team's goals and tasks are recorded in project management software and that team members use software to log progress or record notes. * Creating regular written project reports. Requirements: * Strong analytical skills, with experience analyzing dataflow, data patterns and work flow. * Prior project management and team lead experience. * MLS or MLIS required * A minimum of 3 years serials cataloging experience, CONSER level preferred * Expertise developing and maintaining databases * Experience using PERL, JAVA or other programming languages to normalize text and applying API's to harvest or capture data. * Ability to document and explain standards Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/12587/