Cataloguing Project Manager

University of Hull; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Hull is seeking a Cataloguing Project Manager to join the Library’s Collections Development Team. The role is full time (36.5 hours per week) on a fixed term basis for six months, with a salary in the Band 6 range (£33,002 to £38,784 per annum).

You will catalogue across Hull sites, including Blaydes House and Hull History Centre, ensuring professional standards and coordinating with colleagues in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Education.

Qualifications

• Must have a recognised qualification in library and information management.
• Experience with library management systems, particularly the cataloguing functions.
• Knowledge of MARC, RDA, AACR2, and Library of Congress schedules.
• Project management experience with demonstrable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Catalogue collections to professional standards and manage the transfer of catalogue records.
• Coordinate with teams across the University to support metadata activity.
• Liaise with colleagues in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Education and the Collections Development Team.
• Engage in continuing professional development.

Skills

Catalogue management

Project management

Library systems experience

Sierra software

Education

Library and information management qualification

Tools

MARC

RDA

AACR2

Library of Congress schedules

Job description

Cataloguing Project Manager

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Salary Range: £33,002.00 - £38,784.00

Band 6 (UO24 to UO30) £33,002 - £38,784 per annum

Full Time - 36.5 hours per week Fixed Term for 6 months

This position will work at University sites across Hull, primarily Blaydes House in the historic Old Town and the Cottingham Road campus.

The Cataloguing Project Manager is a new full-time, fixed-term post available for six months through funding from the Maritime History Trust.

The postholder will be part of the Library’s Collections Development Team, reporting to the Collections Development Manager.

You will work with Library and Archive colleagues as required, and liaise with staff in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Education, which has oversight of Blaydes House, particularly colleagues working at Blaydes House.

Blaydes House was built for the Blaydes family in the 18th century as a hub to manage the family’s merchant and shipbuilding businesses. More recently, it has been the home of the University of Hull’s Blaydes Maritime Centre and its substantial library and archive collections. The University is relocating these collections, which will continue to support research and teaching either at Hull or elsewhere.

To enable this, the collections need to be fully catalogued to professional standards so that the transfer of physical items is accompanied by the export/import of catalogue records to the library management systems of the new locations.

You will have a recognised qualification in library and information management and/or experience relevant to the post.

Your experience will include:

• working with library management systems, particularly the cataloguing functions.
• Experience of Sierra is desirable, not essential.
• current metadata standards, MARC, RDA, AACR2, and Library of Congress schedules.
• project management, for which you will be able to demonstrate the outcomes from previous work.

You will be actively engaged in continuing professional development.

The role will primarily be located at Blaydes House to work in situ with the collections, with work also at the University Library and Hull History Centre as necessary. As part of that, there will also be opportunities to work with colleagues in the Collections Development Team more broadly in support of wider Library metadata activity (library collections, research outputs, digital collections).

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Maggie Sarjantson, Collections Development Manager E: [e-mail]

Applications close at 00:01am of the closing date listed.

At the University of Hull, we are committed to building a community where everyone feels respected, valued and able to succeed. We recognise that diverse perspectives strengthen our university and the impact of our work. We particularly welcome applications from people who are underrepresented within our workforce, including people from global majority backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women, particularly in senior roles.