Librarian Position – Oakland,CA
General Information: The John A. Graziano Library at Samuel Merritt University seeks an energetic, innovative, service-oriented individual for the position of learning center librarian at its Sacramento Regional Learning Center. The John A. Graziano Library is an academic research library serving the schools and departments of nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant, and podiatric medicine.
The library has a strong emphasis on providing access to a wide variety of electronic information resources, and educating faculty, students, and staff through course-integrated instruction, face to face research assistance, and online tutorials. The library contains more than 40,000 volumes and receives more than 130 current print journals and more than 1,800 current electronic journals. Users include medical, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy undergraduate and graduate students, 129 full-time faculty, and a large number of other health professionals. The library staff of 8.55 FTE includes 6 librarians/professionals. For additional information, see the library’s web pages at http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/library.
Job Summary:
Primary responsibility for providing and promoting library services to students and faculty at the learning center campuses. Responsible for providing information literacy and electronic database training for nursing students and faculty. Collaborates with learning center faculty and library staff to continuously evaluate and improve library services. Librarian will be based in one of the learning center locations.
Skills and Abilities:
• Knowledge of the health science literature, especially in the field of nursing
• Skill in searching electronic information sources
• Ability to download, manipulate and disseminate the results of database searches
• Familiarity with RefWorks and other bibliographic citation tools
• Familiarity with MeSH, CINAHL, PubMed and NLM classification systems
• Ability to teach in a classroom setting as well as to small groups
• Ability to use software programs such as the Microsoft Office Suite to create effective documents, tables, graphs, bibliographies and instructional materials
• Experience in training people of diverse backgrounds and skill levels
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, students, faculty and staff
• Ability to explain complex concepts using the English language
• Some familiarity with AACR2 cataloging rules desirable
• Ability to function independently and use good professional judgment
Education and/or Experience
• MLS or MLIS from an accredited program or a minimum of two years of professional-level experience in a health sciences library
• Two years of experience in an academic or health sciences library
