Assistant Librarian (Instruction)

Definition of Classification :

The Armacost Library at the University of Redlands seeks a collaborative team member to lead and innovate critical instruction and assessment across multiple organizational environments and cultures.

The University is expanding our educational reach with campuses in Marin County and most recently Burbank. The Instruction Librarian will reimagine information literacy instruction across campuses and modalities, in credit-bearing and one-shot environments.

Applicants looking to engage students, colleagues, and the campus in information literacy and the socio-political and economic dimensions of information are encouraged to apply.

The Armacost Library seeks candidates who share our commitment to welcome, teach, and support students in their learning and growth.

The Instruction Librarian will report to the Library Director and collaborate with various units at the University and with libraries across multiple campuses.

In addition to leading the Library’s instruction program, the Librarian will liaise with designated academic departments to provide instruction, collection development, scholarly communication and reference consultations.

The University of Redlands seeks to hire a cohort of faculty who can contribute to our mission as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), with strong commitments to serving Native Students, advancing an anti-racist agenda, and building an inclusive learning community for all.

We encourage applications from candidates whose teaching and research advance the outcomes of our Latinx and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students and who are committed to sustaining a community of inclusive excellence for all University of Redlands learners.

This is a non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Librarian. All faculty undergo University-wide, periodic reviews which carry expectations of research and service to the discipline and University.

Duties and Responsibilities :

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following :

• Engages with the profession and scholarship to inform critical instruction practices and collaborations with the University community including the General Education Committee, Hispanic-Serving Institution Advisory Committee, and student organizations.
• Facilitates structural connections between Library teaching goals and programmatic curricula and learning outcomes.
• Liaises with academic units to provide instruction and inform collection management, scholarly communication, and reference consultations.
• Collaborates with colleagues in the systems, scholarly communication, access services, student engagement, outreach, collections, archives and special collections areas to shape policies and practices in support of the Library’s educational mission.
• Leads the Library’s instruction program in credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing instruction and assessment across campuses and modalities.
• Facilitates peer-teaching observations and related practices to develop librarian skills in critical information literacy instruction, multi-modal pedagogies, and emerging technologies as they related to teaching and learning.
• Coordinates the creation and assessment of digital learning modules.
• Co-administers library systems, including LibGuides, LibWizard, and LibInsight, to teach and assess information literacy skills.
• Establishes and sustains ongoing service and scholarship to meet faculty expectations and advance in rank.

Qualification Guidelines

Any combination equivalent to, but not limited to, the following :

Experience / Training / Education :

Required

• Master’s degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited program (or international equivalent).
• Demonstrated commitment to creating and sustaining a diverse, just, and inclusive working and learning environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sociopolitical dynamics at play in the production, dissemination, and consumption of information and students’ agency in their own learning.
• Knowledge of pedagogy, information literacy instruction, and the American Library Association’s Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education.
• Capacity and desire to develop collaborative working relationships with colleagues and students.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and team-building skills.
• Capacity to develop and sustain an active research agenda that results in peer-reviewed artifacts.

Preferred

• Experience teaching one-shot and credit-bearing information literacy courses.
• Experience with multi-modal teaching of critical information literacy.
• Experience with instructional design, universal design, and curriculum mapping.
• Experience as a person-centered manager and project leader of change and transformation in libraries.
• Familiarity with trends in academic libraries, higher education, and educational technologies.
• Experience with institutional-level curricular development and implementation.
• Experience working in a multi-campus environment of physical and virtual learning practices.

Physical Requirements / Working Conditions :

Working Conditions :

Standard classroom / office setting. Duties performed are primarily in a classroom / office environment while sitting at a desk or computer workstation or in meetings.

At least minimal environmental controls to assure health and comfort.

Physical Demands :

• Incumbents regularly sit for long periods; walk short distances on a regular basis; may travel to various locations to attend meetings and conduct work;
• use hands and fingers to operate an electronic keyboard or other office machines; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs;
• stoop or kneel or crouch to file; speak clearly and distinctly to answer telephones and to provide information; see to read fine print and operate computer;

hear and understand voices over telephone and in person; and lift, carry and / or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.