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February 5, 2018

Scholarly Communications Officer

• Seattle University
• Seattle, WA

Description

Seattle University’s Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons invites applications for an experienced, flexible, and innovative library faculty member to serve in the position of Scholarly Communication Officer. This 12-month non-tenure-track position, at a rank of Assistant or Associate Librarian, is available April 1, 2018.

Lemieux Library Faculty are uniquely positioned to meaningfully contribute to the transformation of the scholarly communication system and to lead change across campus. With this position, Lemieux will focus and accelerate its engagement with scholarly communication issues to benefit the Seattle University community while leveraging our investment in the bepress™ Digital Commons subscription. Towards this end, the position’s scope is intentionally broad, encompassing the diverse areas that comprise the scholarly communication landscape today – institutional repositories, library-based publishing, copyright in making and sharing scholarship, digital scholarship, open access, open education, measuring research impact, meeting funder mandates, and research data management. Liaison and Library Faculty responsibilities round out the incumbent’s portfolio.

Responsibilities for scholarly communication

• Assess the scholarly communication awareness and needs of Seattle University students and faculty and identify ways to meet them.
• Develop a vision and roadmap to take the newly launched institutional repository to the next level.
• Develop, implement, and manage a plan to identify and ingest content into the institutional repository, especially content that is not currently open.
• Discover, devise, market and assess implementable strategies for involving the Seattle University community in both understanding and participating in scholarly publishing and the scholarly publishing landscape.
• Work collaboratively with campus colleagues, including the Center for Faculty Development, Copyright Policy Coordinator, Office of Information Technology, Office of Sponsored Programs, and the Office of University Council, to advance scholarly communication awareness on campus.
• Provide guidance and education on the use of rights-protected materials in scholarly communications and digital scholarship, campus and Library projects, and online learning environments and classrooms.
• Provide first-line support for users who have questions about or problems with the institutional repository; e.g. create research guides related to scholarly communication, the institutional repository, copyright, and open access.
• Work collaboratively with other Liaison Librarians, Library Coordinators, faculty, and students on scholarly communication, institutional repository, copyright, and open access resources and services relative to their assigned liaison areas.
• Assist in implementing and maintaining open access work at Seattle University with activities that include formulating and managing a plan to open relevant content that is behind paywalls; doing outreach and coordinating events related to open access, such as group events for repository deposit and talks and presentations about open access; and answering specific questions and solving problems about open access for students, faculty, and staff.
• Keep abreast of tools, methodologies, and best practices for monitoring and increasing researchers’ impact, to provide community input and facilitate campus decision-making about supporting scholarly impact and return on research investment.
• Maintain an understanding of the academic drivers and economic principles that underlie scholarly publishing worldwide, to evaluate and provide guidance about opportunities, benefits, and challenges of broader and more open dissemination of scholarship and data.
• Maintain working knowledge of how open educational resources (OERs) are used, created, and supported, to establish or advance relevant campus programs.
• Participate in Orbis Cascade Alliance and other regional and national working groups related to scholarly communication.
  This individual may supervise research assistants, interns, or student workers.

Liaison Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison to one or more academic programs with responsibilities to maintain subject expertise, develop collections, provide specialized research services and instruction, and create resource guides.
• Provide outreach, foster communication, and market library services.
• Educate and inform students and faculty on scholarly communication issues, such as open-access initiatives, digital publishing, and copyright.

Library Faculty Responsibilities

• Contribute to library wide initiatives by serving on library, campus, inter-institutional and consortia committees, participating in strategic planning initiatives, and cooperating closely with other library units.
• As a member of the Library Faculty, participate in the process to define and to exercise the rights and responsibilities associated with faculty governance consistent with the cultures of the university and the library.
• Engage in research, scholarly publication, professional development, and service activities in areas appropriate to academic librarianship and the disciplines served as outlined in the Committee for Librarian Evaluation and Promotion documents.
• Continuously assess and improve library operations and services through data collection and analysis.

Experience and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications: MLS from an ALA-accredited program or non-U.S. equivalent.

In addition, candidates must provide evidence of:

• Interest in scholarly communications issues and trends in higher education and a basic understanding of bibliographic standards and conventions.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and student success.
• Commitment to contributing to a supportive, collegial work environment.
• Experience in solving problems independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to accept and support the mission of Seattle University and its commitment to the vision and values of Jesuit and Catholic higher education.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Work experience in a university setting and with institutional repositories.
• Demonstrated knowledge of copyright issues in an academic library.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the scholarly publishing landscape, including legal issues, open access and author rights.
• Experience with or training in project management techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse constituents with a variety of levels of skill and understanding.
• Experience with using automated tools, such as design software, video production and social media, for communication, outreach and marketing.

