Description : The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame seeks a skilled, multilingual, collaborative, and service-oriented professional for the position of East Asian Studies and Education Librarian. Reporting to the department head for Education & Engagement, the successful candidate will serve as liaison to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, engaging in outreach, instruction, and personalized research support for faculty and students. The East Asian Studies and Education Librarian will also manage, strengthen, and expand the East Asian Studies collection in order to support Notre Dame’s growing strengths in East Asian Studies.
The East Asian Studies and Education Librarian will be a core member of the Education & Engagement department, supporting departmental initiatives, projects, and goals including developing and maintaining digital learning objects, developing and facilitating student workshops, assessing student learning outcomes, and participating in instruction for foundational undergraduate courses. The ideal candidate will enable greater research productivity, sustainable publication, and the dissemination of scholarship and data.
Education and Engagement
Professional Contributions and Institutional Service
The East Asian Studies Collection
The Hesburgh Libraries East Asian Studies collection serves the East Asian research and teaching community at Notre Dame, including faculty and students from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, which draws fellows from the Departments of History, Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Theology, Philosophy, and Film, Theatre, and Television; as well as the Peace Studies and Global Affairs programs. The collection has grown significantly over the past decade and is utilized by an active and growing faculty and student body. The Chinese collection, the largest of the East Asian collections, has relative strengths in literature, philosophy, religion, and history. There are opportunities for growth in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials and for collaboration with the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers majors, supplemental majors, and minors in Chinese and Japanese and a minor in Korean.
The mission of the Liu Institute is to provide a forum for integrated and multidisciplinary research and teaching on Asia and its diaspora. It supports innovative projects that actively combine teaching, research, and social engagement. The Liu Institute works closely with the East Asian Studies Librarian in identifying sources of funding for collection development.
Salary and Benefits
Librarians at Notre Dame are appointed as library faculty and evaluated on library service, contributions to the profession, and university and community service. Salary and rank are nationally competitive with peer Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Notre Dame offers an outstandingbenefits package . For more information, please visit theemployment page on the Hesburgh Libraries website.
Qualifications :
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Some faculty and staff at Hesburgh Libraries work remotely one or two days per week, subject to programmatic and organizational needs.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement
The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
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