Dear AJL Members,
USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education is seeking a Thesaurus Specialist to join its Archiving, Indexing, and Metadata team within Information Technology Services. This position reports to the USC Shoah Foundation Manager of Metadata. The Thesaurus Specialist (Library Tech Specialist) will be responsible for overseeing and expanding the Institute’s circa 70,000-term thesaurus used for indexing its Holocaust and genocide collections of audio- and audiovisual oral histories. The thesaurus management work involves researching, writing, and organizing indexing terms, as well as creating the appropriate hierarchical structures according to existing standards (USC Shoah Foundation Thesaurus Management Guidelines) and using proprietary software. USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education develops empathy, understanding, and respect through testimony, using its Visual History Archive of more than 55,000 video testimonies, academic programs and partnerships across USC and 170 universities, and award-winning I Witness education program. USC Shoah Foundation's interactive programming, research and materials are accessed in museums and universities, cited by government leaders and NGOs, and taught in classrooms around the world. Now in its third decade, USC Shoah Foundation reaches millions of people on six continents from its home at the University of Southern California. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, War and Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and anti-Rohingya mass violence. It also includes testimonies about contemporary acts of violence against Jews. Link to apply: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/thesaurus-specialist-library-tech-specialist/1209/31683351984__;!!KGKeukY!yKfuix7Z5mE1Ocm96YPnmqbuTbkhunfWSnYK9tbiC101jLqUqSManw8zT1fXTaH_PWGjRHyhQMYxXRHvlKfkzOo9nx71jMVYMA$ Thank you! Sandra Aguilar, M.L.I.S. Manager of Metadata USC Shoah Foundation
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