Amazon's Cataloging Job: Without LIS & Metadata Education!

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• Digital Music Catalog Specialist, Amazon Digital Music

  
  

  - Diligent work ethic and attention to detail
  - Strong personal integrity
  - Excellent written and oral communication
  - Familiarity with managing product flow in a digital supply chain – maximizing efficiency, reducing cycle time, maintaining quality, etc.
  - Customer Service and Technical Support experience preferred.
  - Strong technical aptitude and expertise with MS Windows, MS Office tools including MS-Excel. Experience with SQL a plus.
  - Familiarity with common digital media formats and digital transmission methods such as FTP and SFTP
  - Team player with demonstrated capability to work in a cross-functional environment.
  - Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to get things done.
  - College degree or equivalent work experience preferred up to 2 years; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  - Able to diagnose technical issues on a variety of platforms and tools in order to address and troubleshoot chronic system problems.

• Software Engineer, Catalog Product Classification

  Bachelor’s Degree or above in Computer Science or related field
  5+ years’ professional experience in software development
  Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
  Strong problem solving skills
  Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language such as Java
  Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  Experience building software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

  
  

• Technical Program Manager - Item Data Authority

  Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Math or related field
  • 5+ years professional experience in software development
  • 3+ years in technical program management (Experience owning a program/product/feature, scoping requirements, planning milestones, project management and working with technical teams)
  • 2+ years of experience in data collection (SQL) and data analysis (scripting language like Perl, Python or similar)

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  Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Computer science/Math or related field
  • 7+ years professional experience in software development
  • 5+ years in technical program management (Experience owning a program/product/feature, scoping requirements, planning milestones, project management and working with technical teams)
  • Proven analytical thinking, skills in metrics creation and project management, attention to details, and exceptional organizational skills
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Strong fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
  • Experience with Scrum or Agile development a plus
  • High level familiarity with data mining or machine learning

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The Library of the Future of 2000 as envisioned by Lydia de Queiroz Sambaquy in 1972 @ Ideas for Libraries

Extract:

Ideas for libraries aims to maintain the will and efforts of people like Lydia de Queiroz Sambaquy (1913-2006), a brazilian librarian, which was a very active supporter of the development and progress of libraries and scientific documentation in Brazil.

She studied Librarianship at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, the first in Brazil, and also at the University of Columbia in 1941 and 1942. She fought for the recognition of the importance of libraries for Brazil, often in charge of librarianship activities and scientific documentation in the country since 1945.

In her article entitled “The Library of the Future” published in 1972 (see it here, in portuguese: https://medium.com/@morenovsky/a-biblioteca-do-futuro-35424c095d4e), Sambaquy reports that she would like to have a time machine to visit a library in the year 2000 and have a glimpse of how they would be:: continue reading

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