Librarian, Roxbury Community College, Roxbury Crossing, MA
Posted March 27, 2018
Roxbury Community College is an urban, public, 2-year College serving a diverse community, including people of color, recent immigrants and non-traditional populations. The College’s mission is to facilitate student success in achieving educational goals through the delivery of high-quality transfer and career programs. RCC strives to honor traditional commitments, and to be responsive to new challenges and insights through workforce training, ESOL, and community education. The student population at the college is diverse in ethnicity, gender, language, age and background. Roxbury Community College is an AA/EO employer and strongly encourages applications from candidates who would enhance the diversity of its staff. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
General Statement of Duties: Provide professional library services to Roxbury Community College students, faculty, and staff. Responsible for providing all aspects of library services such as reference, instruction, circulation, cataloging, collection development and archive management.
Examples of Duties:
- Provide a wide range of reference services to students, faculty, administration, and the public.
- Serve as subject liaison to assigned academic departments and engage with faculty in person, by email, and through library programming.
- Responsible for collection development, including de-accessioning, in assigned subject areas.
- Teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced library instruction courses to students, in coordination with full and adjunct faculty.
- Develop and teach drop-in workshops on a range of topics.
- Use LibGuides to create class and subject-specific research guides for the library website.
- Responsible for all aspects of the College Archives and Special Collections, including appraisal, arrangement and description, reference, outreach, donor relations, and digitization.
- Catalog all library materials.
- Provide circulation assistance to library users.
- Supervise/Oversee library work-study students.
- Track selected statistics and prepare detailed monthly and annual reports.
- Serve on college committees as assigned.
- Comply with the duties as stipulated in the Massachusetts Community College Council Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
All candidates must have legal rights to work in the United States
- ALA accredited Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science.
- 3 years professional experience in the areas of library public service, reference, instruction, cataloging, and archives and special collections
- Knowledge of MARC records and OCLC as a source of cataloging records.
- Strong customer service, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- A demonstrated ability to work with an adult, multicultural, and multilingual student population is required. Experience in a community college is desirable.
- Knowledge and practice of archival concepts, techniques, and the historical contexts governing archival operations.
- Professional experience in processing archival collections, creating finding aids, digitizing records, and performing outreach to archival researchers.
- Working knowledge of basic computer business applications
- Strong writing skills.
Additional Desired Qualifications:
- Working experience in a community college setting.
- Archive track education.
To be considered for this position, applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter.
Application deadline April 30, 2018.
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