UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SYSTEM

Position Announcement

Electronic Text Librarian

        The University Library System is seeking an Electronic Text Librarian.
The University Library System is an AA/EOE aggressively committed to
increasing diversity in our workplace and strongly encourages applications
from candidates who can contribute in this area.

Responsibilities:

The Electronic Text Librarian is a faculty librarian position reporting to the
Assistant Director for Automated and Technical Services.  The responsibilities
of this position encompass a broad range of activities related to the
development and implementation of electronic text and digital document
services at the University of Pittsburgh.  The incumbent is also expected to
participate in planning and problem solving related to technological
applications within Automated and Technical Services.  Participates in digital
technology related research and development efforts.

Leads the planning, development, and implementation of electronic text
services for the University Library System including serving as chair of the
Electronic Text Project Team during the research and development phase.

Guides the Project Team and staff with ongoing responsibilities related to
electronic text services in the creation of specific electronic editions and
their access over the network.

Maintains expertise in the Standard Generalized Markup Language, the Text
Encoding Initiative, and SGML text markup software and trains library staff in
their use.

Writes software programs as necessary.

Establishes and maintains expertise in World Wide Web server software, the
Hypertext Markup Language, WWW client software, and writing scripts for
serving information through the Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Common Gateway
Interface.

Conducts analysis and specifies software and hardware systems to support
electronic text and digital document creation, processing, and network serving
applications.

Installs, configures, and is the system administrator for the server dedicated
to text-serving over the network.
Installs, configures and maintains software to support network text-serving
applications.

Participates in proposal writing and development activities to support
electronic text services and other information technology initiatives.

Works to develop new and creative library services and products based in
electronic text and digital document technologies.

Serves on the Library Information Technology Team and Network Resources
Committee to establish policies and procedures for the collection,
organization, and access to electronic texts and digital documents.

Works in cooperation with other University units involved with networked
information services and/or electronic and digital text creation or services
including Computing and Information Services (CIS) and the School of Library
and Information Science (SLIS).

Develops and maintains knowledge of the general and current state-of-the-art
in technologies related to the creation of and access to electronic tests,
scanning and optical character recognition and related methods of digital
preservation.  Understands the comparisons and issues of bibliographic control
and their relationships to electronic text markup and encoding.

Participates in and contributes to professional organizations and
publications.

Performs related duties as assigned or needed.

As a faculty member in the University Library System, the incumbent
participates in shared collegial decision making and planning, and is expected
to:  participate actively in committees and special ad hoc projects; establish
and maintain communication with faculty and patrons in other areas of the
University, serve the need for information and access to information
resources, and to make contributions to the library profession in general and
engage in professional development activities.

Qualifications:
Required:  ALA-accredited MLS, MSIS, or recognized equivalent.  Minimum of
three years relevant library experience.  Experience with electronic text
serving systems and World Wide Web serving software, online integrated library
systems, wide-area or campus networks, the Internet, and electronic resource
sharing.  Preferred:  Demonstrated training, presentation, and documentation
skills.  Demonstrated project management experience.  Thorough knowledge of
SGML, related text structuring standards and markup languages; experience in
applying the Text Encoding Initiative DTD.  Knowledge of MARC bibliographic
coding and demonstrated experience and interest in the field of cataloging and
the organization of networked information.  Experience with OCR systems,
optical scanning and related technologies, in a library-applications
environment.  Experience with maintaining systems in a Novell Netware,
LANWorkplace, and TCP/IP environment.  Working knowledge of two foreign
languages.  Record of professional involvement and publications in the field
of networked information.

Salary:  $28,000 minimum, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
To apply, submit letter of application, current resume and the
names/addresses/phone numbers of three references to:  William Gentz,
Personnel Librarian, 271 Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260.  Applications received by March 31, 1995 will receive
primary consideration.