The Digital Library Administrator of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai collaborates widely and works independently to ensure continuous access to library resources that meet the education, research, and clinical care needs of the Mount Sinai community. Primarily responsible for administering, enabling access to, and evaluating resources through our library discovery and reporting systems including Ex Libris’ Alma/Primo and LibApps, the position reports to the Associate Dean of Libraries & Information Sciences and is part of the Levy Library Leadership team.
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Position Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the four areas below.
Integrated Library Systems, Discovery Management, & Library Support Platforms:
- Serves as system administrator and technical lead for ExLibris Alma/Primo VE Integrated Library System and Springshare (including LibAnswers, LibGuides, LibCal, LibInsight, LibWizard, and others); leverages systems staff expertise in Scholarly & Research Technologies.
- Administers Alma/Primo Analytics and provides data to stakeholders.
- Uses Basic coding, API, and OAI knowledge to maximize system effectiveness and enable system integration.
- Monitors and supports system integrations and import/export jobs, runs systems jobs to support library workflows and operations; as technical liaison to service/resource providers tests and deploys upgrades, modifies configurations and overall system health; remediates or refers issues as appropriate.
- Writes status and problem reports, procedures, documentation of system processes, FAQs, and Knowledge Base articles.
E-Resource & Metadata Management:
- Serves as authority and secondary point of contact for technical and systems-related user access issues; participates in training first-level staff on troubleshooting and referral strategies, liaises between library and vendors to ensure successful resolution.
- Maintains electronic resources such as subscription collections and OpenURL management. Ensures frontlist titles promised and paid for are delivered and discoverable.
- Serves as an authority for collecting all electronic resource metrics (e.g. COUNTER statistics using SUSHI protocols when available, and citation data).
- Applies MARC and other metadata schemas, structured data, markup languages, and content standards to enhance electronic resource discovery, and for original and copy cataloging of records using MARC, RDA, AACR2, LCSH, and MeSH.
- Manages metadata integrity in Alma including record management, cataloging workflows, normalization rules, and integration or discovery import profiles.
Library Digital Strategies:
- Leads investigation and implementation of technologies and strategies to maximize interoperability and discovery of Library resources, including gathering use cases and system requirements and reviewing license terms of products under consideration.
- Contributes to planning, executing and evaluation of Digital Library and Archives integrations and User Experience projects.
- Serves as the library’s primary technical contact for authentication (OpenAthens) and cybersecurity, working closely with Digital & Technology Partners.
Unit-Wide Engagement and Professional Development:
- Advances diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for all Health System library users.
- Develops and maintains awareness of trends and best practices in collection management, library systems, discovery, electronic resource management, and emerging standards, tools, and developments such as BIBFRAME and Linked Open Data.
- Engages in lifelong learning/continuing education and professional association activities.
- Provides Ask a Librarian service coverage (chat, email, Zoom phone) as an occasional backup.
- Chairs Digital User Experience work group or other library committees or task forces.
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
- Master's degree earned from an ALA-accredited Library/Information Science program or internationally-recognized equivalent.
Experience Requirements:
- Experience with administration and management of Integrated Library Systems (ILS); Proficiency with Ex Libris Alma | Primo functionality, management, and administration strongly preferred.
- Applied knowledge of metadata & cataloging standards and e-resources management.
- Experience supporting and working in web-based content management, preferably LibGuides, and HTML/CSS editing skills to use system customization options.
- Strong customer service orientation and experience providing timely and effective technical support and troubleshooting of access-related issues.
- Proficient written and spoken communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, using excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
Salary Information: $79,720 - $119,580
Actual salaries depend on a variety of information.
Application Information
Apply now. Applications received by Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:59 p.m., eastern time will receive first consideration.
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.
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