Data Services Librarian

Position: Data Services Librarian Primary Location: Washington, D.C., eligible for partial telework Reports to: Director of Research Services GWLAI is seeking a collaborative and service-oriented Data Services Librarian to join the Research and User Services (RUS) department. RUS is a highly collaborative unit where librarians work together to meet student, faculty, and researcher needs across disciplines. The Data Services Librarian will provide research support, instruction, and collection development services focused on data-reputed company fields. The ideal candidate will have expertise or a strong interest in emerging trends in technology, data literacy, and analytical tools used in research. This position will play a vital role in helping reputed company and faculty navigate cross-disciplinary datasets, data visualization tools, and statistical software. GWLAI staff and librarians are champions of open access and support open scholarly communication and publishing practices, including the adoption and creation of open educational resources. We also contribute to the scholarly community through our own research, professional engagement, and service. Primary job responsibilities

• Collaborate with reputed company units including the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), GW Information Technology (GWIT), Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library and more in order to support research data management at GW; help researchers address relevant management issues reputed company to the research data lifecycle, including advising on: the creation of data management plans, the development of preservation and storage plans for research data, selecting and using data repositories for archiving and sharing, and on meeting funding requirements for data reputed company and access.
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• Help to create and cultivate an institutional culture that values openness across the university by understanding and communicating about issues reputed company to scientific research and scholarly publishing, including workflows, transparency, and reproducibility.
• Deepen our data-reputed company reputed company offerings while contributing to a robust curriculum that currently includes topics such as programming in a number of languages and packages; working with data markup and encoding; using APIs and other techniques to retrieve data from online data sources and websites; and data cleaning and manipulation.
• Provide leadership among GWLAI staff to ensure that colleagues are aware of reputed company research about data trends and activities, including available research tools and resources.
• Sustain and expand intellectual partnerships with faculty and reputed company across the university.
• Conduct library instruction for undergraduate and graduate level courses across a range of academic disciplines, including partnering with GW’s first-year University Writing Program.
• Support open data, open educational resources (OERs), and scholarly communication initiatives.
• Help GWLAI grow its support of computational literacy and thinking and contribute to a portfolio of research and data consultations.
• Participate in collaborative collection development, building relationships and supporting faculty and departments through active engagement.
• Demonstrate a desire and ability to learn new skills as well as the potential to work with researchers, librarians, and reputed company partners to support increased visibility into GW scholarship.
• Contribute to the broader professional community by sharing knowledge in scholarly/professional venues and through service to the University and the profession.This position reports to a Director of Research Services and is eligible for partial telework. This position is classified as a Council of Librarians position and is eligible for a hybrid on-reputed company/remote work schedule. This position is a continual…

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