Are you inspired by the opportunity to work with materials that will become part of Queensland's heritage?

As part of our Metadata team, you'll work on State Library's collections, obtained through acquisition, donations or via legal deposit to make them discoverable and accessible for our clients.

We're seeking a motivated and flexible Library Technician who can prioritise tasks whilst maintaining accuracy when dealing with collections.

Job details

About you
As a member of the Metadata team, you will work in a client-focused environment, contributing to the acquisition, description, and access of State Library's physical, digital, and electronic collections to ensure they are discoverable, accessible, usable, and preserved - now and into the future.

Depending on your assigned unit, your key focus may include:  Acquisitions and technical support, eresource management, or descriptive metadata creation.

What you will do

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Creating informative and connected descriptive records for State Library's physical, digital, and electronic materials, in accordance with local, national, and international standards, to ensure collections are discoverable and accessible through library catalogues
• Creating and maintaining acquisition records for all materials and collections, including electronic subscriptions - this involves processing invoices, actioning renewals, setting up access to electronic materials, claiming serials, and maintaining vendor and licence records
• Ensuring the acquisition of physical and electronic legal deposit works, including liaising with publishers, undertaking holdings analysis, and managing ingests from the National edeposit (NED) system
• Importing, enhancing, and maintaining all records for Public Library Collections to ensure users across Queensland can discover and access a high-quality range of resources through Rural Libraries Queensland and Indigenous Knowledge Centres
• Contributing to a positive and safe work environment by demonstrating conduct that is culturally capable, inclusive, respectful, and ethical.

To be considered for this role, you are required to hold a relevant or related qualification and be eligible for technical membership of the Australian Library and information Association (ALIA).

The role description will outline any qualifications, licences and specific requirements of the role. If you are interested in this job we encourage you to read the attached role description and talk to the contact officer.

• Applications will remain current for a period of up to 12 months and may be considered for other vacancies (identical or similar).
• Appointments are subject to criminal history checks in accordance with section 52 of the Public Sector Act 2022.
• Prior to appointment, current and previous public sector employees are required to disclose any history of serious disciplinary action in accordance with section 71 of the Public Sector Act 2022.
• All employees are required to disclose any interest/s that conflict, may conflict or may be perceived to conflict with the discharge of their duties in accordance with section 89, 182 or 183 of the Public Sector Act 2022.

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Further information

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• SLQ686295 Library Technician, Metadata - RD (PDF, 109KB)
  Role Description