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Job Description

Reporting to the Manager, Integrated Library Systems, the Systems Librarian is responsible for leading the integration of the ILS by providing recommendations to management, leading training sessions, and executing long term systems projects/initiatives. They also provide day-to-day support for ILS and catalogue users leveraging their knowledge and expertise to inform clients, provide immediate remedies.

The incumbent performs the following duties:

• Proposes and implements new business processes for various activities performed with the ILS in response to feedback from users or management direction.
• Ensures that the Library's discovery interface is the most up to date, efficient and effective search interface possible.
• Leads analytics and statistics related initiatives, using ILS analytics module. Develops new analytics products and capabilities working with directly with stakeholders.
• Provides technical professional expertise, support and is responsible for the development and delivery of training to Library staff and other authorized users on the ILS.
• Works with the Integrated Library System Officer to improve ILS capabilities and respond to more complex issues by analyzing options and drafting recommendations based on business requirements.

Qualifications

Education:

• A master's degree in library science or an acceptable combination of education and relevant experience.

Experience:

• Experience working with an integrated library system including using administrative functions such as configurations;
• Experience in cataloguing standards and principles such as MARC21, RDA, authority control practices, and descriptive vocabularies;
• Experience using analytics products, producing reports, creating visualizations to develop data-driven reports and visualizations that support operational planning and decision-making;
• Experience providing technical support, training and advice to system users, clients and external stakeholders.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of discovery, search engines and best practices in configuration of search tools;
• Knowledge of business processes of library collections (acquisitions, cataloguing, collection management, circulation) and how they interact;
• Knowledge of integrated library systems including the administration/configuration of an ILS to improve work processes;
• Knowledge of computer concepts related to networks, codes, exchange protocols, internal database structures, and operating systems and their components, such as HTML, XML, CSS and others.

Competencies:

• Adaptability
• Client Focus
• Embracing Diversity
• Exemplifying Integrity
• Information and Knowledge Resource Management
• Quality Focus
• Attention to detail
• Teamwork
• Analytical Thinking
• Planning and Organizing

Asset Criteria:

• Experience with various IT infrastructures;
• Experience in Project Management;
• Experience in leadership of projects and/or teams;
• Knowledge of change management.

Conditions of Employment:

• A second-language evaluation (Bilingual staffing - imperative): CBC/CBC;
• A successful pre-employment security screening.

Additional Information

Please include a cover letter with your application describing how you meet the education and experience requirements of the position. Applications without a cover letter may not be considered. Please combine your cover letter and CV into a single document or upload your cover letter on the second page of the application form.

The Library of Parliament welcomes all candidates to apply and encourages applications from Indigenous persons, racialized persons, 2SLGBTQIA+ persons and persons with disabilities for this position.

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Education and experience requirements will be used to determine which candidates will be asked to participate in the next stage of the selection process.

This selection process may include a second-language evaluation, a written exam, and an interview. The interview will consist of behavioural, situational and knowledge-based questions. Candidates will be required to pass each stage in order to move to the next stage of the selection process.

Qualified candidates from this selection process may be considered for determinate or indeterminate positions at the Library of Parliament that require similar knowledge and/or competencies.

Satisfactory references and proof of education are essential conditions of appointment.

Travel and relocation expenses are the responsibility of the candidates.

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