Job Description

Librarian II

The Librarian II entails a broad range of responsibilities within a library or information center setting, including interlibrary loan management, cataloging, acquisitions, reference support, and web content provision. May involve supervisory or team leadership duties and the training of librarians and library support staff. Key tasks include planning and organizing activities to ensure resources are accessible to customers, developing marketing strategies to promote resource use, and offering orientation and training to new staff. Collaborates with government entities on collection development, security, and access guidelines, ensuring collection maintenance, conducting research, verifying citations, and fulfilling literature requests. Requires compiling and analyzing library statistics for organizational reporting and operates independently to meet project goals and requirements.

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. serves as a holding company with multiple subsidiaries engaged in several lines of business for the federal government and commercial enterprises. A portion of our profits is used to support Chickasaw citizens. We are proud to support the economic development and long-term viability of the Chickasaw Nation and its people. CNI offers premium benefits eligible on the first day of hire to full time employees; (Medical, Dental, Vision), Company Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(K) Immediate Vesting, Professional Development Assistance, Legal Aid Assistance Program, Family Planning / Fertility Assistance, Personal Time Off, and Observance of Federal Holidays.

As a federal contractor, CNI is a drug-free workplace and adheres to the Federal Controlled Substance Act.

Essential Requirements

• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required customer clearance for access to systems, facilities, equipment and property.
• Possesses experience with finding and searching scientific and technical information resources.
• Possesses experience in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Reference Librarians and Interlibrary Loan Librarians should have expertise in citation searching one or more major on-line commercial vendors (Dialog, STN, Questel, Lexis/Nexis) and expertise in finding information on the Internet.
• Interlibrary Loan Librarians should have experience in searching OCLC for location holdings information at source libraries.
• Catalogers should have expertise in online cataloging systems, (e.g. Horizon, the current online catalog at PTO), current MARC/Conser standards and LC classification system.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists in interlibrary loan, cataloging, acquisitions, reference assistance, research, and provision of information center web page content.
• Assists with planning, organizing, and coordinating work activities involved in obtaining and making library and information center resources available to customers.
• Assists in user training efforts and in the development of documentation for new staff and USPTO employees. Assists with marketing efforts for promoting the information center and its available resources.
• Provides information and updates for content of information center web pages. Makes recommendations for collection development decisions.
• Assists with updating and maintaining collections (both physical and electronic collections).
• Follows guidelines for the security of library collections and equipment.
• Performs general research and citation verification using on-line search techniques, automated tools, and other resources as necessary.
• Analyzes requests, interviews requesters when needed, and develops strategies, reviews and provides results.
• Processes and fills requests for full text literature from internal and external resources (interlibrary loan function).
• Assists with compilation of library statistics.
• Works independently under overall project objectives and requirements.
• Apprises supervisor about progress and unusual complications

Education and Experience

Master's degree and a minimum of three (3) years of library/information center experience. Education requirement may be waived by five (5) years of progressively advanced practical experience in the field.

Physical Demands

Work is primarily performed in an office environment. Regularly required to sit. Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms to handle objects and operate tools, computer, and/or controls. Required to speak and hear. Occasionally required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Exposed to general office noise with computers printers and light traffic.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

EOE Including Disability/Vet

Your application submission will be considered for all potential employment opportunities with Chickasaw Nation Industries (CNI).

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