<div dir="ltr">Become a part of our data curation team! We are recruiting a Public Health Sciences Librarian who will also serve on our team of data curators to support the Data Repository for the U of M (DRUM).<div><br><div><br></div><div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">University of Minnesota Health Sciences
Libraries</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Position Available</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Public Health Liaison and Data Curation
Specialist</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The University of Minnesota
Libraries invites applications for a liaison to the School of Public Health who
will also serve as a research data curation specialist<span style="color:red">.</span>
We seek applicants who are innovative and flexible, possess data management
skills, and understand public health as a broad discipline and its impact on
population health and disease prevention. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This position is a member of
the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) division of the University Libraries, which
includes include the Bio-Medical Library (</span><a href="http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/biomed"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/biomed</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">), the
Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, and the Veterinary
Medical Library. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">We are seeking an outgoing,
proactive, engaged professional who can develop collaborative relationships
with faculty, staff, and students of the School of Public Health (</span><a href="http://www.sph.umn.edu/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://www.sph.umn.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">), and
create new tools, programs, and initiatives that respond to information trends
in public health education, practice and research. In response to the
University’s Research Data Management policy (</span><a href="http://policy.umn.edu/research/researchdata"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://policy.umn.edu/research/researchdata</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">) and
recent federal mandates to make research data publicly accessible, we envision
this position supporting the management and curation of research data sets. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Responsibilities include
analyzing data sets for sensitive data, recommending best practices for
de-identification, and ensuring that metadata is applied to facilitate
discovery and re-use. Responsibilities include: forging relationships with faculty,
staff, and students of the School, consulting and collaborating on a wide range
of topics to identify their information needs and provide solutions to their
information problems; promoting new modes of scholarly communication and
recruiting institutional scholarly output for inclusion in the University
Digital Conservancy (</span><a href="http://udc.umn.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://udc.umn.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">) and the Data Repository for
the U of M (DRUM, </span><a href="http://z.umn.edu/drum"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://z.umn.edu/drum</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">); and collaborating with the
HSL Research Services Coordinator, the Libraries’ data curation specialists,
and other research/data management service providers across the University
(CTSI, CLA).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">An American Library
Association accredited Master’s degree in Library/Information Science or a
combination of an advanced degree in a related discipline (e.g., public health,
social work, sociology, psychology, etc.) and relevant experience is required,
as is familiarity with sensitive research data and an understanding of best practices
for de-identification. Working knowledge of major statistical software (SAS, R,
SPSS, STATA), an understanding of and skill in data visualization techniques, and
demonstrated understanding of scientific research processes and methods for measuring
research impact are preferred.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">For complete description and qualifications, and to apply,
to go</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><a href="http://z.umn.edu/ulib350"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">http://z.umn.edu/ulib350</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The
University of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><br></font><div><font color="#000000">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Lisa Johnston</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Research Data Management/Curation Lead </font></div><div><font color="#000000">and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br>University of Minnesota Libraries</font></div><div><font color="#000000">108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455 <br>p: 612.624.4216 F: 612.625.5583<br><a href="http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement" target="_blank">http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement</a> | <a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu" target="_blank">http://conservancy.umn.edu</a><br><br>ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240</a> </font><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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