Senior Electronic Resources Librarian
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We need to preserve all substantive info, no boilerplate. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some lines like "In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the US and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. This position does not support visa sponsorship for continued employment." That's legal boilerplate; we should remove it. Also "To Apply..." and application instructions should be removed. Also "Please note, all employment postings close at 11:55pm CST." remove.
We need to keep substantive content: purpose of position, duties & responsibilities (multiple bullet-like paragraphs), supervises part, improve user experience, support license review, engage in research activities, required competencies (strong communication skills, ability to collaborate, detail-oriented), minimum requirements (Master’s degree..., 2 years experience..., experience analyzing collection usage data..., successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check). Preferred qualifications list.
Also Salary/Position Classification and 40 hours per week.
We need to decide sections: About the role (purpose), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Skills (required competencies), Pay, Schedule.
We must not create sections with filler. All have content.
We need to format duties as list items. The duties are many sentences; we can break into
- each bullet. The original has headings like "Duties & Responsibilities" then paragraphs. We'll convert each sentence or logical chunk into
- . Ensure we preserve all info.
Similarly for responsibilities like "Supervises Subscription Specialist and Acquisitions Specialist" etc.
We'll need to parse the text.
Let's extract purpose: "Purpose of PositionThe Senior Electronic Resources Librarian manages acquisitions workflow strategies and activates and maintains the Chester Fritz Library’s (CFL) electronic resource holdings to make them discoverable and accessible. Electronic resource holdings include eBooks, streaming videos, journals, database subscriptions, born digital content, and other electronic collections. Maintenance of these holdings includes tracking perpetual access rights, journal publisher and publication frequency changes, and changes to electronic collections in CFL’s integrated library system, Ex Libris’s Alma/Primo. Acquisitions includes workflows for print and digital content, as well as special collections. The librarian additionally supports the user experience of CFL’s electronic collections, assisting in troubleshooting access issues, designing user experience studies, and investigating options for improving user access. This position will also support the Head of Collection Strategies around license review and tracking and the Collection Development Team through data visualization and analysis of library collections. The Senior Electronic Resources Librarian will report to the Head of Collection Strategies and supervise the Subscription and Acquisitions Specialists."
We'll put that in
under About the role.
Now Duties & Responsibilities: There are several sections:
- Ensure discovery of and access to the Library’s electronic resource holdings
- Develop procedures and workflows to make the Library’s electronic resources discoverable and accessible.
- Activate Library’s electronic collections, firm order titles such as eBooks, and digital media such as streaming videos.
- Track streaming videos used for coursework, renewing their licenses and updating their holdings as needed.
- Adds online federal government document records from the federal depository library program (FDLP) to Alma/Primo.
- Implements a workflow for born digital and open access resource acquisitions in collaboration with technical services and digitization.
- Ensure accuracy of electronic holdings, including checking changes to journal publishers and publication frequency in EBSCOnet and other publisher sources.
- Track Alma updates to address the impact of electronic collection changes.
- Collaborates with technical services staff for electronic records cataloging needs.
- Maintain records of Library’s perpetual access holdings.
- Support electronic resource accessibility in alignment with the ADA digital accessibility guidelines by communicating with vendors.
- Supervises Subscription Specialist and Acquisitions Specialist
- Meet regularly with supervisees to mentor, check-in, and provide support for staff.
- Advocate for supervisees to Head of Collection Strategies in regards to resource requests.
- Collaborate with the Head of Collection Strategies to hire, train, evaluate & make performance-related decisions.
- Manage workflow and work assignments for assigned personnel to ensure prompt and accurate selection and organization of new material and responses to patron requests.
- Manage staff responsible for firm orders and subscription invoices.
- At the direction of the Head of Collection Strategies, monitor accountability measures and statistics to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and impact of staff efforts.
- Improve the user experience and student success through the Library’s collections
- Develop and implement programs, activities and projects designed to improve the user experience in accessing electronic resources, such as setting up single sign-on options with vendors and working with LibKey implementation.
- Collaborate with the Collections Team to design and implement user experience studies to guide decisions around resource discovery and collection investments.
