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Assistant or Associate Professor - Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian

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Position Information

Working Title: Assistant or Associate Professor - Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian

Department: University Libraries-0905

Requisition Number: F_250005

Posting Open Date: 01/24/2025

Application Review Date: 02/24/2025 (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date)

Posting Close Date: Open Until Filled

Description of Work

Research Partnerships, a unit within the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that provides advanced support for information and data intensive research, seeks an Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian to complement and extend its current staffing in evidence synthesis and research data management. The Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian will join with existing Libraries faculty members to enlarge our capacity for advanced review support, with an emphasis on the sciences, and will join our team of three data curators to assist in the review and curation of research data.

The Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian joins the UNL Libraries at a time of building. We have recently launched a new strategic framework, and have been hiring ambitiously for the last several years. Reporting to the Chair of Research Partnerships, the Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian will actively participate in the organizational transformation of the UNL Libraries as we work to build a more equitable, accessible, and sustainable information ecosystem.

The University Libraries creates and fosters inclusive environments for teaching, learning, scholarship, creative expression, and civic engagement. The ability to find, access, evaluate, utilize, and create reliable information resources is central to higher education, the public good, and achieving equity and justice. The Evidence Synthesis Sciences Librarian will undertake their efforts with attention to how social and structural biases and inequalities are manifest in information and data systems and in research systems.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate and contribute to evidence synthesis and advanced reviews within the department, through consultation, educational programming, and partnering with research teams.
• Partner on the design and implementation of a range of evidence synthesis efforts, including systematic reviews; identify research trends and gaps in the literature; and identify and map scholarly networks, research domains, and collaborations.
• Assist in the review and curation of datasets and code submitted to SANDY, UNL’s research data repository, and join the department’s three data curators affiliated with the Data Curation Network.
• Support the UNL Libraries in expanding into or adding capacity in additional research specialty areas, such as community/civic science, open science, research impact, or scientometrics.
• Partner with other librarians in our sciences group to provide advanced reference consultation for information resources and grow in expertise in one or more areas of need within the agricultural and life sciences, engineering, and/or physical sciences.
• Actively engage in antiracist work to develop inclusive excellence and redress systemic inequities.
• Contribute to the knowledgebase of the profession through research, publication, and professional engagement in line with a tenure-line faculty appointment.
• Participate in library, university, and professional service activities.

Librarians in the University Libraries have faculty status; the successful candidate will be hired at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure/tenure-leading). Salary will start at $62,500.

Qualifications

A vital qualification for this position is the ability and desire to grow in the knowledge and skills necessary to perform job duties with increasing excellence over time. We encourage applications from candidates who are unsure if they fully meet all qualifications. Applicants should use the cover letter to share how their particular combination of expertise, experience, and skills are relevant to the work described, addressing each of the required qualifications.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited institution (or international equivalent), or terminal degree in another discipline and relevant experience, by the time of appointment/position start.
• Experience, familiarity, knowledge, and/or expertise with methods, software, tools, and data sources relevant to evidence synthesis research.
• Familiarity with the research lifecycle, research methods, study designs and needs of researchers in the sciences broadly or within a specific science (biological, environmental, agricultural, or physical sciences), as demonstrated through significant course work, employment experience, or some combination of education and experience.
• Capacity and interest to grow in expertise in the information needs and resources in one or more disciplines within the sciences.
• Demonstrated commitment to and support for a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Strong desire and demonstrated ability to learn new tools and technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in life, environmental, agricultural, or physical sciences (highly preferred).
• Demonstrated teaching, instruction, or presentation skills and facility working with a diverse range of audiences.
• Experience in developing, conducting, and updating systematic search strategies as demonstrated by co-authorship in publications or manuscript acknowledgments.
• Experience and familiarity with documentation and reporting standards for systematic reviews (e.g., PRISMA) and review management software and tools (e.g., Covidence).
• Familiarity with data management and digital preservation practices, trends, and issues in research data at research-driven institutions.
• Experience providing services in a research library and an understanding of the mission and function of a large academic library in a research university.
• Awareness of algorithmic bias and accessibility issues in tools, outputs, and program design.

Work Location

Lincoln, NE

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Criminal History Background Check Required

How to Apply

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