January 19, 2018

Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian

• University of Delaware
• Newark, Delaware

Deadline: Open until filled; review of applications begins February 15, 2018

Pay Grade: 30E or 31E

The University of Delaware Library seeks a motivated, creative, and service-oriented professional to serve as Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian. The position reports to the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Publishing and Research and is part of a newly established team that encompasses digital scholarship services, digitization and digital publishing, and the University of Delaware Press. Team members collaborate with colleagues from across the Library to provide these services.

The Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian will design, implement, and assess an active program of education, training, advocacy, and support to promote effective sharing and barrier-free access to scholarly resources, and will provide strategic leadership of the service team that supports the Library’s digital repositories, including UDSpace and ArtStor.

Major responsibilities include:

• Act as an advocate and resource for faculty, students, and staff on a full range of issues that promote barrier-free availability of scholarly intellectual resources, including open access, fair use, author’s rights, Creative Commons and other open licensing, streaming media, e-reserves, interlibrary loan of licensed content;
• Develop and promulgate education and resource materials, online and in print, for a range of constituencies within the Library, as well as UD faculty, students, and staff;
• Develop and implement an educational program employing the above documentation;
• Assist researchers with questions and needs regarding rights to their authored content;
• Lead Library support for the UD Faculty Senate resolution on open access; collaborate with subject liaison librarians to promulgate faculty author rights retention, Creative Commons licensing, and open access publishing;
• Provide strategic direction for UDSpace, ArtStor, and other digital repositories, and coordinate the work of the team who support it (including subject liaisons, digital scholarship librarian, digital collections and Library IT staff);
• Provide guidance to colleagues throughout the Library, Museums, and Press on copyright and intellectual property issues and procedures;
• Advise UD researchers on options for open access publishing, including Open Educational Resources;
• Serve as a member of the Library Management Council and other relevant Library and University committees.
• Participate in professional programs at the local, regional, or national level as appropriate;
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned or deemed appropriate to the accomplishment of the responsibilities and functions of the position.

Qualifications: ALA-accredited graduate library degree or JD from accredited institution. Minimum of 3 years relevant library experience. Evidence of knowledge and experience in copyright law as it relates to fair use and library exemptions, new modes of scholarly communication, open access, authors’ rights, and scholarly use of intellectual property. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a culturally diverse community. Ability to provide instruction in an academic setting. Effective oral and written communications skills. Effective public presentation and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact effectively with faculty, students, and other key stakeholders. Strong public service orientation, a high degree of facility with technologies and systems germane to the 21st century library, and be well-versed in the issues surrounding scholarly communication across a variety of disciplines. Supervisory experience preferred.

General Information: The University of Delaware Library is committed to student success, scholarly research and inclusive excellence. The Library is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. We welcome those who have demonstrated a commitment to upholding the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion and will assist us to expand our capacity for diversity in the broadest sense. The Library collaborates with strategic campus partners to achieve these priorities, as well as with national professional organizations including the Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, Council on Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation, OCLC Research Partnership, SPARC, HathiTrust, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and the ACRL Diversity Alliance. More information about the Library is available at: https://library.udel.edu/

Appointment: Appointment expected at the rank of Senior Assistant Librarian (pay grade 30E with 3-8 years relevant experience) or the rank of Associate Librarian (pay grade 31E with 9+ years relevant experience). More information about the University of Delaware Library Rank and Promotion System is available at: https://library.udel.edu/about/personnel/promotion/

Benefits: 22 vacation days. Generous 403B retirement plan. Tuition remission for dependents and spouse, and course fee waiver for employee. Full information about University of Delaware benefits is available at: http://www.udel.edu/content/udel/en/faculty-staff/human-resources/benefits.html.

To Apply: Include cover letter and resume, along with the names and contact information of three employment references, in a single document, following University of Delaware application instructions at: http://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/human-resources/careers/

Equal Employment Opportunity: The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer which encourages applications from Minority Group Members, Women, Individuals with Disabilities and Veterans. The University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination can be found at: http://www.udel.edu/home/legal-notices/. Employment offers will be conditioned upon successful completion of a criminal background check. A conviction will not necessarily exclude you from employment.

