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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT September 2008 University of California, Berkeley Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian
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The University of California, Berkeley seeks an energetic, creative, and user-oriented instruction librarian to envision, design and implement innovative programming for and marketing to first-year and incoming transfer students. Working collaboratively with library staff and other campus partners, the Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian will initiate and coordinate services focused on engaging and supporting lower-division undergraduates and other students new to campus. Through traditional in-library encounters and creative outreach methods (such as residence hall visits, social networking forums, and in-library/online exhibit development), this librarian will promote the resources and the services of the library, working towards developing research proficiencies in the undergraduate student population. This librarian will also actively contribute to the planning, development and provision of instruction and reference services.
The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and teaching facility at one of the nation’s premiere public universities that serves 23,000 undergraduate students, 9,000 graduate students, and 15,000 faculty members. The Library is composed of approximately 20 libraries, including the Doe/Moffitt Libraries. The Doe Library serves as the research library for most of the humanities, social sciences and area studies departments; the Moffitt Library is the central hub for programming and collections for undergraduates and will strengthen this role as it undergoes a major renovation during the next five years. Discover more about the Library through our virtual front door at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu and http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff.
The Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian will join the Doe/Moffitt Instructional Services department and collaborate with staff from across the UC Berkeley Library. The Instructional Services department is housed within the Moffitt Library and supports undergraduate education by providing course-integrated and course-related instruction, drop-in sessions, courseware-based instruction, online tutorials and guides, and individual consultations. The instruction is learner-centered and encourages all students to be self-sufficient, lifelong, and technology-proficient learners, who understand how to retrieve, critically evaluate, manage, and use information. The department is particularly interested in individuals with a history of promoting diversity and access in higher education.
Under the direction of the Head of Instructional Services in the Doe/Moffitt Libraries, the Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian will work with colleagues to promote, publicize and implement programs, services, and events for incoming first-year students and transfer students and will engage those populations to become more active and engaged users of the library. This person will also coordinate visits and orientations to the Moffitt Library from off-campus and community groups. The incumbent will develop and coordinate library marketing and outreach materials such as displays, exhibits and blog postings, as well as use social networking conduits, liaison relationships, and cultivated relationships with student groups to promote library services to the target community.
This position will coordinate and facilitate online library-related instruction for Berkeley’s diverse student population through a variety of media. In collaboration with library staff, faculty, and other campus partners, the incumbent will design, develop, promote, and assess the effectiveness of curricular materials, tutorials and other digital learning objects for an array of disciplines. This position will also contribute to training and support of other Library colleagues who are developing online instruction. The incumbent will collaborate with the E-Learning Librarian to encourage the incorporation of Library-developed instructional tools into the campus learning management system.
The Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian will be expected to provide leadership and vision as the Library investigates and experiments with emerging technologies that could strengthen online instruction efforts. This person will individually and with others explore, develop, test, and promote new independent learning tools.
This librarian is an active contributor to the department’s instruction program, presenting course-related instruction and drop-in workshops and providing up to 10 hours per week of reference services in the Doe/Moffitt Libraries, with some evening and weekend shifts.
Professional contributions beyond the primary job, such as publications, leadership in University and professional organizations, and other research and creative activity, are required for advancement within the Librarian series. Candidates must show evidence of or potential for such contributions.
Required
Preferred
The Library at the University of California, Berkeley is committed to the support and encouragement of a multicultural environment and seeks candidates who can make positive and imaginative contributions in a context of ethnic and cultural diversity.
Professional librarians at UC are academic appointees and are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This position is in the bargaining unit.
Librarians are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. UC has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance is provided.
DEADLINE : Consideration will be given to applications received by October 31, 2008.
Applicants should apply in writing, including with their letter a complete statement of qualifications, a full resume of their education and relevant experience, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references who are knowledgeable about their qualifications for this position. Send applications to:
Barbara Kornstein
Academic Personnel Specialist
Library Human Resources Department
110 The Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Or FAX to: 510.642.8675
Or EMAIL: librec@library.berkeley.edu
Applications received via email preferred.