Associate Librarian

About the position Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. The Associate Librarian assists the director in the operation of the library of the Medical Center and provides educational programs and appropriate information services to the Medical Center's staff, resident/students and to the community. This is a hybrid position - 1 d ay remote at home

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver responsive, customer-oriented information services.
• Perform effective reference interviews, allowing users to state their queries, and responding with appropriate questions to clarify users' information needs.
• Identify users' preferences for results.
• Answers reference questions received by phone or in person for immediate information and, after utilizing the library's resources, contacts other libraries, associations, etc. to provide information.
• Perform in-depth expert literature searches and other research using all appropriate resources to indentify, analyze and filter information responsive to customer needs.
• Work with patients, families and community members to identify an information needs and ascertain customer learning preferences, remaining sensitive to individual needs for privacy and remaining impartial and nonjudgmental in all interactions.
• Develop relationships across the organization in order to develop effective information and knowledge solutions and/or improve resource usage and service effectiveness.
• Continuously evaluate the use of emerging and existing technologies to enhance library services.
• Make recommendations to change, re-design, interpret, or develop knowledge-based information, policies, services, programs, approaches, and/or analysis methods.
• Collaborate in the development, implementation and revision of library policies and procedures.
• Participate in local and regional library networks to extend the expertise and materials available in a cost effective manner.
• Participates in collection development selecting, cataloging, processing and weeding materials using accepted library standards.
• Provides literature searches using a variety of databases and internet resources for physicians, medical center employees, those in educational programs sponsored by the medical center and consumers.
• Research, evaluate, compare, select, customize and implement online resources and tools for the use of hospital personnel.
• Assure consistent, reliable online access to networked electronic resources; troubleshoot and solve access problems.
• Ensure compliance with copyright, licenses, and other legal or contractual commitments.
• Assess continued relevance of resources by applying professional criteria and analysis of usage and circulation statistics, user studies and customer feedback.
• Investigate, evaluate and incorporate emerging information technologies into library services as appropriate.
• Research, select, customize, implement and upgrade automated systems and applications for library staff.
• Provide, maintain, customize and upgrade appropriate hardware and software for in-library patron use.
• Collaborate on developing usage metrics that effectively and accurately measure resource use and effectiveness.
• Educate patrons in the use of library resources and tools through direct assistance, consultation, creations of instructional materials, design and delivery of educational events, presentations and orientations.
• Provide guidance to individuals and groups on issues relating to organization of information and use of information resources.
• Instruct library users in the use of electronic information resources.
• Participates in the training of the library's non-professional staff.
• Develop and carry out plans to continuously promote information resources and knowledge services across the organization.
• Represent the Library at internal and external meetings.
• Work with other departments or staff on mutually beneficial projects.
• Serve on Medical Center committees.
• Adheres to the standards identified in the Medical Center's Organizational Competencies.

Requirements

• MLS, MLIS or equivalent degree.
• Knowledge of database searching for health sciences.
• Computer literacy in library automation and Microsoft Office applications.
• Teaching and presentation skills.
• Experience in interpreting information needs of others.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work independently, set priorities, multitask, and display strong personal initiative.

Nice-to-haves

• Membership in the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
• Advanced knowledge of, and experience with, current resources, vocabularies and research techniques in the biomedical sciences, including Evidence-Based Practice tenets and teaching methodologies.
• Knowledge of MeSH, the National Library of Medicine classification system and other library standards.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.

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