Student Success Librarian

Company: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Location: Newark
Posted on: April 19, 2024

Job Description:

Title:
Student Success Librarian

Department:
Van Houten Library
Reports To:
Associate University Librarian for Research & Engagement

Position Type:
Staff

Position Summary:
The Robert W. Van Houten Library at New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT) seeks a creative, curious, and detail-oriented Student Success
Librarian to develop and nurture an undergraduate-focused information
literacy program. This is a 12-month professional staff position and works
under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Research &
Engagement. The successful candidate will incorporate resilience,
resourcefulness, and solutions orientation to manage time and deadlines, as
well as balance demands and priorities. The position typically works a
35-hour work week with one remote work day and may require occasional evening
and weekend hours based on instructional needs.
Essential Functions:
Information
Literacy, Instruction, and Outreach (80%):
- Collaborates with faculty to design
outcomes-based information literacy instruction aligned with course
objectives, course assessments, and educational standards such as ABET and
the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy.
- Team leader for the librarians in
developing instructional materials, establishing best practices, staying
current with pedagogical developments, and scheduling library instruction.
- Uses various instructional
technologies to develop information literacy instruction in a variety of
modalities (online, blended, hybrid, in-person).
- Develops undergraduate-focused
instruction program across the curriculum, in particular for first-year courses:
First Year Seminar, English 102, and Fundamentals of Engineering Design (FED)
101.
- Conducts formative and summative
assessments of undergraduate information literacy instruction.
- Contributes to the Library's social
media accounts by creating campaigns/content to promote information literacy,
collections, resources, and services.
- Works collaboratively with
librarians, particularly subject liaison librarians, and other units on
campus to develop, promote, and support various programming for open access,
data management, and scholarly communications.
- Partners with the Scholarly
Communications Librarian to collaborate and manage the Open & Affordable
Textbook (OAT) program by assisting in discovering, adapting, creating, and
using OER content for the undergraduate students.
- Partners with the Library Access
& Outreach Services Coordinator to plan and promote library collections,
resources, services, and events focusing on undergraduate students.
- Monitors emerging national trends
in library outreach and instruction.
- Serves on library, faculty, and
university-wide committees.
Subject
Liaison (20%)
- Serves as the subject liaison
librarian to an academic department as assigned.
- Contributes to on-call shifts to
provide reference and research support in person, via chat, phone, and email.
- Collection development for assigned
subject.
- Creates and maintains research
guides and instructional materials for assigned subject.
Additional Functions:
Performs other duties as assigned.
Prerequisite Qualifications:
- An ALA-accredited Master's degree in library information science or
related field.
- Three (3) years of
relevant professional library experience supporting information literacy in a
college/university library.
- Demonstrated knowledge of
issues, trends, and technologies related to academic research, instructional
technologies, and information literacy instruction.
- Demonstrated excellence
with interpersonal skills and project management.
- At the university's
discretion, formal education and experience prerequisites may be accepted if
the candidate can demonstrate an equivalent combination of education and
experience to the satisfaction of the university, specifically preparing the
candidate for success in the position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A second Master's degree in a STEM or education discipline.
- Instructional design
training/certification.
- Experience in searching
Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and other academic databases.
- Ability to work
independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
Bargaining Unit:
PSA
Range/Band:
23
FLSA:
Exempt
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