Librarian for History — 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 History

The New York University (NYU) Division of Libraries is seeking a , situated in the Libraries’ Research & Research Services subdivision.

This position works intensively with the Arts & Science Department of History and affiliated programs, with a primary emphasis on North America and Europe, as well as with NYU faculty and students who are engaged in historical work broadly defined.

This tenure-track faculty position leads our efforts to support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning in these areas by building research collections, fostering outreach, conducting instruction, and designing consultation programs.

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

The ideal candidate will build on existing public and research services to facilitate standard and new modes of scholarly inquiry, particularly those rooted in historical methods, primary-source research, and digital humanities.

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

This position works closely with colleagues across NYU Libraries, including our corps of 40+ liaison librarians serving the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

This librarian will work particularly closely with area studies liaisons who also support fields of study in the Department of History (e.

g., Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, South Asian Studies, East Asian Studies, etc.) as well as with liaisons who work within areas where historical scholarship may be undertaken, such as the digital humanities.

Beyond their fellow liaisons, the Librarian for History also will work in close collaboration with colleagues focused on teaching and learning, collection development, metadata creation, and scholarly communication and will represent NYU in professional consortia and associations locally and nationally.

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.