- Collaborate with the Systems Librarian around Alma/Primo updates and potential changes the Library may want to make to improve electronic resource discoverability and accessibility.
- Track and assess e-resources issues and follow-ups.
- In conjunction with the Head of Collection Strategies and Subscription Specialist, work with vendors, publishers, consortial partners, and the procurement office to proactively address ordering, access, payment, and performance issues.
- Play a key role in student success as part of a student affordability initiatives team led by the Open Educational Resources Librarian, including work with digital course packs.
- Work with the Stacks Maintenance Team to manage the shelving, retrieval, and delivery of physical library materials in support of the user experience.
- Stay current on emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in electronic resource management, access, and discovery to enhance library services.
- Support specific department or other specialized collections as needed.
- Provide support for license review, negotiation, and tracking at the direction of the Head of Collection Strategies
- Provide support for license review and preparation of amendments and order forms.
- Prepare materials and participates in negotiation discussions as requested.
- Implement a license tracking management, renewal, and discovery system within Alma to include ILL and course reserve license information.
- Stay current on emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in library licensing and negotiations.
- Analyze Library collection usage data to guide collection strategies.
- Collaborate with the Collection Development Team in developing reports or tools for budget analysis, value assessment and decision-making.
- Maintain usage data integrity in LibInsights.
- Compile and report usage and other relevant metrics to support licensing and subscription renewal decisions with student worker support.
- Partner with the Head of Collection Strategies and other stakeholders on data analysis and data visualization projects to make collections decisions and share success stories.
- Stay current with emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in usage statistics, data management and analysis.
- Engage in research activities and service
- Submit and create presentations for national, regional, and local events.
- Submit and publish research, case studies, and other scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and professional publications.
- Seek and accept opportunities to serve on national, regional, and local committees.
- Keep current on the latest developments in the field of academic librarianship and related areas of responsibility and interest through reading the professional literature and through electronic communication tools, such as discussion lists, blogs and other technologies and by attending training sessions and webinars on new technologies, practices, methodologies, and resources.
- Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops, or webinars, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally as appropriate.
We'll put all these as
- under a single
maybe grouped? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Could be one big list. We'll just make one
with all duty items.
Now Requirements (minimum requirements): Master’s degree from an ALA accredited program. 2 years of experience working in a library. Experience analyzing collection usage data. Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check. Also maybe "In compliance with federal law..." we removed. So list those four.
Now Qualifications (preferred qualifications): Supervisory experience. Experience working with library services platforms in managing electronic resources. Experience working in an academic or research library. Experience with data visualization. Demonstrated activity in professional library organizations.
Now Skills (required competencies): Strong communication skills. Ability to collaborate well with professional and technical staff. Detail-oriented.
Now Pay: Salary/Position Classification $60,000-$62,400+ dependent upon experience annual, Exempt. We'll put in maybe.
Schedule: 40 hours per week. Also "This position will work onsite the Grand Forks, ND campus." That's location/work arrangement; could be part of About the role? But we have Schedule section for hours; we could also include location in About the role or as a separate note. The instruction: include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. It states 40 hours per week. So we create Schedule section with that. The location could be included in About the role as prose.
We must not include boilerplate like "Exempt" maybe part of Pay. We'll include.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's craft:
About the role
... purpose paragraph ... plus mention works onsite Grand Forks, ND campus.
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- Master’s degree from an ALA accredited program.
- 2 years of experience working in a library.
- Experience analyzing collection usage data.
- Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check.
Qualifications
- Supervisory experience.
- Experience working with library services platforms in managing electronic resources.
- Experience working in an academic or research library.
- Experience with data visualization.
- Demonstrated activity in professional library organizations.
Skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate well with professional and technical staff.
- Detail-oriented.
Pay
$60,000‑$62,400+ dependent upon experience annual, Exempt.
Schedule
40 hours per week.
Check that we didn't repeat job title. Good.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "In compliance with federal law..." removed. Also removed application instructions.
