Cataloging Consultant - Kabul, Afghanistan‏

Cataloging Consultant
(Temporary)

The American University of Afghanistan (AUAf) seeks an experienced cataloger to help create a technical services department in a nascent academic library. We seek someone willing to give us the benefit of their expertise for three months to a year. The position would be ideal for a recently retired cataloger, in excellent health, who is willing to tolerate a little discomfort and perhaps even a modicum of danger for the opportunity to change the world by contributing to the rebuilding and revitalization of Afghanistan after its thirty years of war and political disruption.

For universities seeking a role in development and capacity-building in Afghanistan, especially those with large library technical services departments, AUAf urges them to consider sending an experienced and amiable cataloger to us on a temporary duty assignment.

Position responsibilities:

• Introduce best practices cataloging to a developing library.
• Advise and assist in establishing a small technical services department that adheres to American academic library standards.
• Advise and assist in using the fullest potential and all relevant features of the open source Koha 3.01 Zoom integrated library system. (Familiarity with Koha is preferred, but not essential)
• Upgrade the skills of copy cataloging staff.
• Teach original cataloging to cataloging staff.
• Examine up to 5,000 current catalog records for accuracy, completeness, and usability.
• Create records for new material.
• Help formulate the best method of using the ILS for inventory control and distribution of textbooks.
• Recommend and/or implement methods for the collection, documentation, digitization, and accessibility of gray literature, governmental and NGO reports, and/or Internet sites pertaining to Afghanistan.

Salary: $5,000 per month plus housing and transportation
Qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS and three years of full-time cataloging experience in an American academic library.
Send resume and letter of inquiry to Mike Hanson, Director of the Library, American University of Afghanistan: mhanson@auaf.edu.af

All who read this announcement are urged to disseminate it as widely as possible among the cataloging community.


Mike Hanson
Director of the Library
American University of Afghanistan
P.O. Box 458, Central Post Office
Darulaman Road
Kabul, Afghanistan

www.auaf.edu.af
In-Country: 0794-558-925
International: 93-794-558-925