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Employment Opportunity: Library Services Coordinator, UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center

The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center is hiring a Library Services Coordinator.

RAD’s Library Services Coordinator oversees course reserves and plays a key role within the RAD team, ensuring library resources are available and discoverable to HSC patrons and community. The Library Services Coordinator performs a range of complex and specialized library tasks requiring a high-level of professional expertise, excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and a desire to work behind the scenes of an academic library. The Library Services Coordinator reports to the Division Head for RAD.

Salary: Monthly: $3,697.20 – $5,191.33

For best consideration apply by: 1/10/2025

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree; at least 4 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience performing similar tasks and job duties in an academic library.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel, such as pivot tables and complex formulas to support reporting and statistical/data analysis.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or participating in inventory or shift projects.
  • Experience preparing and processing library materials.
  • Experience using acquisition and cataloging functions in an integrated library system.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Duties include:

-Manages HSLIC’s course reserves for HSC academic programs.
-Creates mechanisms or follows procedures to gather and collect usage statistics for library eresources such as local documentation and/or SUSHI protocols and OCLC’s License Manager
-Analyzes and prepares comprehensive reports on library eresource usage, including detailed statistics at both the package and title level.
-Participates in and/or takes the lead on shelf management and other special projects, including developing and implementing project plans, objectives, workflow, and operational procedures.
-Performs administrative duties for electronic journals and databases including receiving invoices, tracking change notifications, cancellations, and ceased or new titles.
-Assists with renewal processes as directed by Resource Management Librarian.
-Oversees electronic ordering process and assists with entering other orders in library catalog as needed.
-Communicates with publishers and library vendors as needed.
-Creates or participates in the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
-Assists in troubleshooting technical or linking issues with library resources.
-Assists in updating messaging for online tools and platforms that support resource discovery and access, such as LibKey Nomad++.
-Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

For full details and to apply: UNM Careers