Opportunities: Library Assistant at the FID Jewish Studies

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg of the University of Frankfurt am Main seeks to fill a vacancy for a fixed-term position as library assistant (E 10 TV-G-U) at the FID Jewish Studies for a period of 15 months.

As part of the Specialised Information Services for Science Program of the DFG, the JCS University Library is building up subject-specific supra-regional information infrastructures and developing them further in close cooperation with the respective subject communities. Here you will be responsible for:

• librarian support of the services offered by the FID Jewish Studies, e.g. the subject repository JudaicaDoc;
• Revrit (automatic procedure for retransliteration of Hebraica title data) and the LOD service JudaicaLink;
• indexing of literature and e-resources of Jewish Studies;
• creation and maintenance of concordances between subject-specific classification systems and common national and international classifications to optimise subject indexing (RVK, DDC, Library of Congress Subject Headings);
• creation and processing of authority files (persons, corporate bodies, titles of works);
• librarian support in advising researchers as part of the FID Jewish Studies as well as target-group-specific user training;
• librarian support for cooperation with national and international partners of the FID Jewish Studies.

You fulfill the following requirements:

• completed training for the higher service at academic libraries (Diplombibliothekar*in) or as Diplom-Informationswirt*in (FH) with a degree in library studies (FH) or as Fachwirt*in für Informationsdienste
• good English language skills
• good knowledge of the library system, preferably with experience in the field of special collections
• interest in research-related library services
• willingness to familiarize yourself with the requirements of library services for Jewish Studies
• good knowledge of common metadata standards for written cultural heritage, in particular cataloging rules (RDA), the rulesof the DNB's Integrated Authority File (GND) and common library classification systems (DDC, RVK)
• good knowledge of library management systems (e.g. Pica module CBS)
• strong ability to work in a team, high sense of responsibility and open-mindedness towards new challenges

We would be delighted if we could win you over for this position and for working with us.

Please submit your application documents by May 13, 2025, quoting the reference number 07/2025, preferably by e-mail to:
jobs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (please in a single PDF format) or in writing to the directorate of the University Library Johann Christian
Senckenberg, Freimannplatz 1, 60325 Frankfurt am Main. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Kerstin von der Krone (K.vonderKrone@ub.uni-frankfurt.de).