OCADU Job Posting: Scholarly Communications Librarian/Digital Projects Curator (One-Year Contract)

Dear ARLIS/NA Ontario members,

OCADU is currently seeking candidates for the following exciting position:

OCAD University is the proud recipient of the 2015 OCULA New Librarian Residency Award, enabling the Dorothy H. Hoover Library to offer a contract position for a librarian who has graduated between May 2013 and August 2015. The OCULA New Librarian Residency position will be the resident’s first experience working as a professional librarian. The resident will be required to provide two reports to the OCULA Council and will be an ex-officio member of the OCULA Council during their residency.

Position Summary:
Reporting to the University Librarian, the Scholarly Communications Librarian/Digital Projects Curator is responsible for planning and promoting a scholarly communications program in consultation with the Director of Research Services and other stakeholders. Utilizing the capacity of the University’s new Institutional Repository (IR) http://openresearch.ocadu.ca, the Scholarly Communications Librarian/Digital Projects Curator will support digital projects that liberate and showcase cultural assets and that preserve and openly disseminate the scholarly outputs of OCAD U graduate students, faculty and researchers.