Dear colleagues,
I am happy to announce an exciting opportunity to work with all formats of serials and other continuing resources in both national and international environments as a librarian in the ISSN Section of the U.S. Programs, Law, and Literature
Division, Directorate of Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access at the Library of Congress. The vacancy announcement is for a librarian (GS 9 with non-competitive promotion potential to GS 13). Although the position description on USAJobs covers cataloging
and acquisition of both monographs and serials, the daily work to be performed is specific to the ISSN Section. The ISSN Section functions as the U.S. ISSN Center, part of the 90-country ISSN Network. The U.S. ISSN Center is responsible for assigning International
Standard Serial Numbers to U.S. continuing resources, including serials and integrating resources. Over 40% of the ISSN assigned by the U.S. ISSN Center are for online resources that can include databases, web sites, conference proceedings, and institutional
repositories as well as e-journals. The incumbent of this position will assign ISSN primarily in response to requests from publishers but also from requesters such as the U. S. Postal Service, digitizers, aggregators and other vendors, CONSER libraries, and
other ISSN centers worldwide. The incumbent will also interact with U.S. ISSN requesters by email and telephone as well as with staff of the ISSN International Centre in Paris and other ISSN centers. The incumbent follows the
ISSN Manual as well as LC, CONSER, and RDA documentation to assign ISSN and create or update CONSER records to document ISSN assignments. The most critical function of this position is uniquely identifying continuing resources and distinguishing them
from similar resources by assigning ISSN and creating unique key titles and accompanying bibliographic records. Other key functions include relating continuing resources appropriately to other resources, searching multiple complex bibliographic databases to
interpret and identify bibliographic records, locating the corresponding electronic resources online; responding to email queries; using a program to create initial bibliographic control records in an integrated library system from publisher-supplied data
and other technical and communication tasks.
We welcome a diverse group of applicants who wish to engage in the unique work of an ISSN center as the ISSN Network engages in revision the ISSN standard and prepares to participate in the emerging linked data environment.
To apply for this position, which opened today and closes on February 14, please use this link:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/489947000
Best wishes,
Regina
Regina Romano Reynolds
Director, U.S. ISSN Center
Head, ISSN Section
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
(202) 707-6379 (voice)
(202) 707-6333 (fax)