Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek a dynamic, energetic, and service-oriented individual to provide library and outreach services to the School of Veterinary Medicine at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, PA. Working collaboratively with the Veterinary Librarian and others, this position will serve clinicians, clients, faculty, researchers, students, staff and administrators at New Bolton. Read more» » »
Position Type: Part-Time, 20 hours/week
Description
Provides reference services and instruction to students, faculty and others.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Provides reference assistance to students, faculty, staff and other users of the College library.
In consultation with the Library Director and the Reference/Instruction Librarian, develops and presents instruction on the use of the library to classes and individuals, which includes preparation of training materials, handouts, and computer-based instruction materials that assist in instruction and usage.
Participates in collection development activities.
Hours include nights and weekends.
Serves as librarian in charge of the facility in the absence of the library director as assigned. Read more» » »
Description
Manage, implement, and administer electronic and print healthcare information resources and research services.
Provide expedited evidence-based research in response to requests from clinicians.
Evaluate, select, budget for and negotiate existing and new information technologies and resources in line with both Clinical Quality and Patient Safety and Resource Stewardship STAR standards.
Member of multidisciplinary clinical rounding teams, system-wide practice councils and committees.
Description
TALBOT RESEARCH LIBRARY seeks full-time librarian for active, service-oriented information center serving the research, clinical and administrative staff of Fox Chase Cancer Center. The librarian will be involved in many of the library’s core operations. Specific responsibilities include: reference service, user assistance and user instruction, internet and online bibliographic database searches, assist the Director in marketing and evaluating library services and resources, provide maintenance and support for library technologies and assist in collection management. Read more» » »
Duties
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek a dynamic, service-oriented librarian to proactively provide outreach services to Penn’s biomedical research community. The position will be instrumental in assessing research needs and creating a set of services in support of the research life cycle at Penn, ranging from development of a guide to data management resources to implementing tools to enhance research collaboration (VIVO and Symplectic Elements). The broad goals of the position are to integrate the Biomedical Library into the arena of the overlapping fields of e-science, data storage and curation, bibliometrics (citation tracking and analysis), scholarly communication and research collaboration, as well as genomic and biological data, and to establish the Libraries as a clearinghouse for research resources.
Reporting to the Associate Director, Biomedical Library. The position will be a member of the Biomedical Library Information Services Team. It is based in the Biomedical Library while working closely with colleagues throughout the Penn Libraries.
Qualifications
An ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a minimum of 2 years of professional library experience in an academic library or research center or equivalent combination of education and experience; and a demonstrated interest and expertise in informatics and/or relevant scientific field.
Coursework in or equivalent knowledge and experience with metrics and statistics. Ability to work independently as well as operate within a collegial framework of faculty, staff, students and administrators to deliver desired outcomes. A self-starter with relationship building skills a must.
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