Academic Liaison Librarian


Company:	University of Bolton
Salary:	£29,588 - £34,610
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bolton, BL3 5AB
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Aug 2026
Closing date:	2 Sept 2026

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Summary

Reporting to the Academic Librarian & Academic Skills Team Leader, you will predominantly support the School of Health & Society, but also support other academic departments as required.

As an Academic Liaison Librarian you will take an operational lead on academic and professional support, including liaison and user education, and supporting subject inquiry services, alongside generic Library support. Curate library resources primarily within professional services related programmes induction, class-sessions, tailored delivery, drop-ins.

Providing Support to all library users, including 1:1 appointments, subject guides, resource lists, referencing, external access, copyright, research, and ad-hoc projects within the Library and collaboration across the University.

Key Responsibilities:

To ensure support for library users at all levels; to have regular contact and an excellent working relationship with academics and representatives by identifying and developing efficient communication channels.

To develop academic staff engagement with resource allocation processes, online resource lists, use of Subject Guides and Discovery Services and study skills support.

To develop research support, including the provision of training sessions for research students and staff.

Identify trends in service demand from all customer contacts and to highlight/share this information with the appropriate team and/or line manager to support the Customer Service Excellence framework.

To support colleagues in The Library and wider Student Services and Experience teams to identify student engagement opportunities. Analyse data and communicate the findings to the wider management team.

To work with colleagues to drive forward service improvements and provide students with clear direction for seeking support and seamless referrals to support academic, pastoral, social and mental wellbeing.

To help coordinate the administration and delivery of Induction and pre-enrolment activities, library tours and on campus events and campaigns and provide administrative support to develop initiatives to support students.

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