Cataloguer

Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.  

 About the Department  

This is your chance to be part of modern, successful, people focused library service. Joining us, you’ll get the chance to learn new skills, explore your interests, and get involved in exciting new projects.   

Our Library at Goldsmiths is at the heart of academic life and the student experience on campus. We have a strong culture of delivering reliable, high quality services, resources and support to all our schools and visitors and we are passionate about continually innovating, developing and improving our offer.   

We are proud of our highly skilled, collaborative staff and of our unique resources, which enable us to support our community in their learning, teaching, scholarship and research.    

 About the Role

The Cataloguer role has ownership of all aspects of metadata creation and organisation, ensuring content in all formats and media is findable by customers. This includes original cataloguing and classification, quality control and metadata optimisation for our catalogues across our Library, Archives and Gallery.

This role is based in our Systems and Content team and works with our Library and special collections and archives, and as a metadata specialist works across the Library to train and coach Senior Library Assistants and Library Assistants on cataloguing and classification.

Academic Enrichment and Skills Development and Systems and Content are key to student and academic experience at Goldsmiths by delivering an efficient, effective service in our provision of appropriately catalogued, classified and processed resources within our main collection, special collections and archives. 

About the Candidate

 You will have experience of working in a library, information service or customer service environment, and, have experience working with metadata across the information resources lifecycle including cataloguing, classification and bibliographic data exchange using current standard.

You will have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, strong customer service and interpersonal skills, and be confident navigating digital and information technologies.

You will be team-orientated, proactive, and flexible and responsive to changing service needs.