Public Services Assistant, Scholarship and Open

**Job Description**:
**About MRU**:
Founded in 1910 and located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Mount Royal University grew into a vibrant college in the 1930s and became a mid-sized university in 2009. Today, Mount Royal offers 14 bachelor degrees and 38 majors, along with a wide range of diploma and certificate options. We boast a diverse community with nearly 16,000 credit students, more than 5,500 non-credit students and about 1,700 employees.

Mount Royal is located in the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina, and the Iyarhe Nakoda. The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation.

A student-focused undergraduate university built on teaching excellence, we are known for our top-calibre programs, high-quality teaching and learning experience, robust delivery of liberal education, scholarly teaching, experiential learning and undergraduate research. Learn more at mru.ca/AcademicPlan.

**About the Library**:
Housed in the Riddell Library and Learning Centre, the University Library is an integral part of the MRU experience. The services, facilities, programming and expertise available in the Library support innovative teaching, learning, and scholarship across campus. The Library includes the Archives and Special Collections, and specialized and technology-enriched teaching and learning spaces, including information literacy classrooms, a Maker Studio, audio production rooms, and a range of visualization, simulation, and immersive spaces.

The Library values a healthy inclusive workplace, encourages a culture of innovation and teamwork, and provides support for professional development. The Library team consists of approximately 60 employees.

**About the Role**:
The PSA, Scholarship and Open Publishing provides support and assistance for MRU Library initiatives that further the university community's ongoing scholarship and research efforts, including the Library’s scholarship and scholarly dissemination initiatives. The role collaborates within the Library and with our diverse community of researchers to provide information, services and support for Open Access, Open Education, Open Data, and Undergraduate Research initiatives led by or involving the Library.

This position provides one-to-one instruction, assistance and support for Library users (students, staff, faculty) with a range of research-related tasks, skills, and knowledge to support their academic work and their information needs in-person and virtually.

The PSA Scholarship and Open Publishing provides information, user support, training and troubleshooting services on platforms and systems that support Open and Digital publishing, including the Institutional Repository, Open Journal Systems and Pressbooks platforms.

Note: This position works a Tuesday-to-Saturday schedule for the Fall and Winter semesters and transitions to a Monday-to-Friday schedule for the Spring and Summer semesters. This position is a full-time role working 35 hours per week and requires occasional evening shifts.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assists with the development, implementation, and delivery of educational, instructional, and outreach programs and materials to promote and increase awareness of digital and open publishing, including open access, open education, open data, research data management, e-publishing, author rights and copyright
- Provides support for the institutional repository including: identifying / depositing / updating materials in the Institutional Repository on behalf of users, and assisting users with the deposit process; monitoring repository traffic and relevant statistics and metrics, liaising with the IR metadata editing team in Collections & Metadata/Technical services on adding and editing metadata
- Provides information, support, and services to support open publishing at MRU Library including support for researchers and journal publishers using platforms such as OJS and Pressbooks platforms
- Provides one-on-one instruction and assistance to Library users (students, faculty and staff) in both virtual and physical environments, to assist them in meeting their information needs
- Assists users with current and emerging Library learning technologies and equipment (including computers, media equipment, printers, audio production equipment and software; and the technologies available in the Library’s Maker Studio, and Visualization and immersive spaces)
- Processes materials and equipment, including course reserves, interlibrary loans and other materials, to make items available to Library users

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- 3-4 year Bachelor’s degree
- 2 to 3 years of relevant experience.
- Library education, such as Library and Information Technology diploma or equivalent is an asset.
- Experience working with or instructing undergraduate students in academic libraries is a stro