Library Manager
American University in the Emirates
Total years of experience :13 years, 2 Months
• Spearhead the development and execution of the AUE library's long-term strategic plan, aligning it with the university's academic goals and vision. Provide visionary leadership to a team of librarians and support staff, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Oversee the acquisition, cataloging, and maintenance of a diverse collection of print and digital resources, ensuring their relevance to the university's curriculum. Collaborate with faculty and academic departments to identify and procure materials that support research and coursework.
• Coordinate library services to meet the research and information needs of students, faculty, and staff. Implement user-friendly systems and technologies to enhance access to library resources, including online databases and e-books.
• Develop and implement outreach programs to promote library services, workshops, and events, fostering a culture of active engagement among the university community. Collaborate with instructors to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, equipping students with essential research skills.
• Manage the library's budget efficiently, allocating resources for acquisitions, technology upgrades, and staff development. Negotiate vendor contracts and partnerships to optimize resource availability and cost-effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain library policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of service and compliance with accreditation requirements. Conduct regular assessments and surveys to gather user feedback and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and train library staff, fostering professional growth and ensuring a knowledgeable and customer-focused team. Stay abreast of emerging library trends and technologies, providing staff with opportunities for skill development.
• Collaborate with other university departments, local and international MoU with libraries, and consortia to expand access to resources and enhance library services.
• Prepare and present regular reports on library operations, usage statistics, and strategic initiatives to university leadership and stakeholders
• Provided supervisory and support services to staff and developed and maintained library budget, reports, and statistical data related to library operations.
• Facilitator and trainer of Information Literacy, Endnote, Turnitin, and other research databases for the students and academic staff
• Draft, implement, and maintaine library policies, services, and programs also installed, used, and maintained library automation systems and online reference tools.
• Acquired cataloged, and maintained faculty publications, media material and evaluated, select and procure library resources in all formats, prepared LibGuides and self-learning tools.
• Delivered reference services to patrons and assisted them in locating appropriate resources and instructed and assisted library users in the use of library research tools, systems and resources.
• Develop, implement and promote bibliographic maintenance standards and library automation policies
Head of the Reference department of Nazarbayev University library. Conducting Information Literacy and library training session for student and staff.
• Serve as a Subject Librarian to a group of academic departments in School of Science and Humanities with responsibilities for delivering a program of instruction, consultation, and research support services.
• Liaison with faculty and administrators concerning future academic directions, programmatic needs, and changes in course offerings that may impact how the Library supports the department/program.
• Provides reference, readers' advisory, and referral services to patrons, in person and Online; provides technical/reference support to staff; performs manual and automated bibliographic searches.
• Plans and prepares bibliographies; performs routines and procedures related to manual and automated interlibrary loans and other referral services; maintains familiarity with the collection, recommends materials to be added, using standard library selection tools
• Supervises Reference Assistants and other personnel as assigned in the absence of the Library Director and Assistant Library Director; assists in planning and implementing programs and public relations activities; explains basic library functions, services and resources to the public.
• Participate in in-person and Ask-A- Librarian chat reference services and collects data for statistical analysis and reports.
• Devolve LibGuides for patrons to help in their research and assistance to get resources from NU library portal and build collections in all formats that support research and curricular needs.
• Work closely with a team of librarians on designing library orientation program, library workshops, assessment and other Information Literacy activities.
• Develop responsive outreach and other information services; and take a leadership role on projects and initiatives as appropriate.
• Participate in library and system-wide committees, and professional activities outside of the university
Assist in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the Library’s overall program of services, including budgets, use of personnel, space, etc., and draft policies, procedures and other necessary documents for review and consideration and all aspects of personnel management within the Library, including doing staff performance reviews and appraisals,
Provide professional and managerial support to members of the Faculty Members, Staff, Student and work with the University Library Team in establishing and achieving goals and objectives for the Library.
Make recommendations to other librarians, staff, students and coordinating resource trials Develop and implement training for staff and students in order to increase skills and/or take on Information Literacy, Referencing, Plagiarism, E Database, etc .
Manage and oversee the Library’s collection budget and accounting functions to ensure that the library meet University and government audit standards.
Initiate and be responsible for project proposals and grant funding applications; handle or oversee large‐scale, on‐going projects; act as liaison between the Library and community groups.
Carry out research and publication works in the field of expertise of the position holder, and mentor junior staff in research and publication.
Teaching and Programme Development, including research, preparing and designing of programmes and courses; teaching a number of courses/units in the academic programmes, administering the courses/units taught; participation in the complete administration of the courses/units/programmes; and student counseling and guidance.
Library Automation Software, Utility Package and Database:
(Sirsi Dynix Horizon Information Portal 7.5), (Turnitin for Plagiarism, Refworks Flow from Proquest Datbase for Referencing), (Citation Tools Knightcite, Citation Machine, BibMe), (E Database Management), (Bibliographical Service) and (Archival Management)
Automation of the library with LS-Ease, Newspapers Content Alert, Maintain circulation work, Classification, Book Acquisition, Maintain Membership Record, Periodical and Journals record.
Automation of the library with LS-Ease, Digitalization of the documents with the help of Greenstone Digital Library Software, Maintained Maintain circulation work, Classification, Book Acquisition, Maintain Membership Record, Periodical and Journals record.
Hold Post graduate degree in Library and Information Science from Aligarh Muslim University, India (A QS World, BRICS and Times Higher Education ranked University).
Hold bachelor degree in Library and Information Science from Aligarh Muslim University, India (A QS World, BRICS and Times Higher Education ranked University).
Hold Bachelor degree inSociology from Aligarh Muslim University, India (A QS World, BRICS and Times Higher Education ranked University).
