Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies — New York, NY

Details or description

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $ 70,000 $110,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 9 months OR for 12 months) and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.

New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education / training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.

Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies

The New York University Division of Libraries is seeking a . This tenure track faculty position sits within the Libraries’ Research & Research Services subdivision and acts as the primary library liaison for students, scholars, researchers, and artists in related areas across NYU, including but not limited to the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin America and the Caribbean History Program in the Department of History, Latino Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and The Latinx Project.

NYU Libraries liaisons support a wide range of needs, including teaching and learning, research, scholarship, and the arts, by fostering relationships and building strong outreach, engagement, instruction, and consultation programs and partnerships.

This librarian contributes to the development of distinctive, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual, multi-format, and intersectional collections that serve the wide-ranging needs of faculty, students, scholars, and researchers both locally and nationally.

The ideal candidate builds on existing public and research services to facilitate standard and new modes of scholarly inquiry.

This position has a particular emphasis on being part of, and supporting, a community of scholars who work within Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies and who focus on deep engagement with feminist, queer, trans, LatCrit, Critical Indigenous, Critical Caribbean, and other anti-racist perspectives.

This liaison collaborates with NYU partners to develop programs that center and prioritize the needs of underrepresented communities.

The position works closely with colleagues across NYU Libraries, including our corps of 40+ liaison librarians serving the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and in particular with those who specialize in area and ethnic studies (e.

g., African American and Black Diaspora Studies, History, American Studies, etc.) and those who work within interdisciplinary areas where Spanish, Portuguese, Caribbean, and Indigenous languages and cultures apply.

This librarian cultivates strong partnerships with other liaisons across NYU’s global network, including colleagues at NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and global academic centers in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

This librarian is in deep cooperation with colleagues focused on teaching and learning, collection development, description, and scholarly communication.

Beyond NYU, this position strengthens collaborations with relevant academic and cultural institutions throughout the New York City region and supports the movement of scholars across a city-wide network;

represents NYU in professional consortia and associations both locally and nationally; and contributes to the development of the national collection of materials representing Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies.

Research

Faculty librarians also pursue their own active research, contributing their expertise, experiences, creative or artistic outputs, and investigations to build new knowledge and make cultural contributions.

The person in this position has wide latitude in determining their own research agenda in their chosen area(s).

NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative

NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to build a more diverse faculty community that seeks to recruit, welcome, and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism, Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good, and Urban Environments and Politics.

This particular position is part of our Transformative Humanities for All : Building and Sharing the Cultural Record cluster.

The faculty in this cluster will augment NYU Libraries’ capabilities to support academic and public knowledge production in the humanities and related disciplines at NYU and beyond.

• Positions in this cluster will contribute to NYU’s research mission by building and extending interconnected knowledge, descriptive, curatorial, preservation, and technical services to support and distribute research and inquiry that centers diverse and underrepresented voices in the humanities and performing arts;
• by ethically developing, serving, and making accessible humanistic outputs within a larger information ecosystem concerned with openness, access, and the changing face of scholarship;

and leading the Libraries’ strategic contributions to the work of the emerging field of Public Humanities. For full details about the Libraries cluster hiring initiative, see this link.