Resource Management & Description Coordinator

🇺🇸 Villanova, PA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Operations

🗓️ June 17th, 2025

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Villanova University is hiring a Resource Management & Description Coordinator. This role manages daily operations in resource management including cataloging, acquisitions, order management, and administration while overseeing physical and electronic resources such as databases, online journals, and eBooks using bibliographic databases and vendor systems.

Highlights

Manage acquisitions and order processing using vendor systems and bibliographic databases.
Perform cataloging and resource description control following bibliographic standards like MARC and Library of Congress.
Handle electronic resource management, including activation and troubleshooting of electronic resources.
Process materials handling tasks such as check-ins, binding, and withdrawals of physical and digital materials.
Provide administrative support including supply ordering and supervising student employees.
Monitor materials budgets and report on expenditures and acquisitions.
Use software tools including Microsoft Office, electronic resource management utilities, integrated library systems like EBSCOnet and GOBI.
Minimum qualifications: high school diploma or equivalent, proficiency with email, internet browsers, and office applications, strong organizational and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications: bachelor’s degree, relevant experience, knowledge of bibliographic control procedures and library classification systems.
Position is full-time, 12 months, within the Falvey Library department; salary is commensurate with experience.