Research & Instruction Librarian, Augustana College (Illinois)
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, invites applications for the position of Research & Instruction Librarian beginning August 2017. This is a professional faculty position with faculty rank and voting rights. Augustana College is a selective liberal arts college of 2,500 students, most of whom live on a wooded 115-acre campus. Rock Island, Illinois, is part of the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities along the Mississippi River, a diverse metropolitan area with 400,000 residents approximately three hours west of Chicago.
The Thomas Tredway Library at Augustana College, winner of the 2006 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, seeks a research and instruction librarian with a passion for teaching and supporting undergraduates and a commitment to the role of the library in a liberal arts education. This position includes responsibilities as library liaison to an academic division, as well as a coordinator role to be assigned according to the candidate’s interest and abilities. An academic background or active interest in languages and literature; fine and performing arts; and/or communication studies is strongly preferred. The successful candidate will be a team player who is energetic, motivated, highly organized, skillful in the use of a broad range of information resources, and can work with librarians and classroom faculty in developing new approaches to teaching and assessing information literacy.
For the complete posting, please see: http://www.augustana.net/general-information/employment/open-positions/research-and-instruction-librarian
Application Instructions:
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume or CV, the names and contact information for three references, and a one-page statement of the applicant's philosophy of librarianship to humanresources@augustana.edu no later than Friday, April 14th, 2017. Questions may be directed to assistant library director Stefanie Bluemle (stefaniebluemle@augustana.edu).
EEO Statement:
Augustana is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is Augustana College's policy to provide equal opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.