Competition Number: F18473P
Position Title: Discovery Services Librarian – Limited Term (six months)
Employee Group: Faculty
Position Status: Regular Limited Term
Position Type: Librarian
Workload Amount: TBD
Department: Library
Location: North Vancouver

Located on the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), SəỈílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), shíshálh (Sechelt), and LíỈwat Nations, Capilano University is a teaching-focused university based in North Vancouver. We value curiosity and imagination; a commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenization, and decolonization; collaboration, authenticity, and belonging; health and well-being; transparency and honesty; taking sustainable actions to enable a better place for our future descendants; and doing everything we can to provide an equitable and inclusive work environment that is reflective of our community’s diversity.

The Capilano University Library is offering a limited-term opportunity for a librarian to work with colleagues to ensure reliable, user-centred discovery and delivery of Capilano University’s diverse collections. This is a leave replacement position scheduled for January 23, 2023 to August 18, 2023.

The Discovery Services Librarian will play a key role supporting and enhancing the discovery layer (EBSCO Discovery Service), including configuring new and existing e-resources, troubleshooting access problems and working with both the vendor and colleagues to resolve issues. They will also provide employee training on the discovery layer, including maintaining and distributing documentation.

The Discovery Services Librarian also works in close partnership with the Metadata Strategies Librarian and the Library Systems Analyst to coordinate the configuration, maintenance, integration, and enhancement of library systems and other technologies. The position requires an analytical and “systems thinking” mindset and flexibility.

Librarians at Capilano University are also educators, leveraging their expertise to help students and faculty become more skilled at library research. The person in this role acts as the liaison for the School of Humanities and School of Communication Studies. This includes teaching, collection development, student research support, and relationship development and consultation with faculty across these programs. All members of the librarian team also share Research Help Desk, AskAway, and other teaching duties, and the Discovery Services Librarian can expect to teach a number of research skills workshops for English 100 in an active learning environment. We welcome librarians without teaching experience to apply, as support and mentoring around teaching and liaison work is available from the librarian team.

Our Working Environment

The Discovery Services Librarian will join a team of eight faculty librarians who work within a collegial management model. All librarians participate in collective decision-making related to work within the department, attend department meetings, and participate in peer evaluation, search-hire committees, and other working groups in the Library and across campus. Librarians collaborate with the University Librarian, Library staff, and partners across campus.

This is a full-time position on a limited term from January 23 to August 18, 2023. We have a working schedule of Monday to Friday with flexible start and end times. Our work is primarily conducted on campus, with some flexibility to split work between the office and off-campus locations. Vacation time is 42 days per 8 sections of work (prorated for shorter contracts). The University offers modest competitive funding opportunities for PD and research.

Helpful Documents

Envisioning 2030 (Capilano University’s reimagined Strategic Plan)

Illuminating 2030 (Capilano University’s reimagined Academic Plan)

Capilano Faculty Association Collective Agreement (salary scale may be found on page 57; each step is equivalent to 1 year of full-time experience. See further details on pages 62-63)

Tentative Interview Dates

December 7-12

If you have a major scheduling conflict (i.e., lack of availability during the entire interview period), please feel free to alert us to this so we may do our best to find a solution that works for all if you are selected for an interview.

Submission Instructions
Please submit applications, including a cover letter and resume, at https://jobs-capilanou.peopleadmin.com/hr/postings/5208.

If there is any way we could make the application process more accessible for you, please contact Tania Alekson, Chair of the search committee, at talekson@capilanou.ca.

Required Qualifications

• MLIS or equivalent from an ALA-accredited university

Required Skills and Experience

• Ability to think systematically to analyze issues and provide solutions
• Aptitude for complex, analytical work with an attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to communicate technical information to a general audience and to interact effectively with students, faculty, and staff; outstanding service orientation and public service experience
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively in a rapidly changing and diverse campus environment
• Experience with library systems or electronic resources OR any equivalent combination of experience, training, and/or education

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience working in the systems area of an academic library, with specific experience in upgrading and supporting a discovery layer, proxy system and/or digital repository
• Experience providing reference services to students in a post-secondary environment
• Experience or training in instructional design, adult learning, or teaching

Posting Detail Information

Internal or External Position: External
Appointment Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/23/2023
Salary Scale: Faculty Scale
Post Date: 10/21/2022
Close Date: 11/20/2022
Open Until Filled
Quick Link for Posting: https://jobs-capilanou.peopleadmin.com/postings/5208