Librarian

Thompson Rivers University; Kamloops; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

La Bibliothèque de l'Université Thompson Rivers recherche un bibliothécaire de découverte centré sur l'utilisateur pour diriger les efforts stratégiques visant à améliorer la découvrabilité et l'accessibilité des ressources. Ce poste soutient les objectifs d'enseignement et de recherche de l'Université en garantissant un accès fluide aux ressources pour les étudiants et le corps professoral. Le candidat idéal aura une forte capacité à analyser les besoins des usagers et à travailler en collaboration pour optimiser les systèmes de découverte.

Qualifications

• Expérience en création et gestion de métadonnées et systèmes de découverte.
• Compréhension des pratiques de découverte et de littératie informationnelle.
• Expérience avec la gestion de l'accès aux ressources électroniques.

Responsibilities

• Améliorer l'accès aux collections numériques et physiques de la bibliothèque.
• Développer et affiner les systèmes pour optimiser l'expérience utilisateur.
• Collaborer pour intégrer des technologies numériques soutenant la découvrabilité.

Skills

Collaboration

Analyse de données

Gestion de systèmes de découverte

Création de métadonnées

Education

MLIS ou équivalent

Tools

MARCEdit

Job description

Thompson Rivers University Library seeks a user-centred Discovery Librarian to lead strategic efforts to enhance the discoverability, accessibility, and impact of ourdigital and physical resources. This position directly supports TRU’s 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 subscription-based 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 knowledge-base and bring a pragmatic, user-centred 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 library’s 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 e-resource troubleshooting and ensuring seamless, reliable access for TRU’s 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 TRU’s scholarly outputs hosted on the TRULibrary’s scholarly publishing and research data management platforms.

Responsible for the metadata processes related to the library’s Research Data Management(Borealis) and Institutional Repository (Islandora) platforms, with the goal of enhancing thediscoverability and impact of TRU faculty’s 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications :

• An MLIS or equivalent from an ALA-accredited 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 e-resource 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