Description
The Business Specialist Librarian is a highly motivated and entrepreneurial librarian with business expertise to advise students, faculty, and Libraries staff on navigating library resources that enable them to conduct market validation, develop informed business plans, assess the competitive market landscape, discover patent information, and work with other entrepreneurial related research and business information across campus disciplines and programs. This position will empower the Drexel community with effective processes of finding, accessing, evaluating, and using information and data by providing guidance and personal assistance through the Libraries’ Information Assistance program.
The librarian will embrace design thinking concepts to develop and create learning materials, such as online tutorials, research guides, and other learning objects that support multi-disciplinary business needs and will utilize data skills and resources to support the use of business data for accessing, using, manipulating, and managing all types of data created and used for teaching and research. This position will actively embed data and information literacy competencies in Drexel curriculum learning outcomes through partnerships with faculty as part of the Libraries Curricula Support program.
The librarian will also serve as a resource for DUL administrative business expertise needs related to business case development, staff development and data management. This position will model entrepreneurial matrixed collaboration and will provide primary support for the Curricula Support and Information Assistance programs, reporting to the Manager, Curricula Support. Librarians are encouraged to participate in University activities and initiatives and are expected to contribute to the library and information profession through service, presentations, publications and/or research activities.
Required
- ALA-accredited master’s degree in library and information sciences or related fields
- Minimum of four years of relevant experience as a librarian in an information organization
- Undergraduate degree, graduate coursework, and/or professional experience in business
- Demonstrated knowledge of business information resources, tools, and scholarly trends
- Demonstrated knowledge of business pedagogy and current instructional techniques
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with strong customer service orientation and commitment to inclusiveness of diverse ideas and perspectives
- Evidence of self-motivation to address new challenges, ability to solve problems with minimal supervision and commitment to learn new knowledge and skills
- Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and trends in academic libraries and scholarly communications
- Excellent organizational skills, including time and project management
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment; able to lead as well as execute and take constructive input from multiple sources
- Demonstrated involvement and contribution to the profession through service, presentations, publications, and/or research
Preferred
- Experience working in an academic library or corporate/business setting
- Demonstrated success working within a dynamic, matrixed organization