January 11, 2018

User Experience and Project Management Librarian

• IUPUI
• Indianapolis, IN

Job Summary

The IUPUI University Library seeks a User Experience (UX) and Project Management Librarian to be a part of the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, and Operations Team. This UX and PM Librarian will lead the user-centric, ongoing development of the library’s web presence, employing student and faculty focused usability testing and industry standards to inform, and project management skills to organize timely work completion.  The library’s web presence includes: our website, research guides, over 80 digital collections, institutional and data repositories, open publishing services, digital humanities projects, a discovery system, and other digital interfaces.  The UX and PM Librarian participates in all stages of web site development – from concept to implementation.  She/He will have a passion for innovative problem solving and be the key translator between expressed web interface needs and the technologists who make the web designs a reality. The UX and PM Librarian works in a highly collaborative cross-unit environment including with other academic technologists on broad scale, grant funded, national digital library solution efforts.  In an ever-changing technology environment the UX and PM Librarian will need to be able to quickly learn and implement new technologies.

The UX and PM Librarian reports to the Associate Dean of Digital Scholarship and works closely with the Head of Operations (library technology team).  The UX and PM Librarian will demonstrate the potential to fulfill the requirements for promotion and tenure and an understanding of IUPUI’s mission, “to advance the state of Indiana and the intellectual growth of its citizens to the highest levels nationally and internationally through research and creative activity, teaching and learning, and civic engagement.”

Primary Responsibilities

Project Management

• Scope, plan, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Communicate project priorities and goals with project stakeholders, developers, and library-wide staff.
• Create and maintain project documentation.
• Participate, as needed, on library committees. May provide advice or assistance to other units within the University Library regarding user research or interface issues.

Interface Design

• Create concept sketches, flow diagrams, wireframes, mockups, and html prototypes.
• Create complete visual designs and web-ready graphics.
• Conduct ongoing research into the development of new interface capabilities, enhancements, and user-centered design trends.

User Research

• Design and conduct user research/usability studies using a variety of techniques (e.g. formal/informal usability testing, online surveys, card sorting, interviews, observations, focus groups, participatory design).
• Conduct regular web analytics to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct web accessibility audits.

Required Qualifications

• An ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library or Information Science
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, contribute and collaborate effectively as a member of a team as well as lead a project group.

Additional Qualifications

It is expected that the Librarian will be highly proficient in at least 5 of the following qualifications with no predetermined preferred combination.  The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop additional skills through library supported professional development.

• Creating complete interface designs and web-ready graphics.
• Utilizing graphics software and prototyping software (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator).
• Designing and/or evaluating library systems or other complex websites.
• Designing and/or evaluating mobile interfaces.
• Employing a variety of user research/usability methods.
• Employing web accessibility standards and coding techniques.
• Conducting web analytics analysis.
• Creating concept sketches, flow diagrams, wire frames, and mock-ups.
• Utilizing collaborative programming tools such as Confluence, Jira , GitHub, or similar.
• Coding experience (possible languages include: HTML5, CSS, XML HP, JavaScript, XSLT, and/or  CSS)
• Utilizing open source software such as: Drupal, DSpace, Open Journal System, Fedora, Hydra/Samvera.
• Programming in Ruby on Rails, Javascript or other languages.
• Working in agile programming environment.
• Managing complex projects including delegation of work and timeline creation.
• A degree or training in a relevant technology oriented field (e.g., Project Management, Graphic Design, UxD, HCI, Digital Humanities) is desired but not required.

About IUPUI and University Library

As one of only 18 universities nationwide to receive the prestigious Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from Insight Into Diversity (the nation’s oldest higher education diversity publication) for five consecutive years, IUPUI is an urban-serving institution with a mission and a vision focused on both diversity and community engagement.  Home to three recent Library Journal Movers and Shakers, the University Library is looking for librarians who will support our commitment to engage with the wider educational community through performance, professional development and service that are inclusive of the rich diversity of our campus and our city.

Ranked 5th by U.S. News and World Report in “Up-and-Coming National Universities,” IUPUI is an urban research and health sciences campus with 18 schools and 250 degree programs.  Located in downtown Indianapolis, a multicultural and affordable mid-sized city, the campus serves more than 30,000 students annually, 15.6% of whom are classified as an ethnic minority and 4.5% of whom are international students.

IUPUI’s goal is to create an academic community, rich with intellectual, cultural and social diversity. As part of the IUPUI campus, the University Library values diversity in the backgrounds of our staff. IUPUI is an affirmative action and an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting, hiring, promoting, educating, and providing services to persons based upon their individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, disability status, or protected veteran status. Individuals who require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application process may contact library administration.

