Collection Development and Scholarly Communications Librarian

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please  to learn more about our locations.

The Collection Development and Scholarly Communications Librarian provides leadership for collection development, electronic resource management, scholarly communications, and research impact services in support of clinicians, researchers, faculty, staff, and trainees across Shriners Children. The position is responsible for evaluating, managing, and improving library resources and services that support pediatric specialty care, research, and education. Working collaboratively with research leadership, clinicians, investigators, educators, library colleagues, and institutional partners, this position advances access to information, supports scholarly publishing and research dissemination, and ensures library collections and services align with organizational priorities and evolving user needs.

• Lead collection development activities for library resources across all formats, with a primary focus on electronic journals, databases, e-books, clinical decision support tools, and biomedical information resources.
• Evaluate the relevance, quality, utilization, and cost-effectiveness of collections to ensure alignment with organizational goals and user needs.
• Recommend acquisitions, renewals, cancellations, and collection enhancements based on data-driven assessments and stakeholder input.
• Manage relationships with vendors, including product demonstrations, trials, pricing negotiations, and license evaluations.
• Monitor clinical, educational, and research priorities to ensure library resources effectively support patient care, learning, and research initiatives.
• Analyze usage data, cost-per-use metrics, and collection performance indicators to inform strategic decision-making and reporting.
• Support access to electronic resources through discovery platforms, knowledge bases, authentication systems, proxy services, and related library technologies.
• Assist with the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of electronic resources and library systems.
• Provide guidance on scholarly publishing, open access models, author rights, copyright compliance, Creative Commons licensing, and research dissemination strategies.
• Support investigators, clinicians, faculty, staff, and trainees in meeting public access requirements and funder compliance expectations.
• Advise researchers on enhancing publication visibility, tracking citation metrics,…