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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
Emerging Technologies Coordinator
The Columbia University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position
of Emerging Technologies Coordinator within the Science &Engineering Libraries
division. The Emerging Technologies Coordinator will play a key role in planning and
assessing information services supporting the research, teaching, and learning needs of
the Columbia science community. The position will provide proactive, effective
technology and research support to students and faculty within the new Digital Science
Center (DSC), located within the new integrated Science Library, scheduled to open in
January 2011.
Reporting to the Director, Science &Engineering Libraries, the Emerging Technologies
Coordinator will identify, implement, and assess technologies for the division, including
those supporting data gathering and management, visualization, competitive analysis, and
other technologies emerging as critical to science and engineering research and teaching.
The Emerging Technologies Coordinator will provide training for students, faculty, and
staff on technologies supported by the DSC, including group instruction and in-person
consultations tailored to individual needs. Working closely with the Library Information
Technology Office, the position will coordinate the planning and maintenance of
equipment and software for the DSC, as well as lead the planning, promotion, and
assessment of outreach to faculty and students related to electronic resources and
bibliographic management tools. In addition, the position will participate in library-wide
service programming, including planning for next generation information discovery and
management tools, virtual reference services, and other committees and task forces as
appropriate.
The new Science Library will consolidate collections and service support for faculty and
students in Astronomy, the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Psychology.
The DSC, within the new library, will support the emerging research, teaching, and
learning needs in the science disciplines at Columbia by integrating state-of-the-art
technologies and professional, discipline-specific research consulting and support. The
DSC will include ~50 high-end workstations with large, high-resolution displays,
advanced peripherals, and discipline-specific and course-related software in both
individual and collaborative configurations. An evolving suite of mathematical analysis,
visualization, statistical, spatial data/GIS, scientific and editing software packages will
meet a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate student needs. The DSC will also
include group study spaces in various configurations, as well as two multipurpose group
consultation and presentation practice rooms, enabling both collaborative research and
the direct interaction of students, subject-specialist librarians, and technology support
staff.
Required Qualifications:
An accredited MLS or an advanced degree in a relevant subject area or an equivalent
combination of education and experience an awareness of the issues involved in
developing sustainable support for research and teaching in the sciences and/or
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