[Eril-l] Job opening: Social Sciences/Scholarly Communications Librarian at Lehigh University

[Brian Simboli]

**Please excuse cross-posts**


Social Sciences/Scholarly Communications Librarian



Lehigh University seeks a dynamic candidate to partner with faculty in
experimenting with a broad range of digital scholarly publishing
opportunities. The Social Sciences/Scholarly Communications Librarian
serves as an advocate for open access to scholarship, facilitates the
growth of current faculty scholarship in the campus repository, and engages
with the national library scholarly communications community. The Librarian
provides a broad range of collection development, instruction and research
services, including data management services.


Responsibilities:



   - Provides training, documentation, and direct assistance to users
   seeking to manage rights; develops and promotes opportunities for
   publishing within the library campus repository participates in national
   programs related to repositories


   - Serves as a campus resource on new developments in the scholarly
   publishing world and on a broad array of publication metrics; develops a
   detailed knowledge of Lehigh's scholarly output and of publishing trends at
   the University
   - Serves as the lead librarian on copyright and intellectual property
   developments and issues
   - Develops, evaluates and manages information collections for curricular
   and research needs for social science disciplines; develops and delivers
   course-integrated library research instruction
   - Selects and promotes datasets of interest to faculty in social science
   disciplines, with special focus on government and international data
   - Participates in planning and creation of digital library projects in
   social science areas
   - Serves as campus expert for news and news archives databases, sources
   and delivery options.


Requirements:



   - Master's Degree in Library Science, or equivalent combination of
   education and experience, such as a CLIR fellowship
   - Academic background in the social sciences; masters degree preferred.
   - Three to five years related work experience
   - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; strong computer
   skills; familiarity with statistical software (STATA, SPSS) desirable.
   - Successful completion of standard background checks including but not
   limited to: social security verification, education verification, national
   criminal background checks, motor vehicle checks, PATCH, FBI
   fingerprinting, Child Abuse Clearance and credit history based upon the
   requirements of the position


The salary range for this position is upper $50’s to low 60’s.


Review of applications begins on September 1 and continues until the
position is filled.


To apply: please go to http://go.lehigh.edu/socialsciencelibrarian



 Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and
does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender,
gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national or ethnic
origin, race, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. Lehigh
University provides comprehensive benefits including partner benefits.

ABOUT LEHIGH UNIVERSITY


Lehigh University is a highly competitive, research-oriented, private
university located one hour north of Philadelphia and 90 minutes west of
New York City. For almost 150 years, Lehigh University has combined
outstanding academic and learning opportunities with leadership in
fostering innovative research. Lehigh’s four colleges provide graduate and
undergraduate education to approximately 7,000 students.
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