[LIS-Forum] Career Opportunity for LIS Professionals at Jio Institute

[Mg.Sreekumar at jioinstitute.edu.in]

Dear Colleagues:

Greetings from Jio Institute!

Jio Institute is a philanthropic initiative supported by Reliance Industries group (A Fortune Global 500 Company). Jio Institute envisages to be a multidisciplinary research university with global repute and play a pivotal role to leapfrog India's growth in higher education. Jio Institute has been awarded letter of intent as 'Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities' by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India in July 2018. Jio Institute endeavors to be an exemplary Indian academic institution with international repute and provide a platform for research, innovation and entrepreneurship. It aspires to establish a research ecosystem to foster collaboration in the region and prepare the next generation of leaders to significantly contribute to the advancement of Indian society.

In this context, Jio Institute intends to develop a hybrid model of digital and physical library since its inception. The library is expected to play a pivotal in knowledge creation and dissemination to a wider community of learners across the world. Jio Institute library aims to reduce the barrier of access and promote the reach of quality content to the remotest learner of the country. The objective of the Digital Library is to establish a future proof, scalable, extensible technology platform that allows Jio Institute to offer world-class library services to its members and over time to the wider public. The digital library platform has been set up predominantly adopting open source applications and tools as well as select commercial platforms for the initial years.

In this context, Jio Institute is looking for various positions for the Library including:

* Associate Director - Library Technologies, Systems & Services
. Associate Librarian - Academic Programs
. Associate Librarian - Acquisition
. Associate Librarian - Special Collections Projects
. Associate librarian - Metadata
. Technical Manager - Digital Repository and Discovery Systems
. Technical Manager - Library Systems
. Technical Manager - Operations and Services

Please click here<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yjDYz3T_1PEAVQdtn-b9Dlc70QRSzCeo> for know more about Jio Institute, Jio Digital Library initiative and detailed Job Descriptions. Interested professionals/practitioners may send their brief profile and CV to careers at jioinstitute.edu.in<mailto:careers at jioinstitute.edu.in> by 31st May 2021.

Look forward to hear from you.

With warm regards,

Sreekumar


Dr. M.G. Sreekumar
Director, Libraries
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