Metadata Services Technician

Metadata Services Technician

(This Temporary Full Time Opportunity is available for up to eighteen (18) months)

Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary journey to shape the future of Ontario's Legislative Assembly, with innovation and excellence in parliamentary operations? At the Office of the Assembly, we're not just supporting Parliament; we’re a dynamic team dedicated to driving change and making an impact every day.

At the heart of our mission is to provide non-partisan administrative and procedural services to all MPPs, along with operational support for the daily activities of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Our success is intricately tied to the strength and diversity of our staff, as we champion our core values: integrity, inclusiveness, collaboration, and excellence.

Looking for a rewarding career where you can share your expertise in a library and information technician capacity? Seize this opportunity to embody our organizational values within our Legislative Library Branch. As a valued member of our team, reporting directly to the Supervisor, Metadata Services, you will collaborate closely with a dynamic group of library professionals.

What You’ll Do

You’ll act with integrity to:

• Create original descriptive and derived cataloguing and authority records for print and digital government documents and commercial publications following international standards, such as RDA and MARC 21, and in-house policies
• Assign subject headings using LCSH and CSH
• Create CODOC classification numbers and verify Dewey numbers
• Edit bibliographic and authority records and modify the holding records to reflect added copies for both monographs and serials
• Download from the internet and archive to the library’s digital repository selected Ontario government monographs and serial issues  based on the collection policy
• Determine the choice and form of access points to ensure uniformity and consistency of headings, and create and review authority records for accuracy
• Assist with the application of metadata standards to Assembly information repositories and assets.

You’ll support our collaboration as you:

• Monitor Ontario government websites on a daily basis to identify new born-digital publications
• Create bibliographic records for print and digital library resources making them discoverable via the online catalogue
• Are a key member of the team responsible for producing the Monthly Checklist of Ontario government documents
• Alternate the responsibility of assigning ISBNs and ISSNs to Ontario government document with your co-workers

How You Qualify

You demonstrate excellence through your:

• Completion of a 2 year Library Technician program (or equivalent) and previous work experience in an automated cataloguing environment
• Familiarity with Ex Libris’s Alma library services platform is an asset
• Working knowledge of government publications as well as library and bibliographic metadata and encoding standards such as RDA, AACR2, MARC21, LCSH and Dewey Decimal Classification
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills, in addition to the ability to work within teams to solve problems, share and communicate knowledge
• Effective oral and written communication skills, as well as excellent interpersonal skills

Here’s what awaits you:

• A dynamic, unique work environment
• A team of dedicated professionals
• Support for your career through training and development
• Access to an employee and family assistance program