Serials Conversion Assistant, Portland, OR

["John R. Mead" <johnmead@teleport.com>]

Please accept my apologies for cross-posting this to Circplus, libjobs,
libs-or, Serialst and the PNLA listserves; we want to hire someone for this
position, so we're trying all the appropriate lists we know of!  If any of
you have the addresses of library support listserves in the Pacific
Northwest area, *please* forward this position to them!  Thanks!

Yours, John Mead, johnmead@teleport.com [home], johnm@ohs.org [work; home
works better, our work email system *will* *not* send mail to AOL, and has
other "undocumented features"]

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Serials Assistant/Retrospective Conversion
1.00 FTE (36.25 hrs./wk.)
$8.62/hr.
Non-exempt position (N-08)
Temporary position through September 30, 1998
Closing date: April 15, 1997
Position availability: May 1, 1997
Contact: John Mead, Director, Reference & Research Collections, Oregon
Historical
Society Library, 1200 SW Park Ave., Portland, OR 97205 (503) 306-5245

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Position description: Serials Assistant needed for library serials retrospective
conversion project.  Responsible for retrospective conversion of existing
library serials
records from manual to machine-readable format in preparation for inclusion
in an
online public access catalog [Horizon (GUI version of Dynix)].  Searches and
selects
online cataloging records for comparison with existing OHS serials Kardex
cards. 
Evaluates online records for completeness.  Performs online editing necessary to
upgrade cataloging records to national and local database standards,
including addition
of Oregon Union List of Serials data.

SPECIFIC JOB SKILLS: General familiarity with serials control, machine readable
cataloging (MARC), OCLC, and the OCLC Union List Subsystem.  Accurate keyboard
skills, attention to detail, capacity to work independently, and ability to
strike reasonable
balance between quality and productivity considerations.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree required and a minimum of one
year's experience with online serials' control using OCLC (including the
Union List
segment); experience using a local system (preferably Dynix/Horizon) a plus.
Working
knowledge of Windows/OS2 required.

Serials Assistant will report to the Director, Reference & Research Collections.