# Manager, Visual Materials Cataloging

**Company**: Nypl
**Location**: Long Island City, New York
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Library

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## Description

The Manager of Visual Materials Cataloging oversees the visual materials cataloging function at the New York Public Library (NYPL), ensuring accurate and appropriate bibliographical description of special collections visual materials.

Responsibilities:

- Perform and oversee original and copy cataloging for a wide range of visual materials

- Plan, coordinate, and manage visual materials cataloging workflows

- Develop and maintain departmental cataloging documentation

- Participate in the development of institution-wide cataloging standards

- Review and evaluate cataloging work to ensure accuracy and quality

- Contribute to organizational and logistical tasks related to the receipt and accessioning of current acquisitions

- Lead or contribute to strategic initiatives and projects that advance the description, discovery, and access of visual materials

- Represent NYPL in relevant professional organizations, conferences, and collaborative projects

Requirements:

- ALA-accredited MLS / MLIS or advanced degree in a related field

- 5+ years experience cataloging visual materials in a research or academic library, museum, or other setting

- 3+ years experience managing complex cataloging projects

- Experience working with born-digital photographs and visual materials

- Demonstrated experience cataloging photographic and visual materials according to established descriptive and encoding standards

Skills:

- Strong original cataloging skills for visual materials

- Familiarity with visual materials standards like DCRM(G), VRA-Core, CCO, BIBFRAME ARM ontology, and CIDOC-CRM

- Proven research, analytical, organizational, planning, and time-management skills

- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- cataloging
- visual materials
- metadata
- library standards
- communication

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