Research Associate
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months
•Execution of information behavior research starting with participant recruitment and scheduling.
•Data gathering, quantitative and qualitative data analysis and data management, archival and storage.
•Prepare literature reviews for the related research projects and work with the primary investigator on the research reports for publication.
•Organize / assist with events held by the library in order to promote research based activities and events sponsored by CMU-Q and Qatar National Research fund.
•Prepare and publish data collected during the research process for the use of greater community.
•Provide direct technical support for clinical and patient education librarians including finalizing collections to ensure efficient acquisitions and ordering process
•Serve as frontline staff for library services within the clinical and patient education libraries by helping clinicians and library clients; especially with document retrieval and delivery.
•Participate in on-going professional development as a member of the Information Literacy Network, Gulf Region, Professional Development Committee
•Assist clinical staff with information skills training sessions and community based patient education sessions
•Work alongside systems librarian to manage electronic resources through the Millennium ERM module
Supervision of the day to day activities of the access services department and duties of
four full-time library assistants and up to four volunteers responsible for circulation,
shelving, stacks maintenance, interlibrary loan and acquisitions
* Training and supervising library assistants in their duties and other tasks, holding periodic
performance review meetings
* Developing and implementing policy and procedure with regard to user records
maintenance, user privacy and data security, equipment maintenance and security
procedures, and periodic collections inventory and stock-take
* Designing and delivering workshops on library resources and services to the student
community.
* Participating in collection development and liaising between vendors and selectors;
maintaining detailed acquisitions records and following up on exceptions
* Collection and analysis of statistical data of reference service and print collections usage.
* Conducting reference interviews and unpacking the questions and actual information need
of the patron
* Resolution of user problems and access-related challenges
* Scheduling for all public service points including circulation and reference service desks
and staff rosters
* Conducting reading sessions and group discussions for ESL students to encourage them in
improving their reading and speaking skills
* Conducting library tours and orientation sessions for internal and external audiences
* Representing the library systems’ interest at the annual Innovative Users’ Group
conference to maintain awareness of developments in access services technology and raise
issues with the use and implementation of Millennium ILS
* Employing technology such as LibGuides and Camtasia for user education
* Supervising the facility requirements of the library, managing and resolving any facilities
concerns from full space renovation down to daily maintenance issues and ensuring the
smooth running of the physical space
•Trained at the technical services department - focusing on Acquisitions.
•Collaborated with the Web Services Librarian on reviewing and entering policies and procedures of the Circulation department in the Wiki.
•Shadowed with the Reference and Public services team in various activities.
• Worked on two projects during the internship along with representing / attending departmental meetings:
*Comparative analysis of pre-PDA (Patron-Driven Selection) monograph usage (base period) with usage following introduction of PDA.
*Analysis of the citations in the most recent articles by the top 5 grant recipients at the UA in the fields of a) climate change; b) optical sciences; c) astronomy; d) plant sciences; e) MIS (management information systems) to determine which resources are not owned/access-enabled by the UA Libraries.
•Responsible for meeting the information needs of the students, faculty and staff of Primary and Junior school.
•Collections maintenance, reference services, management of facilities and user education
*Responsible for meeting the information needs of the students, faculty and staff of Primary and Junior school.
* Collections maintenance, reference services, management of facilities and user education
Cataloging of health statistics websites for a project of the Department of Health & Human Services, USA
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