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Position Description for Technical Information Specialist (Library Science)
GS-13, for CHRPI

I. Introduction °

This position is to be located in the Center for Health Resourses Planning

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Information, Division of Comprehensive Health Planning. CHRPI is a newly
organized component of DCHP, 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, furnishing
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 information, 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:

l. 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 with 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 CHRPI operations--with
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.
MEMOR ANDUM DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION
BUREAU OF HEALTH 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,
CHRPI

We submitted to you with our memo of October 16, related to the above subject,
a preliminary dreft 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 coordinaticn of such plans 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 will
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 planning field.

As we understand it, you are planning to refer the proposal for establishing
this position for consideration by the HRP Executive Committee on Monday,
October 21, and accordingly have distributed to Committee members copies of
our Cctober 16 memo, I would appreciate it if you would also distribute this

memo to them. Mn

Herman vt Sturm
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Director, DCHP

Deputy Director, DCHP

H. C. Meadows

F. A. Morrone