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If other library professionals are assigned liaison responsibility, please list their position title(s).
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Archivist, Bioinformationist: Biomedical Sciences Liaison
Chinese Studies Specialist
Curator
Director of Communications and Outreach, Director of Scholarly Technology, Executive Director of Development, Finance
Director, University Human Resources Client Partner
Diversity intern
GIS analyst: outreach for GIS and related services
Government Information Specialist. Other professionals might include our OEPs and temps, who often fill in for
liaison responsibilities.
In 2001, some catalogers and bibliographers were given liaison responsibilities. Now everyone is called a “subject
librarian” who has this role.
Instruction Librarian (formerly had not specific departmental subject liaison roles—that has since changed. But in the
initial formulation, this is one position that led to the realization that there were staff with liaison roles who were not
‘subject liaisons’. GIS Coordinator is another—also a professional position that is not a ‘librarian’ position. Head of
Access Services—another professional position, not classified as librarian. Institutional Repository Coordinator. Director
of Scholarly Communication.
Learning librarians, accessibility librarian, visualization librarian, GIS Librarian, Student Enrichment &Community
Outreach librarian, Video Game Archives librarian, instructional technology librarians, publishing outreach librarian,
Informationists (Medical librarians)
Library manager: professional staff
Other library professionals are assigned liaison responsibilities based on their functional, as opposed to subject,
expertise. One example is our Data Library Coordinator.
Polar Curator, Ohio Congressional Curator
Programs and planning department has liaison relationships. These include grants, programs, communications and
programming professionals.
The ALP has high-level library assistants who have advanced degrees in relevant subject areas, serving some of the
functions of a liaison librarian.
To be determined
Varies
We are increasingly hiring liaisons without library degrees but with deep subject knowledge. We have hired three recent
PhD students to each division—science, social science, and humanities—to liaise with faculty and students in areas of
digital humanities, data management, and other aspects of the research lifecycle.
We have an archivist who oversees the Canadian Architectural Archives, who has an MLIS.
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