Research Librarian

6 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand Full time

Qualifications and

**Required Skills**:

- Honours in LIS (Library and Information Science), with 5 years’ experience in an academic or research library as an information librarian.

Knowledge and skills:

- Subject knowledge in related field
- Knowledge of systematic reviews.
- Knowledge of citation resources
- Knowledge management skills.
- Knowledge in bibliographic and authority control.
- Knowledge of anti-plagiarism software
- Knowledge of Open scholarship services
- Research process and methodology.
- Collection management skills.
- Information analysing, evaluating and organising skills.
- Information management skills.
- Searching skills
- Interviewing/reference skills
- Training and user experience skills.

**Recommendation**:

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide input and contribute to a research support advisory service to academics and postgraduate students in all aspects of scholarly communication and publication process.
Develop and manage relationships to support academics and researchers in their research assessment and (NRF) ratings.
Maintain awareness of a wide variety of research tools, methodologies, and resources appropriate for student and faculty scholarship, including but not limited to citation management, evidence synthesis, and data analysis.
Conduct reference research interviews with clients to determine their needs.
Provide library orientation, information literacy trainings.

- Contribute content to the University’s Learning Management System (i.e. provide links to tools such as Blackboard, etc.)
Develop information literacy tutorial using appropriate technologies.
Initiate the development of various teaching and learning modalities and platforms for information literacy instruction in collaboration with the manager faculty library.
Administer and manage Student Workers
Attend Faculty Board meetings and all relevant committee meetings in the Faculty.
Develop and manage relationships with academics, researchers, students and staff.
Develop relationships with academic staff, researchers and postgraduate students, and regularly schedule meetings to assess progress and address any concerns.

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