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Subject librarian responsibilities :
- Maintain effective communication between the Library and the Division of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering so as to support their information needs.
- Develop library collection, select library materials for procurement or subscription and coordinate subject resources for user research and learning.
- Provide specialised subject area research assistance and library instruction on literature searching and information skills.
Operational Responsibilities :
- Catalogue library materials in different formats to provide user efficient and accurate access using the library catalogue and NTU digital repository system (DR-NTU).
- Manage and monitor bibliographic processes to ensure timely access for users to library materials in different formats.
- Provide advice and assistance to the NTU community about metadata organisation, production and maintenance.
Work Experience :
Lena has worked several years in building construction and the oil and gas industry before joining NTU Library in October 2007.
Subject Rooms and Websites :
- Subject Room for Environmental Engineering
- Subect Library Blog for Engineering Library
Professional Interests :
- Information organisation, in particular metadata
- Management systems, in particular BMS, EMS and ERDMS
- Patent information systems
- Information literacy
Publications :
- Sam, L. C. F., Muralidharan, P., Tan, H. Y. & Goh, S. N. (2009). Digital repository at Nanyang Technological University : implementing a subject metadata scheme. In Conference proceedings : towards dynamic libraries and information services in Southeast Asian countries/Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XIV) (pp. 258-272). Hanoi, Vietnam. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6131.
- Sam, L. C. F., Muralidharan, P. (2011). Digital repository @NTU: user-centred services from re-usable subject metadata. Poster presentation in LAS Seminar 2011: Libraries for Tomorrow, Singapore.
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