Liaison Librarian

Liaison Librarian

Marvin Duchow Music Library

Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian (tenure track)

Duration: three years, with possibility of renewal
Salary: salary commensurate with experience

The Marvin Duchow Music Library (MDML) seeks a service-oriented and highly collaborative professional liaison librarian to lead a range of library and information services and collections to support teaching, learning, research, and outreach activities, with particular attention to the needs of graduate students of the Schulich School of Music.

This position is responsible for cultivating strong partnerships with academic departments, delivering specialized services in information literacy and resource discovery, and developing collections that reflect curricular and research needs. The librarian contributes to a collaborative environment and ensures that library services are responsive, inclusive, and aligned with institutional goals.

Constituted in 1965, the Marvin Duchow Music Library is one of Canada’s leading academic music libraries. Its collections of over 200,000 music scores, recordings, books, and journals are complemented by extensive online resources in various formats.

As an embedded library within the McGill Libraries system, it provides resources and services to support the performance, research, and teaching programs of the Schulich School of Music. The Library also serves the broader McGill University community, as well as academic libraries across Quebec and beyond.

For more information, please see JR0000080903