Scholarly Communication Librarian
Qualification & Responsibility
Main Responsibility and Accountability:
1. Scholarly communication service duties

• To develop and implement a scholarly communication strategic plan;
• To maintain current knowledge of the trends and issues and awareness of changes in the scholarly communication field;
• To provide outreach to academic staff and PGR students in collaboration with Academic Liaison and Reference Librarians, and support their scholarly communication activities;
• To investigate topics of data curation and management, and provide related service;
• To develop and implement instructional courses and educational programmes to increase awareness of scholarly communication topics and themes;
• To organize and coordinate the Library’s existing scholarly communication events including Open Access Week, and designs new marketing programmes;
• To manage the institutional repository (IR) and expand its holdings in collaborate with the administrator of the IR;
• To provide copyright service to all levels of library users;
• To engage with the scholarly communities both on and off campus dynamically, and participate in scholarly communication initiatives.

2. Academic liaison and reference duties

• To serves as the primary liaison to a group of academic departments appropriate to the incumbent’s academic background;
• To deal with the requests from academic departments in regard to library affairs for their teaching and research;
• To keep both academic departments and the Library updated of the changes and progress in each side;
• To support the collection development for academic departments;
• To provide reference services to a diverse population of library users;
• To initiate and/or participate in special projects and other duties as assigned.

Position Qualification Requirement

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Library or Information Science or related discipline with subject expertise and professional library education/experience combined;
• Experience working in an academic library with a role related to scholarly communication;
• Familiarity with scholarly communication themes, topics and current trends;
• Experience providing outreach programmes and communicating with faculty and researchers;
• Knowledge of copyright and related issues;
• Flexibility and ability to work both independently and collaboratively with team members, library colleagues and other relevant groups both on and off campus;
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in both English and Chinese;
• Understanding of the nature, philosophy and operation of a joint venture research-led university.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in data curation and management;
• Experience delivering educational courses or trainings;
• Experience in one or more of the following areas of library service: collections, instructional course development, reference service, etc.