Collections Services Librarian

5 months ago

Athabasca, Canada Athabasca University Full time

Athabasca University's Library and Scholarly Resources is comprised of the Athabasca University Library and the Thomas A. Edge Archives and Special Collections. The principles upon which our work is grounded are lifelong learning, innovation and creative approaches, integration of services and resources in the curriculum, collaboration across AU and the academic library sector, inclusion, and openness.

Our priorities over the next several years include providing access to academic resources, including open access and open educational resources (OER), supporting digital literacy through collaboration with faculty, assessment of instructional resources, and advancing support for research, through the implementation of the university's research data management strategy, including the further development of services, and ensuring continued access to and preservation of AU's unique and multimodal research outputs.

**Athabasca University is seeking a motivated, skilled, and creative n experienced Collections Services Librarian for a permanent fulltime opportunity with at our University Library in Athabasca, Alberta.**

The Position:

- With responsibilities in e-resource management, acquisitions, and collection maintenance, the Collections Services Librarian:

- Ensures licensed library collections are accessible and accurately displayed across a variety of platforms.
- Supports and builds the Collections Services team's services in the areas of acquisitions, e-resource management, discovery services maintenance, cataloguing, and the integrated library system (ILS).
- Provides guidance and support with cataloguing and metadata used in the ILS and discovery services, ensuring optimized access.
- Works directly with the AUL, CS and the CS team, and with other library staff and AU community members as well as with vendors in the performance of duties.

The position reports directly to the Associate University Librarian, Collections Services (AUL,CS) and works closely with other librarians and staff.

Qualifications:

- A degree from an accredited master's level program in library and information studies is required.
- 2-5 years of experience, preferably in collections, cataloguing, or technical services in academic libraries.
- Experience with electronic resources management, including serials, is required.
- Experience with RDA, MARCEdit, and authority control is required.
- Strong negotiation skills are required.
- Demonstrated experience with Excel is required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills are required.
- Excellent problem-solving and time management skills are required.
- Understanding of remote authentication methods is required.
- Familiarity with database usage reporting tools such as Counter reports is required.
- Experience or familiarity with Innovative Interface's Sierra ILS is an asset.
- Familiarity with report building tools, including regular expressions, JSON, SQL an asset.
- Knowledge of transformative agreements a definite asset.
- Awareness of AI use in academic libraries an asset.

A detailed job description can be viewed at:Collections Services Librarian

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**What AU Offers**:
Benefits and Pension eligibility differs based on employee group and **_may_** include:

- Defined Benefits Pension Plan
- Alberta Health Care
- Extended Health Care
- Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Vacation
- Office Closure between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Discretionary Benefit Fund
- AU Course Allowance
- A Variety of Leaves (e.g., Maternity/Parental/Adoption, Compassionate Care, etc.)
- Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

Educational credentials will be verified before an offer of employment is extended. An offer of employment is conditional upon verification of educational credentials.

All educational credentials must be recognized in Canada.
- Working outside of Canada is not supported by Athabasca University. You are legally not permitted to work for Athabasca University if you are living outside of Canada._

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