Post Name Librarian
Reports to
- Vice Chancellor
Roles and Responsibilities
- To manage, organize, evaluate and disseminate information, providing support to members of academic community including students, researchers, faculty and staff.
- To facilitate and support learning by information retrieval skills within classrooms or virtual learning environments.
- To develop digital resources of learning and spend considerable time working with electronic resources, involving database management.
- To ensure collection of titles and journals (both paper and electronic) and assist researchers with literature searches using databases, printed resources and the internet.
- To participate in professional groups or networks; creating, updating and managing information resources, both electronic and printed; selecting, acquiring and cataloguing information using library and information software.
Skill Sets
- strong IT skills and familiarity with the use of databases and the internet
- assessment of resources and library users’ needs
- presentation and verbal communication skills
- subject-specific knowledge or expertise in a particular function, for example ICT resources or resource ordering
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. The ability to convey complex issues concisely and clearly when under pressure.
- Information management skills to identify, access, interrogate and store information and data effectively to deliver information requirements.
- Ability to manage a members of staff positively and effectively including through people management issues using all HR policies and procedures e.g. capability, sickness, disciplinary, organizational change etc.
Education
- PhD or Masters in Library Science
Work Experience
- 10 to 12 years in a modern education set-up.
Place of Work
- Avantika University Campus at Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh