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Job Description
Thompson Rivers University Library seeks a usercentred Discovery Librarian to lead strategic efforts to enhance the discoverability accessibility and impact of ourdigital and physical resources. This position directly supports TRUs teaching learning and research goals byensuring seamless access to resources across synchronous asynchronous and flexible modes of delivery as well as by enhancing the discoverability and impact of TRU faculty scholarship and research data hosted on library platforms.
This role requires a flexible approach to enhance resource discoverability in a predominantly digital and subscriptionbased environment. The successful candidate will focus on bridging metadata discovery and access technologies and systems to provide an optimized user experience emphasizing holistic discoverability over traditional metadata or cataloguing.
The successful candidate will join a dedicated team of faculty librarians and the ideal candidate will champion a collaborative approach working with colleagues across the library to improve discoverability. They will have abroad skill set interests and knowledgebase and bring a pragmatic usercentred approach to their work. They will join a faculty department that supports innovation service and scholarly practice.
Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to improve discoverability and access to the librarys digital and physical collectionswith the aim of supporting teaching learning and research across delivery modalities.
- Responsible for improving the user experience for finding and accessing digital resources bydeveloping and refining systems interfaces and search functionalities in collaboration with otherlibrarians.
- Responsible for the creation maintenance and enhancement of metadata related to resource discoverability and access across library systems and services both directly and through overseeing paraprofessionals.
- Responsible for eresource troubleshooting and ensuring seamless reliable access for TRUs students faculty and staff both directly and throughoverseeing paraprofessionals.
- Collaborate with colleagues to collect and analyze data about the usage of resources and the needs of users.
- Collaborate with colleagues to test and integrate digital technologies that support user discovery and access.
- Coordinate ongoing review and revision of cataloguing and metadatapolicies aligning them with best practices standards and user needs.
- Incorporate decolonizing initiatives related to truth and reconciliation into discovery systems and practices.
- Lead efforts to improve the discoverability and impact of TRUs scholarly outputs hosted on the TRULibrarys scholarly publishing and research data management platforms.
- Responsible for the metadata processes related to the librarys Research Data Management(Borealis) and Institutional Repository (Islandora) platforms with the goal of enhancing thediscoverability and impact of TRU facultys research outputs both directly and through overseeing paraprofessionals.
- Collaborate with the Scholarly Communication Librarian and other colleagues to support publishing and sharing of TRU faculty research and data.
- Consult with researchers who have complex metadata needs when their skills and priorities align.
- Oversee staff.
- Oversee library technicians assigned to support their areas including providing training ongoingdirection support and mentorship with the goal of fostering a collaborative team.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- An MLIS or equivalent from an ALAaccredited program.
- Understanding of the resource lifecycle from acquisition to discovery to deaccession as well as with how discovery and metadata practices intersect with information literacy.
- Demonstrated experience inmetadata creation and standards (ex. MODS RDA emerging metadata frameworks).
- Demonstrated experience with discovery system management.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting eresource access issues.
- Demonstrated experience with data analysis and familiarity with tools for creating cleaning andinterpreting large datasets to inform strategic decisions and improve resource discoverability.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with colleagues across departments to support strategic goals and library values.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience managing institutional repositories scholarly publishing platforms research data sharing platforms and/or electronic resource management systems.
- Experience using MARCEdit
- Experience collaborating with and overseeing paraprofessionals.
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering an inclusive and equitable working teaching and learning environment
Employment Type
Full Time
