Nursing Informationist Emory University

Position Summary

Reporting to the Head of Information Services, the Nursing Informationist builds partnerships with faculty, departments, and the School of Nursing to optimize the use of information for research, education, and patient care. To this end, the informationist identifies information needs of students, faculty, and staff in the School of Nursing. In response to these needs, the informationist
1) delivers in-depth reference, research and consultation services,
2) designs and provides instruction,
3) supports university research by participating in the systematic review team,
4) creates information products, digital tools, and services to enable users to locate, organize, and use information, and
5) identifies and recommends information resources for the library collection. In support of the greater user community of the library, the Nursing Informationist participates in the reference service by responding to requests from the Information Desk and the electronic on-demand reference service.

• Responds to requests for mediated searches and in-depth reference requests using a variety of biomedical and social science databases and other specialized resources; delivers results in format appropriate for the user (focused search, saved search, descriptive report, End Note library, etc.).
• Participates in providing reference service by responding to requests from the Information Desk and the electronic on-demand reference service (Ask Us). Serves as a backup to Information Desk staff when they receive reference inquiries.
• Participates in systematic review services by designing reproducible literature searches and collaborating on data management and manuscript preparation.
• Consults with students, academic staff, and faculty through scheduled appointments to identify sources, develop research strategies, or review information management.
• Collaborates with clinical informationists to provide services to nurses and other practitioners at Emory Healthcare locations.
• Collaborates with other informationists to develop information products, digital tools, and services to facilitate on-demand use of information.

• Identifies information needs and maintains outreach to faculty, academic staff, and students in the School of Nursing. Cultivates opportunities for collaboration with individual faculty and departments within the School of Nursing.
• Using a variety of technologies, develops and delivers instruction to build information processing competencies both within the School of Nursing and among curriculum and to enable students, faculty, and academic staff to be self-sufficient in their information seeking.
• Communicates regularly with department faculty, students, and academic staff to promote library resources, services, and events.
• Contributes and maintains content for the library website and blogs to support access to and use of information.

• Maintains awareness of the curricular needs, teaching approaches, and research interests of faculty in the School of Nursing and makes recommendations to support those activities; identifies collection gaps based on requests received via reference requests, consultation, Ask Us, research meetings, and listservs.
• Reviews and selects materials from profile plan.
• Manages library collections through participating in collection development review projects such as weeding the nursing collection.
• Contributes to content discovery by creating research guides relevant to subject areas.

• Participate in professional and scholarly associations; maintain membership and accreditation; participate in meetings, conferences, and workshops;…