Job Title: Pubtrack Metadata Manager - Internship
Department: Data ServiceReports to: Pubtrack Metadata Manager
Works for: Publisher Business Intelligence
FLSA Status: Non ExemptPrepared by: Nathan Schultz
Prepared Date: 1/08/2008
Internship: 5K per season, not including winter
Time: 15 to 20 hours per week
Position Purpose
This is an internship that we would like to offer to Library Science undergraduate or graduate students. The primary purpose of the internship is to provide them practical experience managing subject taxonomies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain mappings between various subject schemes (Publisher to Bowker, Pubtrack-to-BISAC) in order to provide extended subject coverage on Bowker products. Maintain subject mappings sold or licensed to third parties.
Create and monitor subject taxonomies and titles level assignments. Alert outsourcing company when a consistent problem is spotted and provide documentation in the form of rules, guidelines, and terminology. Assist with maintenance of the Pubtrack subject taxonomies and classification of data.
Knowledge and Abilities
- Skilled in various computer programs (Access, Excel, Word, SQL).
- Novice level knowledge of the major subject-classification schemes used in the book industry (LC subjects, Dewey, LC Class Codes, BISAC, BIC).
- B.S. or B.A. in English or related filed
MLS
Experience in database or other related publishing
Language Skills
Excellent understanding of the English language, oral and written.
Physical Demands
The physical demands listed here should be representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of his/her job, i.e., ability to sit, stand, walk, travel up and down stairs, crouch, reach and stoop. Under the ADA, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to concentrate while sitting in one place for long periods at a time.
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, travel up and down stairs, crouch, stoop and reach.
- Ability to lift up 25 lbs.
Basic office environment
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by an individual assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required of personnel so classified.
