Data Services Librarian

State; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston College Libraries seeks a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). The role collaborates across the DSG, Libraries, and campus to grow data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, and training services for faculty and students.

The successful candidate will provide data skills instruction, data consultations, and one-on-one and classroom engagement with undergraduates and graduates, including economics and business audiences, with strong communication

Qualifications

• Master's in Library and Information Science or related data-intensive field.
• Demonstrated experience in providing data skills training and classroom instruction.
• Experience in research support for students and faculty through data consultations and curation, management, cleaning, and mining services.

Responsibilities

• Consult on faculty and student data-driven projects.
• Provide data skills instruction and training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools.
• Engage one-on-one and in classrooms with undergraduate and graduate students to build data capabilities.
• Collaborate with DSG head and colleagues to grow data services across the BC community.

Skills

Data skills training

Research support

Data manipulation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Excellent written and oral communica

Python or R coding

Education

Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or related data-intensive field

Tools

WRDS

GIS software

Job description

Data Services Librarian, Boston College Libraries (Boston)

Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving initiatives, providing current services, and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning. This position is highly collaborative within the DSG, throughout the Libraries, particularly in the cohort (which consists of the DSG, instruction team, and subject liaisons), and across campus.
The Data Services Librarian is primarily responsible for DSG collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills instruction and training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools in person and through curriculum resource development, e.g., module and online resource creation. These responsibilities are heavily front-facing and involve a significant amount of one-on-one and classroom engagement with undergraduate and graduate students.
A large component of this position will involve working closely with a fellow Data Services Librarian and the DSG head on endeavors to grow existing data services and find new ways for the BC community to critically engage with data. It is important that the person in this role is comfortable working across disciplines with a range of data types, including economic and business-related data, which is in high demand from our Economics and Carroll School of Management students. It is also important that the person in this position is comfortable with relationship building and public communication, as everyone in the department contributes to outreach.

Boston College can not offer sponsorship for this position

Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $82,100 to $102,650; salary commensurate with relevant experience.

Qualifications

A master’s degree in Library and Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field, plus 2-3 years of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience in
• Providing data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.);
• Providing research support for students and faculty through data consultations and curation, management, cleaning, and mining services;
• Working with numeric data in academic, scientific, or corporate environments
• The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines, including economics and business, and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty and staff
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred

• Experience working in academic libraries;
• Experience working with big data, survey microdata, text data, or similarly complex data;
• Experience working with library data resources, data subscription platforms (like WRDS), and publicly available data (like FRED)
• Demonstrated experience in
• Data visualization and communication;
• Data cleaning, creation, and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R;
• Geospatial data and GIS technologies;