Assistant Librarian

Hong Kong Chu Hai College (香港珠海學院) is established and registered as an Approved Post Secondary College under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance (Cap 320). It has provided 70 years of quality education and excellence to the Hong Kong community and remains committed to enhancing the educational opportunities for young people in Hong Kong. Its purpose and vision is to nurture future leaders, strengthen the competitiveness of Hong Kong, and help bring about a stable, prosperous and harmonious society in a knowledge-based economic environment.

To know more about us, you are welcome to visit www.chuhai.edu.hk

Human Resources Office

Email: recruitment at chuhai.edu.hk

Assistant Librarian Kong Mou Sum Library Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operation of the Library, and lead a team of library staff to delivery related services to the College community;
• Assist the Librarian in deriving new library services and stipulating policies related to the Library according to the dynamic needs of the College community;
• Coordinating the Collection Development by overseeing the entire cycles of acquisition, including both print and electronic resources, of the Library and liaising with internal and external stakeholders;
• Coordinate the Bibliographic Metadata Service of the Library, including cataloguing coordination, bibliographic control, bulk records import, etc.;
• Overseeing the daily operation of Research Support and Scholarly Communication Services of the Library, including administering the institutional repository, validating research output records, working with IT colleagues to perform data scraping from citation index databases, monitoring open access management, etc.;
• Attend counter duties during evening and weekend shifts for providing circulation services, information services, reference services, etc.;
• Provide administrative and logistical support to the College-wide activities; and
• Any other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A master’s degree in library and information science or a related field with a minimum of 2 years of post-qualification working experience;
• Hands-on experience in using various modules of Alma would be highly advantageous;
• Strong knowledge of using IRIMS (such as Pure) and Open Access management would be recommended;
• Substantial working experience in managing course reading and book donation is advantageous;
• Working experience in academic libraries is highly preferred;
• Good communication skills and ability to work as a team as well as independently;
• Good command of English and Chinese (including Cantonese and Putonghua).

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