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The Health Sciences Librarian supports the university goals to be excellent in inter-disciplinary
research and graduate highly educated individuals at all degree levels. Working under the
leadership of the Research & Academic Outreach Lead position responsibilities include the
following:
providing effective delivery of instruction and consultations to students staff and
faculty
implementing instruction and co-curricular programs in the College of Health
Professions & Sciences and the Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health
engaging in academic outreach to assigned departments
contributing to programs that educate graduate students and faculty on established and
emerging practices in scholarly communication.
This position is expected to provide excellent customer service in a professional manner serve
as a resource to others and be a model representative of UWM and the Libraries. We welcome
applications from newly graduated and early career librarians

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develops curates and manages collections

• May direct the day-to-day activities of student workers

• Serves on committees to advance librarianship at the campus local and/or state and national levels

• Serves as a liaison to academic disciplines and/or other campus units providing information on collections instructional and research support and library services

• Initiates and solicits input to modify policies procedures and assessment tools to improve workflows and/or user experiences

• Serves as a resource to other librarians and staff outside of their unit on a regular basis

• Oversees day-to-day functions of one or more library operations or services

• Provides specialized services utilizing a high level of expertise on a broad range of disciplines or in a designated discipline area

• Designs develops delivers and assesses instruction in a variety of formats to faculty staff students and other patrons

• Obtains materials resolves issues and answers questions that are complex and highly specialized in nature

• Cultivates and maintains productive relationships with donors collectors vendors and professional colleagues

• Develops or coordinates specialized projects or programs

Department:User Services

Compensation:$52000 - $58000

Job Responsibilities:

• Serves as a liaison to nursing health sciences and related disciplines and/or other campus units as assigned by providing information on collections instructional and research support and library services.
• Cultivates and maintains productive relationships with health science information professional colleagues.
• Obtains materials resolves issues and answers questions that are complex and highly specialized in nature.
• Designs develops delivers and assesses instruction in a variety of formats to faculty staffstudents and other patrons.
• Provides specialized services utilizing a high level of expertise in a designated health discipline area e.g. systematic reviews literature synthesis.
• Develops or coordinates specialized projects or programs e.g. evidence-based practice tutorial.
• Serves as a resource to other librarians and staff outside of their unit on a regular basis e.g.
• Initiates and solicits input to modify policies procedures and assessment tools to improveworkflows and/or user experiences.
• Serves on committees to advance librarianship at the campus local and/or state andnational levels.
• May direct the day-to-day activities of student workers
• Partners with faculty and library acquisitions staff to develop curate and manage health science resources.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution at time of hire.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree coursework or equivalent experience in a health-related field.
• Evidence of experience conducting literature searches in health-related information sources such as PubMed CINAHL or Web of Science.
• Evidence of understanding of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for HigherEducation including Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing.
• Evidence of experience teaching evidence-based practice in an academic library setting orteaching information literacy.
• Evidence of demonstrated expert searcher skills such as those performed in support ofsystematic or other evidence synthesis reviews.

Competencies of Successful Applicants:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and interact with students and facultyengaged in health science research questions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a collaborative environment whilefostering a welcoming and respectful atmosphere.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age pregnancy disability status as a protected veteran or any other bases protected by applicable federal or State law and UW System policies. We are committed to building a workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.