Library Director, Thomas Tredway Library, Augustana College
www.augustana.net/employment
Thomas Tredway Library– Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, invites applications for a full-time Director of the Thomas Tredway Library beginning in July 2018 of the 2018-19 academic year. Augustana College is a selective liberal arts college of approximately 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, located about three hours west of Chicago and 45 minutes east of Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa.
A full position description with application instructions is available here: www.augustana.net/employment
The Thomas Tredway Library is a center for teaching and research, the Thomas Tredway Library advances the academic aims of Augustana College by actively promoting student learning. Librarians and staff members commit to strong liaison and instructional programs integrated into the Augustana curriculum; provide high-quality, personal interaction and research help sessions with patrons; build and maintain a strong user-focused collection to support curricular needs; and serve both the Augustana campus and larger community. Library personnel foster collegiality and cooperation while promoting respect, embracing diversity, and encouraging the pursuit of intellectual growth and excellence. The Director of the Library reports to the Provost and Dean of the College.
Winner of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award and a member of the Oberlin Group of Libraries, the Thomas Tredway Library occupies a central place in both the geography and the culture of Augustana’s primarily residential campus. The library is part of the Gerber Center for Student Life, a forward-thinking fusion of academic support services, student-life offices, and social spaces. Library staff fosters students’ holistic growth by keeping Augustana’s college-wide student learning outcomes in mind when designing everything from integrated instruction and student employment to spaces for collaboration and quiet study. The Thomas Tredway Library offers students opportunities that are unique among libraries of its size, notably a teaching-focused Special Collections, providing hands-on exploration of primary sources, and a pre-Library Science advising program, connecting students interested in careers in libraries with personalized internships, advising, and other exploratory experiences.
As we take next steps into the future with our library, we hope to nurture relationships among the various offices and entities in the Gerber Center for Student Life, capitalizing on the building’s popularity with students and the offices’ proximity to each other to develop innovative, forward-thinking programs and services to support students’ holistic growth. We also realize we must anticipate and advocate for future college archival needs, including the possible necessity of an institutional repository. We also recognize the changing needs of students’ accessibility of information and therefore desire to facilitate conversations among librarians, teaching faculty, and the Provost to explore challenges and possibilities for Augustana’s use of open educational resources (OER) as tools for teaching and learning, and to promote the value of open-access scholarly publishing.