Check that we preserved all substantive info: purpose includes all details. Did we include "The Senior Electronic Resources Librarian will report to the Head of Collection Strategies and supervise the Subscription and Acquisitions Specialists." Yes in purpose.
We included supervising duties under Responsibilities as separate bullet.
We included "Support electronic resource accessibility in alignment with the ADA digital accessibility guidelines by communicating with vendors." Good.
We included "Adds online federal government document records from the federal depository library program (FDLP) to Alma/Primo." Good.
We included "Implements a workflow for born digital and open access resource acquisitions in collaboration with technical services and digitization." Good.
We included "Track Alma updates to address the impact of electronic collection changes." Good.
We included "Collaborates with technical services staff for electronic
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info, no boilerplate. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some lines like "In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the US and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. This position does not support visa sponsorship for continued employment." That's legal boilerplate; we should remove it. Also "To Apply..." and application instructions should be removed. Also "Please note, all employment postings close at 11:55pm CST." remove. We need to keep substantive content: purpose of position, duties & responsibilities (multiple bullet-like paragraphs), supervises part, improve user experience, support license review, engage in research activities, required competencies (strong communication skills, ability to collaborate, detail-oriented), minimum requirements (Master’s degree..., 2 years experience..., experience analyzing collection usage data..., successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check). Preferred qualifications list. Also Salary/Position Classification and 40 hours per week. We need to decide sections: About the role (purpose), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Skills (required competencies), Pay, Schedule. We must not create sections with filler. All have content. We need to format duties as list items. The duties are many sentences; we can break into
under About the role. Now Duties & Responsibilities: There are several sections: - Ensure discovery of and access to the Library’s electronic resource holdings - Develop procedures and workflows to make the Library’s electronic resources discoverable and accessible. - Activate Library’s electronic collections, firm order titles such as eBooks, and digital media such as streaming videos. - Track streaming videos used for coursework, renewing their licenses and updating their holdings as needed. - Adds online federal government document records from the federal depository library program (FDLP) to Alma/Primo. - Implements a workflow for born digital and open access resource acquisitions in collaboration with technical services and digitization. - Ensure accuracy of electronic holdings, including checking changes to journal publishers and publication frequency in EBSCOnet and other publisher sources. - Track Alma updates to address the impact of electronic collection changes. - Collaborates with technical services staff for electronic records cataloging needs. - Maintain records of Library’s perpetual access holdings. - Support electronic resource accessibility in alignment with the ADA digital accessibility guidelines by communicating with vendors. - Supervises Subscription Specialist and Acquisitions Specialist - Meet regularly with supervisees to mentor, check-in, and provide support for staff. - Advocate for supervisees to Head of Collection Strategies in regards to resource requests. - Collaborate with the Head of Collection Strategies to hire, train, evaluate & make performance-related decisions. - Manage workflow and work assignments for assigned personnel to ensure prompt and accurate selection and organization of new material and responses to patron requests. - Manage staff responsible for firm orders and subscription invoices. - At the direction of the Head of Collection Strategies, monitor accountability measures and statistics to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and impact of staff efforts. - Improve the user experience and student success through the Library’s collections - Develop and implement programs, activities and projects designed to improve the user experience in accessing electronic resources, such as setting up single sign-on options with vendors and working with LibKey implementation. - Collaborate with the Collections Team to design and implement user experience studies to guide decisions around resource discovery and collection investments. - Collaborate with the Systems Librarian around Alma/Primo updates and potential changes the Library may want to make to improve electronic resource discoverability and accessibility. - Track and assess e-resources issues and follow-ups. - In conjunction with the Head of Collection Strategies and Subscription Specialist, work with vendors, publishers, consortial partners, and the procurement office to proactively address ordering, access, payment, and performance issues. - Play a key role in student success as part of a student affordability initiatives team led by the Open Educational Resources Librarian, including work with digital course packs. - Work with the Stacks Maintenance Team to manage the shelving, retrieval, and delivery of physical library materials in support of the user experience. - Stay current on emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in electronic resource management, access, and discovery to