Liaison Librarian

Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian (tenure track)  Duration: three years, with possibility of renewal
Salary: salary commensurate with experience
The Marvin Duchow Music Library (MDML) seeks a service-oriented and highly collaborative professional liaison librarian to lead a range of library and information services and collections to support teaching, learning, research, and outreach activities, with particular attention to the needs of graduate students of the Schulich School of Music.
This position is responsible for cultivating strong partnerships with academic departments, delivering specialized services in information literacy and resource discovery, and developing collections that reflect curricular and research needs.
The librarian contributes to a collaborative environment and ensures that library services are responsive, inclusive, and aligned with institutional goals.
Constituted in 1965, the Marvin Duchow Music Library is one of Canada’s leading academic music libraries.
Its collections of over 200,000 music scores, recordings, books, and journals are complemented by extensive online resources in various formats.
As an embedded library within the McGill Libraries system, it provides resources and services to support the performance, research, and teaching programs of the Schulich School of Music.
The Library also serves the broader McGill University community, as well as academic libraries across Quebec and beyond.
THE McGILL LIBRARIES  Located in Montréal, one of the world’s great multicultural and multilingual cities, McGill University is internationally recognized for its excellence as a leading institution of higher education and research.
For nearly 200 years, through the work of dedicated people, McGill has been breaking ground in diverse fields and contributing solutions to some of the world’s most significant issues.
McGill is also the most internationally diverse research-intensive university in Canada, with over 32% of its students coming to McGill from more than 150 countries.
The University systematically appears on the annual list of the best employers in Montreal.
The McGill University Libraries contribute to society by advancing teaching, learning, and research in a supportive and welcoming environment.
We anticipate and respond to the needs of users by providing outstanding collections, excellent services, and spaces that inspire.
We work in collaboration with global scholarly and library communities to enhance and facilitate access to knowledge.
The McGill Libraries has the largest collection in Quebec and is one of Canada’s largest academic libraries with over six million monograph titles and 150,000 e-journals and databases.
The Libraries are a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE STAFF  Information about the University and the McGill Libraries can be found on the University’s web site.
The McGill Libraries have developed Strategic Priorities for  to guide its actions.
As a tenure stream appointee, the successful candidate is expected to satisfy the requirements in the Regulations Relating to the Employment of Librarian Staff.
DUTY STATEMENT  Primary Purpose of Position The assist the provision of a range of library and information services and collections to support teaching, learning, research, and outreach activities.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Participate actively in the co-leading and development of the Marvin Duchow Music Library’s Information Literacy Program, ensuring currency,…