St. Cloud State University Library seeks a collaborative and innovative Affordability and Digital Initiatives Librarian to strengthen and support the University in the areas of affordable learning initiatives, institutional repositories, outreach, and library instruction and research services.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and promote the Library’s affordable learning initiative and work with faculty to discover, adopt, adapt, and create OER and to identify library resources for courses.
- Work collaboratively to promote and further develop the institutional repository in open publishing and dissemination support.
- Participate in-person and virtually in library instruction and research services.
- Contribute to strategically-aligned initiatives within the It’s Time strategic vision, including the Teacher-Scholar model, Individualized Student Success, and DEI.
Recent graduates are encouraged to apply for this temporary, nine-month faculty position.
Requirements
Required:
- Master’s degree in Library Science (MLS or MLIS) from a library school accredited by the American Library Association (or ALA-recognized foreign equivalent), conferred by time of hire.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team as well as independently on projects or initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to think critically about equity, inclusion, and diversity, and accessibility in reviewing and recommending resources from both a representational and authoring perspective.
Preferred:
- Experience working in an academic library.
- Knowledge or experience (including coursework) related to OER, open pedagogy, open licensing, copyright, resource affordability, and institutional repositories, including open source and commercial products and vendors.
- Experience or coursework in leading workshops or providing library instruction in a variety of modalities.
- Experience writing, managing, or participating in grants at a local, state, or national level.
- Experience, knowledge of, or coursework in providing library services, including but not limited to:
- Research support across disciplines and levels;
- Organization of complex data, generating reports or analytics;
- Current trends, practices, and experience working in scholarly communications or digital/open models of access and publishing