i I 11 Hill loll, iiii iiii DRAFT (Library Science) Position Description for Technical Information Specialist GS-13,for CHRPI I. Introduction This position is to be located in the Center for Health Resourses Planning Information, Division of Comprehensive Health Planning. CHRPI is a newly organized component of DCliP, whose principal purpose is to provide State and local health planning agencies with services for access to information they need, which are otherwise not readily available. The Center functions through a Director and a small staff of highly qualified professional and clerical personnel, relying to a substantial extent on operations performed by contract organizations. The contractors are principally responsible for the collection, screening, cataloguing, indexing, abstracting, storage, and retrieval of documents relating to health resource planning, and for access- retrieval services such as automated query in response to requests, @ruri)icliiro C> of microfiche and hard copies of documents, and for analytical literature studies. II. Duties and Responsibilities The duties and responsibilities of the Technical Information Specialist (Library Science), GS-13, will consist of a variety of assignments requiring extensive and highly specialized technical knowledge and experience in the compilation, organization, use and dissemination of research inforT-atio-i,and for the use of library science, computer science and related means in formulating, developing, and coordinating techncial programs, policies, procedures, and operations involved in the functioning of the Center for Health Resource Planning Information, both in reference to inhouse operations and in regard to operations and studies conducted by contractors, grantees, and consultants. Among the principal duties of the position are the following: 1. Design, or advise on design of, procedures for acquiring cataloging, indexing, screening, and abstracting of documents in the CHRPI collection, including the design of quality control for such operations. 2. Design, or advise on design of, procedures for development of classification schemes and related data elements or uniform structures in automated system for data storage and access or retrival, including maintenance of liaison with staffs of HRA and other Government agencies responsible for automated data processing and other technical information services, and staffs of contractors, grantees, or other Government agencies concerned witLi such data schemes and elements. 3. Design or advise on design of bibliographic publications, announce- ments, newsletters, or releases regarding CHRPI services, whether developed by contractors or consultants or produced inhouse. 4. Act as project officer in the design and monitoring of contracts, grants, or inhouse projects in connection with the kinds of activities or operations referred to in the foregoing sections. 5. Design or advise on procedures for handling of information in reference to requirements under the Freedom of Information Act, copyright laws, or other laws or regulations pertaining to the handling of documents by CHRPI or other components of DCHP. 6. Maintain continuous liaison--for the purpose of obtaining information of value to CHRPI, and supplying information on CH"I operations--with I It other information centers, libraries, information retrival networks, and with GPO and other publishers or suppliers of documents, public and private, especially in regard to the technical aspects of document acquisition, processing, storage, and dissemination. In conjunction with the foregoing, the incumbent will prepare reports and memoranda, and represent the Center For Health Resource Planning infor- mation at inter-agency and public meetings, with wide latitude for expression on technical matters, subject to general supervision of the Director of CHRPI in regard to the mission and policies of the center. -V@-JZX,@LORANDUM DEPARTMENT OF HEALTIT, EDUCATION, AND @N'ELFARE PUBLIC HEALTH SER'%"ICE HEALTH RESOURCES AD@IINISTRATION BUREAU OF HEALT14 RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT TO Associate Director for Management, HRP DATE: October 17, 1974 Through: Act. Assoc. Director for Program Development, DCHP FROM Acting Chief, Health Manpower Planning Branch Division of Comprehensive Health Planning SUBJECT: Additional Element in Position Description for Technical Information Specialist, CERPI We submitted to you with our memo of October 16, related to the above subject, a preliminary draft position description. Through inadvertence, a significant element among the duties of this position was omitted. It is as follows, to be inserted immediately before the last paragraph. "7. Provide assistance, guidance, and liaison to Regional Offices of DHEW and to State and local agencies concerned with health resource planning in relation to technical aspects of their plans for establishing or developing information centers or libraries for the storage, retrieval and exchange of information on health resource planning, and in particular for the coc-eii.r,@ition of such pl.ans with technical. elements of the operation of CHRPI, such as classification, indexing, terminology, and related procedures." This activity of the individual proposed to be added to the CHRPI staff @,,ill be an important aspect of the technical assistance resources DCHP intends to make available to health planning agencies, i.e., guidance on a high professional level in regard to the application of information and library science in the health planting field. As we understand it, you are planning to refer the proposal for establishing this position for consideration by the IIRP Executive Committee on Monday, October 21, and accordingly have distributed to Committee members copies of our October 16 memo. I would appreciate it if you would also distribute this memo to them. Herir..an 14 turv- cc: Director, DCHP Deputy Director, DCHP H. C. Meadows F. A. 1',Iorrone