Position: Specialist in Legislative Information Systems Managmenet, GS-14
Organization: Congressional Research Service
Location: Washington DC
Application Deadline: September 29, 2009
Date Posted: September 11, 2009
Description: The Congressional Research Service (CRS) Office of Legislative Information (LIN) seeks a Specialist in Legislative Information Systems Management to plan, design, develop, test, implement, support, maintain, evaluate, and enhance the Legislative Information System of the U.S. Congress (“the LIS”) website. The person selected for this position will provide project leadership and develop long-range plans and recommendations for the strategic direction of the LIS in support of the CRS mission. Duties include working with stakeholders to provide strategic planning, customer support, system design, and technical evaluation activities for the LIS and congressional and CRS users of the LIS.

Candidates with experience in business case analyses (e.g., feasibility studies and alternative analyses), project management, and standard information management and delivery practices (e.g., XML, analytics and metrics, usability and user-centered design, retrieval systems and search engines, web page creation, information architecture, user requirements, acceptance testing, and user support) are encouraged to apply.

This position is being offered at the GS-14 level ($102,721-$133,543). Please apply online at: www.loc.gov/crsinfo. If you are unable to apply online, please call 202.707.5627 to request an applicant job kit and refer to vacancy #090206 in all correspondence.

Position: Technical Services/Taxonomy Librarian
Organization: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC
Application Deadline:September 18, 2009
Date Posted: September 3, 2009
Description: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health (U. S. DHHS), located in beautiful Research Triangle Park, NC, has a job opening for a Technical Services/Taxonomy Librarian, GS-1410-9/11/12. Salary range $48,066-$90,610. The closing date is September 18, 2009.

As a Librarian at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, you will provide research services to clients that require searching various sources of scientific information using a variety of methods and systems. You will use taxonomies to subject index and/or create original catalog and authority records and metadata for subject analysis and classification of scientific data and to catalog library materials. You will perform collection management and interlibrary loan functions. You will respond to questions regarding library policies and procedures and develop narrative reports, charts, tables, graphs, and statistic reports in response to requests for information. At the higher levels, you will serve as technical advisor to less experienced staff. Also, you will evaluate and customize taxonomies and metadata schemas in the environmental health domain.

For more information and to apply, go to USAjobs: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=83171984

Position: Director of Avery Research Institute
Organization: College of Charleston
Location: Charleston, SC
Application Deadline: Until Filled
Date Posted: August 27, 2009
Description: The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, a historic site at the College of Charleston, is seeking a director. Through its research facilities, museum exhibits, archival collections and numerous outreach programs, Avery tells the rich story of the lives and contributions of Africans and African Americans in South Carolina with special emphasis on the Low Country.

More information can be found online at www.cofc.edu/library/jobs/index.php