Job Description

The St. Louis Mercantile Library is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic Librarian/Assistant Curator in support of its historical transportation collection.  The Mercantile Library, now in its 178th year, is the oldest library in continuous existence west of the Mississippi River, holds deep collections of rare book,s corporate archives, early American manuscripts, cultural ephemera of all kinds-some collected since frontier days, as well as American art and graphics.  The Mercantile Library affiliated with the University of Missouri in 1997 to make its collections more accessible to a national and international patronage as well as to local students.  It is situated on the beautiful north St. Louis County campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The collection has grown rapidly in recent years. 

The Historical Transportation Studies Librarian / Assistant Curator is an essential member of the Mercantile Library’s vibrant and dynamic curatorial team, a highly motivated ensemble that works collaboratively to collect, preserve, and by extension redefine American history for 21st century applications and research.  The successful candidate for this position will catalog, organize, arrange, and make a wide array of interdisciplinary materials accessible for modern researchers in-person and world-wide.  In support of the head curator of transportation collections, this position performs original and copy-cataloguing of our comprehensive transportation materials in all formats and processes archival and manuscript transportation materials, and will perform other tasks related to collections access and research.  Specific duties of this dynamic position include:   

• In collaboration with the head transportation curator, establishes cataloguing priorities and designs and implements project plans to achieve those priorities. 
• Catalogues monographs, manuscripts, maps, serials, music, audiovisual and ephemera acquired for the transportation collections and addresses a cataloging backlog. 
• Accessions and processes new transportation acquisitions and backlog holdings. 
• Effectively communicates with team members and other members of the library community, while contributing to and sustaining a supportive and inclusive workplace. 
• Works in conjunction with the University Libraries Access Services department and the Mercantile Library’s cataloging staff to ensure that the St. Louis Mercantile Library’s catalogue conforms to the requirements of the FOLIO system and any future software used for cataloguing material in the library. 
• Applies appropriate conservation measures to ensure their proper storage. 
• Collaborates with the University Libraries Access Services Department as needed regarding Library cataloguing processes and software.  
• Manages student employees and volunteers who assist with functions related to special collections cataloging and processing. 
• Represents the St. Louis Mercantile Library on committees and task forces related to primary job assignment or at the request of the Director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library or Dean of UMSL Libraries. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

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