Job Posting: Data Services Coordinator

[John R. Little]

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Data Services Coordinator 
Public Documents and Maps Department



General Description

The Public Documents and Maps Department is a unit the Perkins Library System 
with responsibilities for collection development, public services, technical 
services, computer equipment and support, and physical maintenance of the 
collection of state, federal and international documents and maps.   The Data 
Services Coordinator is a member of the Public Documents and Maps team, and as 
resource specialist for data resources (primarily in the social sciences),  is 
responsible for acquisition and processing of, and providing access to these 
materials;  administering the department's Web pages and online services and 
representing the department on related committees;   providing high quality 
reference assistance;  conducting bibliographic instruction and staff training 
related to the department's collections and services; and serving as the 
department's liaison to relevant committees and groups.  The position supervises 
one staff member and reports to the Head, Public Documents and Maps Department.

Responsibilities

1.  Serves as resource specialist for data resources primarily in electronic 
form.  Develops, implements and reviews collection policies for data resources 
in consultation with department head and team members,  other resource 
specialists, the library administration, and the University community.  
Identifies and cooperates with other data providers within Duke University, 
TRLN, the Research Triangle and nationally.  Provides individual assistance to 
library users in locating and extracting data and has primary responsibility for 
remote dissemination of data via the World Wide Web.  Provides instruction and 
training in data location and retrieval to Duke faculty, students and staff.  
Supervises one staff member (computer technician).

2.  Provides reference service at the department's public service desk, 
including evening and weekend hours as well as on-call duty for selected 
weekends.  Serves as primary resource person for data materials.  Trains and 
assists staff in providing reference assistance for data materials in all 
formats.  Serves as back-up during time of peak demand for reference service.  
Works with team members to ensure the provision of quality reference assistance 
to users and to continually evaluate the department's reference collection, with 
particular emphasis on data resources in all formats, to ensure that holdings 
meet user needs.

3.  Coordinates design and development of Public Documents and Maps Department 
Web pages.   Works with team members to provide an attractive and useful Web 
presence.   Represents the department on the Web Interface Team.

4.  Responsible for coordinating the selection and purchase of online services 
unique to the department in consultation with department's other librarians.  
Serves as department's representative to the Electronic Access Committee and to 
the Library Information Systems Department.

5.  Collaborates with Duke librarians, faculty, and students to encourage full 
use of the department's resources.  This includes staff training programs, 
library instruction, and classroom presentations for faculty and students as 
well as preparation of bibliographies, guides, displays, homepages, and other 
user aids.

6.   Participates in professional activities at the state and national levels 
that enhance the development and use of data resources and the documents and 
maps collections at Duke.

7.  Other duties as appropriate and mutually agreed upon.





Qualifications

Required: master's degree from an ALA-accredited program; minimum of two years 
experience with government documents or data services; demonstrated knowledge of 
and experience with electronic information resources; demonstrated commitment to 
public service; working knowledge of DOS and Windows computer environments and 
of HTML.  Must be flexible and a self-starter, possess excellent teaching and 
oral and written communication skills, and have the ability to be an 
enthusiastic participant in a team-oriented environment.  Desirable:  experience 
with SAS or SPSS and Extract data retrieval systems; supervisory experience..

Salary and Benefits

Salary dependent upon qualifications and experience, $32,000 minimum.  
Comprehensive benefits package includes 20 days vacation, 3 personal days, 11 
holidays, 12 days sick leave; health, disability and life insurance; retirement 
plan options; educational assistance and tuition grants.

Environment

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke through the 
provisions establishing the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, 
of which Trinity College was the principal beneficiary.  The Dukes had long 
supported Trinity College which traced its origins to a school founded in 1838 
and renamed in 1859 when it affiliated with the Methodist Church.  As a result 
of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent physical and academic expansion into Duke 
University.

Recent decades have seen Duke realize its founder's aspirations to become a 
major center of learning.  The Duke University Medical Center has achieved 
international prominence, and many Duke schools and departments are consistently 
ranked among the nation's best.  The university frequently wins attention for 
its research achievements and academic innovations, and its faculty is often 
called upon to provide leaders for national and international academic and 
professional organizations.  Duke continues to work to honor its founder's 
charge to attain "a place of real leadership in the educational world."  The 
University community includes 11,535 students, 2,073 faculty and 18,500 
employees.

The libraries of Duke University consist of the William R. Perkins Library and 
its seven branches on campus:  Biological and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, 
Lilly, Engineering, Music, Math-Physics, and Rare Book, Manuscript and Special 
Collections; the Pearse Memorial Library at the Duke Marine Laboratory in 
Beaufort; and the independently administered libraries of Divinity, Law, 
Medicine and Business (Fuqua).  Duke's library holdings of 4.6 million volumes, 
eleven million manuscripts and over two million public documents are the eighth 
largest among private universities in the United States.  Duke is a member of 
the Triangle Research Libraries Network which promotes collaboration regarding 
information resources, information technology and human resources with the 
libraries of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina 
Central University and North Carolina State University.

Duke University and Durham are located in the Research Triangle, a region which 
encompasses one of the nation's premier concentrations of academic, corporate 
and public research.  The Triangle region is rated among the most desirable 
areas in North America to live and work, and Durham was recently identified by 
the Utne Reader  as one of the ten most enlightened towns in America.

Deadline

Review of applications will begin in early April and continue until the position 
is filled.

Application

Send cover letter, detailed resum‚ and the names, addresses and telephone 
numbers of three references to:  Sharon A. Sullivan, Director, Personnel 
Services, Perkins Library, Box 90194, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.

Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.  The 
Perkins Library System has a strong commitment to Affirmative Action and is 
actively seeking to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of our staff.


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