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Job Summary

Essential Functions

• Provides administrative support for collection development, including gathering usage data and circulation statistics for information resources. Communicating with vendors, creating documentation about acquisitions, and maintaining administrative account credentials.
• Assists in developing and providing reports for collection development and assessment.
• Assists in organizing usage statistics to satisfy annual and fiscal year reporting standards.
• Serves as a member of the Collection Development Group (CDG). Transcribes meeting minutes and maintains a record of documentation for CDG meetings.
• Contributes to the documentation and maintenance of information about electronic resources in a library services platform (LSP) or other electronic resources management (ERM) tools, including detailed license terms, perpetual access rights, contact information for library vendors, and other data.
• Helps with troubleshooting access problems to electronic resources, makes corrections to the knowledge base and catalog, and documents the resolution of problems in Redmine.
• Assists with managing and updating information about Auburn University’s research output, including researcher profiles, in Web of Science, Scopus, and similar research tools managed by the Libraries.
• Assists in providing reports about Auburn University’s research output using information in Web of Science, Scopus, and similar research tools managed by the Libraries.
• Special projects and other duties assigned.

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