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Fwd: Job Opportunity: Research & Instruction Librarian, full time - Menlo College Bowman Library

  • 1.  Fwd: Job Opportunity: Research & Instruction Librarian, full time - Menlo College Bowman Library

    Posted Oct 18, 2022 07:29 PM


    **Apologies for Cross-Posting**

    Greetings!

    Come join our team! 

    Check out this full time Library position at a small, private academic institution in the Bay Area of Northern California.

    Feel free to contact me directly with any questions or requests for further information.

    Research and Instruction Librarian

    Reports to: Dean of Library Services

    Position Type: Full-time, 12 months, Exempt

    Compensation: Commensurate with experience

    Position Overview

    Menlo College Bowman Library seeks a creative Research and Instruction Librarian in the social sciences, with an emphasis on business, psychology and information systems. The successful candidate will provide excellent instruction, research consultation, reference, outreach, collection development and assessment services to the Menlo College community.

    Bowman Library is particularly interested in candidates who are engaged in and excited about innovative teaching methods, using new and emerging technologies and digital scholarship. The successful candidate will be broadly focused and collaborative, building partnerships with faculty, students and other library users.

    In collaboration with other librarians, the Research and Instruction Librarian will participate in planning, creating, promoting, delivering and assessing information literacy curriculum geared toward digital natives in a residential college. This position will design digital learning objects for use in various teaching and learning mods. 

    As Bowman Library prepares to serve new graduate programs including a Masters Degree in Information Systems and a Masters Degree in Sport & Performance Psychology, the information literacy program will be adjusted to serve different levels of academic experience (lower division undergraduate, upper division, and graduate) as well as different teaching models (course-integrated, synchronous/asynchronous, flipped and traditional classroom models.)

    Responsibilities

    • Designs and develops creative, engaging research skills and information literacy curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students

    • Creates courses, modules, assessment rubrics, digital learning objects for a variety of teaching delivery modes (in person, hybrid online, synchronous/asynchronous, standalone/course-integrated)

    • Provides virtual and in-person research consultation and reference service

    • Provides orientations to the library; promotes and advocates for the library and its services

    • Develops and assesses collections in business, and other disciplines based on a candidate's interests and qualifications

    • Contributes to the profession and to Menlo College through scholarship and creative work and service

    • Other duties as assigned

    Please view the full position description on the Menlo College website to see a list of qualifications, application instructions, benefits, & more about Menlo College.

    **Thanks for passing this notice to all interested parties**
     

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    Anne Linvill, MA, MLIS
    she/her/hers
    Information Literacy Librarian
    Menlo College Bowman Library
    650-543-3829
    1000 El Camino Real, Atherton, CA 94027-4301
    I work Sunday to Thursday

    Email Us  libraryhelp@menlo.edu
    Text Us (650) 529-4499

    Menlo College resides on the traditional homelands of the Ohlone (pronounced oh-loh-nee) tribal nation. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we celebrate the public presence of Ohlone descendants who are working today to preserve and nourish their Indigenous identity.