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UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
Research Services Librarian
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA LIBRARIES
Position Incumbent: Mayu Ishida
Position Title: Research Services Librarian
Department: Services to Libraries
Date: May 20, 2014
A: Role and Objectives of the Unit:
The Services to Libraries Units, Discovery &Delivery Services and Collections &External
Relations, provide support to the unit libraries, including collections management, technical
services, digital services, document delivery, circulation policy, usability/assessment, and library
systems.
B. Functions:
The Research Services Librarian is responsible for supporting the Libraries’ contribution to two
University-wide functions: scholarly communication and data management services.
Develops a strategy for the Libraries to support the data management needs of the
University of Manitoba faculty and students.
Develops a strategy for the Libraries to support the scholarly communication needs of the
University of Manitoba faculty and students.
Administers the Libraries’ Open Access Authors’ Fund.
Actively participates in library and university-wide initiatives, committees, and task forces to
develop and design sustainable infrastructure, technology and services to support research
data management, curation, and access throughout all of the research and data lifecycles
stages.
Chairs the Institutional Repository Working Group and oversees activities regarding
MSpace.
Partners with others in UML, campus units, and at other universities on research data
management and scholarly communication initiatives that support researcher needs in
evolving research and scholarly environments.
Collaborates with liaison librarians to assist faculty, graduate students, academic units, and
research centres in understanding author rights and in making their research outputs openly
accessible through MSpace or other open platforms or through support of gold open access
publishing.
Collaborates with liaison librarians to assist faculty, graduate students, academic units, and
research centres in describing, preserving and making research data available and
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