Multimedia Collections Specialist
Life As a Multimedia Collections Specialist
Job Description & Duties Prepare, plan, and operate multimedia teaching aids for use in education. May record, catalogue, and file materials.
Responsibilities
- Plan and prepare audio-visual teaching aids and methods for use in school systems.
- Install audio-visual equipment.
- Set up, adjust, and operate audio-visual equipment, such as cameras, film and slide projectors, and recording equipment, for meetings, events, classes, seminars, and video conferences.
- Acquire, catalog, and maintain collections of audio-visual material such as films, video- and audio-tapes, photographs, and software programs.
- Direct and coordinate activities of assistants and other personnel during production.
- Determine formats, approaches, content, levels, and mediums necessary to meet production objectives effectively and within budgetary constraints.
Things a Multimedia Collections Specialist Should Know How to Do
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Related Job Titles for this Occupation
- Media Technician
- Visual Coordinator
- Video Coordinator
- Programmer Analyst
- Audio Video Technician
Tools & Technology
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Access
- Word processing software
- Data visualization software
- Microsoft Windows
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Microsoft Visio
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Facebook
- Microsoft Publisher
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Extensible Markup Language XML
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver