Seriously: Humbul Humanities Hub is recruiting web cataloguers.
They’re looking for “freelance Subject Reviewers and up to two Metadata Editors for work up until July 2005 initially.”
* Subject Reviewers are responsible for evaluating and describing in detail Internet resources which are suitable for inclusion within the current Humbul catalogue. To do this work, you must be able to identify new, relevant resources for your broad subject area(s).
* Metadata Editors are responsible for completing existing Humbul records of Internet resources by adding additional information, such as the resource’s author and publisher, and the type of resource.
Deadline for applications: 11 February 2005.
Interviews will be held in Oxford at the end of February. Apart from initial training, subject reviewers can do the work “in your own time and from any location” (although you need to be eligible to work in the UK). The Metadata Editors may need to be based in Oxford. They look ideal for PhD students in the process of writing up (well, it’s got to be better than stacking shelves).
Here are what they outline as their ‘priority subject areas’:
* Due to Humbul’s current collection development priorities, preference will be given to applicants with expertise, as a result of postgraduate study or library experience, in one or more of the following subject areas:
Comparative Literature
Celtic Studies
Italian Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Japanese Studies
Chinese Studies
Slavonic and East European Studies (including Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukranian, as well as other East European and Baltic languages).* The following subject areas form the next priority level for collection development. Individuals with expertise in one or more of these areas, as a result of postgraduate study or library experience, are also encouraged to apply:
History
Australasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Russian Studies
Scandinavian Studies
African Studies
Classics