First-Year Instruction Librarian, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Posted May 27, 2016
The University of New Hampshire Library is seeking a creative, enthusiastic, and resourceful librarian to join our growing team, and we welcome candidates to apply for the newly created term (3-year contract) position of First-Year Instruction Librarian.
Working closely with the Instruction Librarian, the First-Year Instruction Librarian will play a significant strategic and operational role in evolving the Library’s general instruction program, specifically with regard to providing foundational level information literacy and research skills to first-year students, including those in first-year English composition courses. The librarian will also assist subject librarians to deliver instruction for other first-year undergraduate courses and programs across the university; design, develop, and implement alternatives to face-to-face instruction; and serve on Dimond Library’s general reference desk.
Reporting to the Dean of the University Library through the department chair, this is a three-year term, 80%-time, benefits-eligible, non-tenure track faculty position.
The University of New Hampshire is a major research institution, providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate programs and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast, and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of over 15,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs.
The University seeks excellence through diversity among its administrators, faculty, staff, and students. The university prohibits
discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability,
veteran status, or marital status. Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged.
For a full job description and application process please visit https://jobs.usnh.edu/
Applications will be reviewed starting May 25, 2016, and will continue until the position is filled.