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Smithsonian Institution
Associate Director, Digital Services Division
access and dissemination or to develop authoritative new approaches, methods, or standards to
resolve critical or highly unusual information problems. The work affects the policies, standards,
and principles used by librarians, the development of major aspects of library programs, or the
efficiency of library services rendered to clientele within or outside the agency or major
component. The work directly affects the users of the Libraries, both Smithsonian Institution
staff and national and international scholars dependent on information about and access to SIL
collections for scholarly research.
Personal Contacts
The incumbent has extensive and intensive contacts with fellow SIL executives, senior
Smithsonian administrators other SI personnel including researchers and scholars the
internnational library and information science community and his/her own staff.
Purpose of Contacts
The contacts are to ensure the provision of timely, thorough, accurate technical and automated
library services to the Libraries and the Smithsonian community. The incumbent maintains
strong cooperative relations with other members of SIL’s senior executive staff to assure that the
needs for technical and automated library services are met. Contacts within and without the
Smithsonian are to establish and maintain consultative relationships and to exchange
information. Contacts within the national and international library community are for the
purpose of exploring and implementing cooperative programs and projects to increase the
resources available to SIL staff, as well as to identify and assess trends in technical and
automated library services. The high level of contacts requires character, tact, and sound
judgment.
Physical Demands
The work is largely sedentary however, walking, bending and climbing usual in libraries is
occasionally present.
Work Environment
The work environment is a normal office setting suitable for the post. The office is currently
physically located in Washington, D.C. in the National Museum of Natural History.
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