What are the responsibilities and job description for the RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIBRARIAN, HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION position at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley?
Number of Vacancies
1
Location
Edinburg, Texas
Department
School of Medicine / Education and Academic Affairs
FTE
1.0
FLSA
Exempt
Scope of Job
Under general supervision, this position facilitates the integration of library resources and services into the health education curriculum where they will be most effective; provides reference assistance and library use instruction to students, faculty, and other library users.
Description of Duties
- Participates in developing, conducting and evaluating the library education programs for students, residents, faculty and staff in health and medical education. Oversees the scheduling of instructional programs.
- Works with faculty to integrate information retrieval skills and evidence-based practice into the curriculum. Develops curriculum integrated instruction, assignments, and course materials.
- Tracks required and recommended textbooks and educational resources used in the undergraduate health and medical education curriculum; makes educational resource recommendations to faculty; advises faculty on how to best integrate library resources into the curriculum.
- Develops educational materials, including web-based library guides, online tutorials, and educational handouts.
- Develops and provides orientation sessions, seminars, consultations and library-sponsored workshops in various formats including in-person, web conferencing, online tutorials, and course management systems such as Blackboard.
- Provides service to library users by responding to directional, reference, informational and in-depth requests for information on specific topics. Helps library users formulate a search strategy and locate specific library materials. Formulates and performs mediated computer database searches on library databases.
- Participates in library outreach activities including health fairs, community education classes, and other special events related to the dissemination of quality health information.
- Participates in library collection development. Makes recommendations on books, electronic resources, journals, software tools, and emerging technologies to be added to the library collection to support education, research, outreach, and patient care.
- Manages the development and production of promotional and educational materials, including web-based resource pages, blogs, RSS feeds, tip-sheets and handouts. Reports on educational activities for library reports and publications.
- Assists with the development and implementation of strategic plans, shares information, participates in evaluation of library services and problem solving, and plans future activities.
- Maintains current knowledge of the technology trends and issues in health and medical education, scholarly communication, research practice, and health care.
- Performs a variety of technical and professional librarian duties of moderate to complex difficulty including providing information, instruction, and assistance to students, staff and faculty; providing information concerning location and content of collection; performing reference and research advisory services; performing collection management within assigned area.
- Attends faculty and student research seminars, department wide conferences, and university symposia to keep abreast of current research. Serves on university and library committees as appropriate.
- Maintains knowledge and skills necessary for the position through professional development and continuing education opportunities both locally and beyond. Participates in scholarly societies, attends academic conferences, and represents the library in relevant committees and academic activities.
- Develops methods for accomplishing major goals and reports results as appropriate.
- Defines and manages priorities, procedures and workflow of library section or team.
- Advises others on issues which affect the area of specialization or which may have a major impact on the work unit.
- Prepares detailed work plan and periodically prioritizes and prepares for daily activities.
- Responsible for planning, providing, coordinating, and/or controlling specialized services including long-term planning of an operation, project, or service.
- May plan, schedule and present generalized programs.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervision Received
General supervision from assigned supervisor.
Supervision Given
Direct supervision of assigned staff.
Required Education
Master’s degree in Library Science from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited library school.
Preferred Education
Bachelor’s degree in a science or health sciences discipline.
Licenses/Certifications
None.
Required Experience
Two (2) years of experience in an academic library environment with increasingly responsible work assignments.
Preferred Experience
Experience in an academic medical library or clinical environment; teaching experience; experience with health sciences database searching.
Equipment
Use of standard office equipment. Knowledge of library specific software.
Working Conditions
Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend work is required. Position will report to Edinburg and Harlingen locations as needed.
Other
Successful organization, communication and interpersonal skills; detail oriented; strong service orientation and commitment to profession. Ability to multitask and manage detail; strong oral and written communication skills; strong critical thinking skills.
Physical Capabilities
N/A
Employment Category
Full-Time
Minimum Salary
Commensurate with Experience
Posted Salary
Commensurate with Experience
Position Available Date
04/21/2025
Grant Funded Position
No
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Posting Detail Information
EEO Statement
It is the policy of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to promote and ensure equal employment opportunities for all individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or protected veteran status. In accordance with the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, our University is committed to comply with all government requirements and ensures non-discrimination in its education programs and activities, including employment. We encourage women, minorities and differently abled persons to apply for employment positions of interest.
Special Instructions to Applicants
Dear Applicant, Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following: *Date of Birth *Gender *Ethnicity/Race Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956) 665-2451 and/or careers@utrgv.edu.
Additional Information
UTRGV is a distributed location institution and working location is subject to change based on need.
All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the VP of HR & Talent Development .
All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the VP of HR & Talent Development .
