Assistant or Associate Professor - Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian

Assistant or Associate Professor - Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist LibrarianResearch Partnerships, a unit within the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that provides advanced support for information and data intensive research, seeks a Research Specialist Librarian to complement and extend its current staffing in evidence synthesis, research data management, and geospatial data and programs. The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian will join with existing Libraries faculty members to create capacity to support digital scholarship, with an emphasis on the sciences, and will co-lead in the development and delivery of a focused set of research metrics services.

The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian develops instruction and consults on research projects to leverage computational approaches, including using scripting tools, databases, APIs, large language models, social network analysis, and/or text analysis. Areas of support may include data analysis, data cleaning, and data visualization, and using programming languages or applications like Tableau or Flourish. This librarian will actively participate in the field of digital scholarship, leading our department engagement with efforts like Library Carpentries and Data Carpentries.

Additionally, the Digital Scholarship Research Specialist will partner with other members of the department to help researchers and teams understand and use research metrics and other strategies to communicate the impacts of their research.

The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian joins theUNLLibraries at a time of building. We have recently launched a new strategic framework and have been hiring ambitiously for the last several years. The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian will join a cohort of new faculty members who have recently joined the Libraries. Reporting to the Chair of Research Partnerships, the Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian will actively participate in the organizational transformation of theUNLLibraries as we work to build a more equitable, accessible, and sustainable information ecosystem.

The University Libraries creates and fosters inclusive environments for teaching, learning, scholarship, creative expression, and civic engagement. The ability to find, access, evaluate, utilize, and create reliable information resources is central to higher education, the public good, and achieving equity and justice. Libraries faculty are empowered to provide an array of library services, collections, and spaces to meet the diverse needs of students, faculty, and researchers.

The Libraries is committed to providing financial and other support for faculty professional development and travel. The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian will undertake their efforts with attention to how social and structural biases and inequalities are manifest in information and data systems and in research systems.ResponsibilitiesWorking cooperatively with colleagues in Research Partnerships, Teaching Partnerships, Digital Strategies, and across theUNLLibraries, the Digital Scholarship Research Specialist Librarian will:

• Design and deliver workshops and other programming to promote data literacy (including AI literacy) and support skill development in digital scholarship tools and methods.
• Provide functional support through teaching, workshops, consultations, and small group instruction for all disciplines but with particular attention to questions and approaches in the sciences.
• Support researchers of all ranks in understanding and participating in the research lifecycle.
• Stay current with digital scholarship skill sets, technology trends, and emerging tools.
• Support theUNLLibraries in expanding into or adding capacity in additional research specialty areas, such as community/civic science, open science, data curation, or scientometrics.
• Provide guidance on the use of research metrics, identify and develop other measures of impact of research and teaching outputs, and consult on the presentation of impact evidence.
• Partner with other librarians in our sciences group to provide advanced reference consultation for information resources and grow in expertise in one or more areas of need within the agricultural and life sciences, engineering and/or physical sciences.
• Actively engage in antiracist work to develop inclusive excellence and redress systemic inequities.
• Contribute to the knowledgebase of the profession through research, publication, and professional engagement in line with a tenure-leading faculty appointment.
• Participate in library, university, and professional service activities.

Librarians in the University Libraries have faculty status. The successful candidate will be hired at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure/tenure-leading). Salary will begin at $62,500.QualificationsA vital…