Compensation and Application

Minimum salary is $50,000, with additional funding for professional development and travel. Benefits include 22 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, health/dental insurance options, and retirement contributions of 10% to either TIAA-CREF or Fidelity plans.  A start-up package includes $10,000 for moving and additional professional development expenses.

Deadline for applications is February 9, 2018.  The position is available no sooner than April 2018.  Please forward a resume, contact information for four references (include name, title, telephone number, and e-mail address) and a letter of application discussing your ability to contribute to student success at IUPUI and the strengths you will bring to the position.  Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/5258

January 11, 2018

Library Fellow

• Valparaiso University
• Valparaiso, Indiana

Christopher Center Library Services and Valparaiso University are committed to fostering a diverse student body and faculty. We are pleased to announce an open position for the 2018-21 Library Fellow. This three-year faculty position provides the opportunity for an entry-level librarian, with a demonstrated commitment to diverse and historically underrepresented groups, to gain professional experience as an academic librarian.

As a member of the University faculty, the Library Fellow should be interested in working at a university engaged in issues in Christian higher education and in the Lutheran tradition. The Library Fellow will benefit from immediate opportunities in scholarly and professional development, faculty governance of the library, library policy creation, and service on library and campus committees and task forces. Current library faculty are engaged in a wide range of professional and campus-related activities, from embedded librarianship to scholarly communication initiatives, from writing-across-the-curriculum programming to changing service models, and welcome a new colleague’s interests and insights.

The position is designed to be a three-year commitment. During the first year, the librarian will gain meaningful, introductory work experience within the library’s Electronic Services Department, encompassing information literacy, digital humanities, data visualization, scholarly communications, scholarly publishing and/or copyright. In consultation with the Scholarly Communication Services Librarian, and other librarians as appropriate, the Library Fellow will begin to develop an original research project, one which can be conducted during the fellowship, culminating in a presentation or peer-reviewed publication. Across all years, the Library Fellow will have the opportunity to shadow another librarian as a subject liaison to an academic program, and will manage the library’s recreation collection. Liaison work includes providing specialized student information literacy instruction and consultation, collaborating with disciplinary faculty, and working with collections and information resources in specific subject areas.

Required Qualifications

A candidate will provide evidence of

• an ALA-accredited Master’s Degree, or equivalent, by the time of appointment,
• a distinct interest in academic librarianship,
• a demonstrable commitment to diversity,
• strong communication skills,
• an engagement with teaching and student success,
• the capability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment,
• experience with current and emerging technologies, and
• interest in digital humanities, data visualization, scholarly communications, scholarly publishing and/or copyright.

A candidate must be authorized to work in the United States for the full duration of the program.

Status, Salary, and Benefits

This is a full-time, non-tenure track faculty position at the Lecturer level with yearly 12 month appointments. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The position offers immediate eligibility for the full benefits package (TIAA/CREF retirement; life insurance; medical, dental, and vision care benefits). This position also receives 20 vacation days in addition to University holidays and other fringe benefits and special discounts.

Timeline

With an expected start date of July 1, 2018, review of applications will begin immediately. Those received before noon, January 30, 2018, will receive full consideration. Review will continue until the suitable candidate is hired for the position.

Application Procedure

All application materials must be submitted electronically via the Interfolio system at http://apply.interfolio.com/47455:

• A letter of application,
• a 350-550 word essay, detailing your experience and interest in the position as they relate to diversity as reflected in Valparaiso University’s mission of the Office of Inclusion and Student Success Services,
• a current resume or CV, and
• contact information for three professional references.

Valparaiso University, a community of learning dedicated to excellence and grounded in the Lutheran tradition of scholarship, freedom, and faith, prepares students to lead and serve in both church and society. Located one hour southeast of Chicago on a 310-acre campus, Valpo is a comprehensive undergraduate and graduate university with enrollment of over 4,000 students in its Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business, Nursing & Health Professions, Engineering, and Christ College (Honors College); the Graduate School; and the School of Law.

The award-winning Christopher Center for Library and Information Services provides active learning environments in which students, faculty, and staff use innovative tools and resources to create and access information intelligently, efficiently, and with integrity.

Successful applicants will demonstrate a commitment to cultural diversity and the ability to work with individuals or groups from diverse backgrounds. In addition to strong academic qualifications and excellence in teaching, the University highly values experience in working across cultural and other significant differences.

Employment at Valparaiso University will require a satisfactory criminal background check.