Digital Scholarship Librarian
University of British Columbia Job Location: British Columbia Apply By: October 30, 2021 Date Created: 09-29-2021
- Graduate degree from an accredited school of Library, Archival and Information Science.
- Education or experience in the arts, humanities or social sciences.
- Strong information and digital literacy skills.
- A proactive, user-centred vision of services and a commitment to responsive and innovative service practices.
- Familiarity with research methodologies across a variety disciplines including emerging tools and technologies relevant to the production, dissemination and reception of research.
- Experience with digital scholarship research tools and approaches (e.g., text mining, data analysis and visualization, image analysis, augmented reality), and the ability to provide research and consultation services to researchers with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Knowledge of data issues in the research/knowledge creation lifecycle.
- Experience developing and delivering instructional sessions, teaching workshops, and making presentations.
- Familiarity with bibliographic management tools in academic institutions and trends in library collections.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and develop partnerships with faculty, librarians, and others to advance digital scholarship, within and across a complex organization.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, plan and carry out projects both independently and as member of a team; flexibility, and willingness to assume a variety of assignments.
- Open to experiment with and improvise new ways of approaching processes, tasks or problems.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; models and demonstrates good communication through active listening and appreciative inquiry and open to providing and receiving timely, constructive feedback.
- Ability to recognize, respect and work effectively with individuals and groups with diverse perspectives and backgrounds; takes initiative in learning about language and issues relating to equity and diversity.
- Experience developing a multifaceted program for a multidisciplinary constituency.
- An academic background or related experience in digital scholarship.
- Programming or scripting experience for digital scholarship.
- Experience with writing grant proposals.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change.
- Experience supervising staff.
- Provide expertise to scholars and students across disciplines on digital techniques and tools that will advance their research and the Library’s contributions to faculty and student research projects that are partially enabled by or completely reliant on digital methods.
- Serve as a strategist and resource person for the Library on trends in the digital scholarship across disciplines. Provide support and regular training programs for the Library staff focused on digital scholarship tools, methods, and trends.
- Work closely with colleagues in the Library to support digital scholarship related topics such as open scholarship, open access, open science, digital researcher identifiers, or impact metrics for non-traditional scholarship.
- Provide training to students and faculty in digital scholarship topics, tools, and approaches through workshops, small-group sessions, and embedded project support.
- Support digital scholarship projects where appropriate as an embedded consultant. Focus on supporting students and researchers with training for specific tools and methods used by the project. Support for project planning including advice on technical infrastructure decisions, tool selection, articulation of project work for grants and job descriptions, and best practices in digital project management.
- Coordinate and disseminate information about digital scholarship on campus and connect scholars across disciplines to facilitate interdisciplinarity.
- Identify and evaluate current and emerging digital tools and methodologies that support the interdisciplinary work of digital scholarship.
- Develop strategies for collaboration, program planning, and support for interdisciplinary digital projects.
- Conduct environmental scans of digital scholarship in UBC departments in conjunction with subject librarians and specialists to identify current and emerging scholarly projects for which digital tools and methodologies are appropriate.
- Provide support and advice to library branches as the need arises, in order to develop strategies focused on scholars’ digital production and curation needs.
- Assist in special projects and the development of collection policies that pertain to digital scholarship needs.
- Support decision making around software licensing for Digital Scholarship Lab and virtual lab infrastructure in alignment with needs of digital scholars.
- Provide input on collection development around resources that directly support digital scholarship work (eg. for text and data mining).
- Initiate and participate in needs assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation for the provision of services in areas of responsibility, and for the Library; consult with Assessment Librarian to undertake this work and engage in evidence-based decision-making.
- Plan and implement services for users, or other activities as assigned, which may include supervision of staff and/or student employees.
- Participate in University, Library and campus planning activities, committees and task forces as appropriate.
- Participate in relevant conferences and meetings and make presentations where appropriate.
- Undertake, or assist with, special projects or other temporary assignments as required.
- Remain current with research developments and literature in the areas of specialization through scanning of journal and other professional literature, monitoring of electronic sources, and engagement with scholars.
- Maintain expertise in electronic information resources and technologies.
- Keep current with changing professional expectations, services requirements, and developments in academic libraries.