enhance library services. - Support specific department or other specialized collections as needed. - Provide support for license review, negotiation, and tracking at the direction of the Head of Collection Strategies - Provide support for license review and preparation of amendments and order forms. - Prepare materials and participates in negotiation discussions as requested. - Implement a license tracking management, renewal, and discovery system within Alma to include ILL and course reserve license information. - Stay current on emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in library licensing and negotiations. - Analyze Library collection usage data to guide collection strategies. - Collaborate with the Collection Development Team in developing reports or tools for budget analysis, value assessment and decision-making. - Maintain usage data integrity in LibInsights. - Compile and report usage and other relevant metrics to support licensing and subscription renewal decisions with student worker support. - Partner with the Head of Collection Strategies and other stakeholders on data analysis and data visualization projects to make collections decisions and share success stories. - Stay current with emerging trends, resources, practices, and standards in usage statistics, data management and analysis. - Engage in research activities and service - Submit and create presentations for national, regional, and local events. - Submit and publish research, case studies, and other scholarship in peer-reviewed journals and professional publications. - Seek and accept opportunities to serve on national, regional, and local committees. - Keep current on the latest developments in the field of academic librarianship and related areas of responsibility and interest through reading the professional literature and through electronic communication tools, such as discussion lists, blogs and other technologies and by attending training sessions and webinars on new technologies, practices, methodologies, and resources. - Participate in meetings, conferences, workshops, or webinars, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally as appropriate. We'll put all these as
- maybe grouped? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Could be one big list. We'll just make one
- with all duty items.
Now Requirements (minimum requirements): Master’s degree from an ALA accredited program. 2 years of experience working in a library. Experience analyzing collection usage data. Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check. Also maybe "In compliance with federal law..." we removed. So list those four.
Now Qualifications (preferred qualifications): Supervisory experience. Experience working with library services platforms in managing electronic resources. Experience working in an academic or research library. Experience with data visualization. Demonstrated activity in professional library organizations.
Now Skills (required competencies): Strong communication skills. Ability to collaborate well with professional and technical staff. Detail-oriented.
Now Pay: Salary/Position Classification $60,000-$62,400+ dependent upon experience annual, Exempt. We'll put in
- ... ...
- Master’s degree from an ALA accredited program.
- 2 years of experience working in a library.
- Experience analyzing collection usage data.
- Successful completion of a Criminal History Background Check.
- Supervisory experience.
- Experience working with library services platforms in managing electronic resources.
- Experience working in an academic or research library.
- Experience with data visualization.
- Demonstrated activity in professional library organizations.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate well with professional and technical staff.
- Detail-oriented.
maybe. Schedule: 40 hours per week. Also "This position will work onsite the Grand Forks, ND campus." That's location/work arrangement; could be part of About the role? But we have Schedule section for hours; we could also include location in About the role or as a separate note. The instruction: include Schedule section only if posting actually states them. It states 40 hours per week. So we create Schedule section with that. The location could be included in About the role as prose. We must not include boilerplate like "Exempt" maybe part of Pay. We'll include. Now output HTML fragment only. Let's craft:
About the role
... purpose paragraph ... plus mention works onsite Grand Forks, ND campus.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Qualifications
Skills
Pay
$60,000‑$62,400+ dependent upon experience annual, Exempt.
Schedule
40 hours per week.
Check that we didn't repeat job title. Good. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "In compliance with federal law..." removed. Also removed application instructions. Check that we preserved all substantive info: purpose includes all details. Did we include "The Senior Electronic Resources Librarian will report to the Head of Collection Strategies and supervise the Subscription and Acquisitions Specialists." Yes in purpose. We included supervising duties under Responsibilities as separate bullet. We included "Support electronic resource accessibility in alignment with the ADA digital accessibility guidelines by communicating with vendors." Good. We included "Adds online federal government document records from the federal depository library program (FDLP) to Alma/Primo." Good. We included "Implements a workflow for born digital and open access resource acquisitions in collaboration with technical services and digitization." Good. We included "Track Alma updates to address the impact of electronic collection changes." Good. We included "Collaborates with technical services staff for electronic