Data Services Librarian

Description

Come work with us at the University of California, Berkeley, where the UC
Berkeley Library is a leader and partner in creating and implementing ideas
and services that advance research, teaching, and learning.

*Description:*

The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a dynamic,
collaborative, and user-oriented colleague as the Data Services Librarian.
This position will help develop, lead, and coordinate a robust suite of
data services that serve to bolster student and faculty research through
the discovery, curation, management, analysis, preservation, and
visualization of data to meet curricular and research needs on campus.

The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and
teaching facility at one of the nation's premier public universities. A
highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a
campus community of 30,000 undergraduate students, over 11,000 graduate
students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 13 million
volumes and an acquisitions and licensing collections budget of over $18
million, the Library offers access to scholarly resources extensive
collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those
resources collections and build their related research skills.

*Responsibilities:*

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and
Information Technology, this position will coordinate, implement, assess,
provide outreach for, and enhance the Library’s data services program. The
Library’s data services program partners with UC Berkeley faculty,
researchers, and students to support the discovery, acquisition,
organization, management, and curation of data. It provides a range of
services such as advising researchers on the creation of data management
plans, helping researchers find data, data publishing, and data-related
consultations and workshops. The Data Services Librarian will work across
the libraries to advance and deliver data services that support faculty and
students engaged in data-intensive research projects. Internally, the Data
Services Librarian will collaborate in leading and providing guidance for
enhancing data skills among library staff. In collaboration with other
librarians, the position will also provide guidance and partnership to
students through data programs and other library initiatives in the Center
for Connected Learning (CCL). This position will actively collaborate with
library colleagues to promote and integrate data services and data literacy
into library instruction across multiple disciplines.