Learning & Instructional Services Librarian, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Posted November 22, 2019
Z. Smith Reynolds Library seeks a creative, collaborative, student-centered library instruction professional with the passion and ability to advance the library’s information literacy priorities through their position as Learning and Instructional Services Librarian.
Reporting to the library’s Director of Research & Instruction Services, the Learning and Instructional Services librarian will be responsible for the planning, administration, and assessment of the library’s robust credit-bearing and course-integrated instruction efforts in order to efficiently and strategically align them with the university’s evolving undergraduate curriculum. The successful candidate will have significant teaching experience and will be a teacher’s advocate, able to mentor their peer instruction librarians and developing and coordinating professional development for the team. They will teach 2-3 sections a year of the library’s credit-bearing elective information literacy courses and may also participate in library instruction for other courses, groups, or visitors.
Working with their peer instruction librarians and others throughout the library, the successful candidate will tell the story of our instruction program to various stakeholder audiences throughout the university community, and will build critical relationships on campus by serving on relevant university committees. As a member of the Research & Instruction Services team, [the Learning Services Librarian] may provide research assistance in-person and online as needed, and may also serve as a liaison to an academic department. This is a twelve-month position, with Library Faculty status.
Selection preference will be given to candidates with experience teaching and leading instruction programs in an academic library; a commitment to student-centered, inclusive teaching practices; the ability to work productively, both independently and with a team; the ability to plan and carry out instruction for diverse student populations; experience with assessment of instruction; the flexibility to adapt and respond to the ever-changing landscape of information services in an academic library; and excellent communication, research and writing skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
Candidates must possess a Master’s degree in Library Science from an ALA-accredited program or a master’s degree in a related field with three or more years of instruction experience in an academic or research library setting. Experience teaching a credit-bearing information literacy course, or similar teaching experience and fluency with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
Desired Qualifications:
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Experience with and a commitment to accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, inclusive teaching practices, and instructional design
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Experience with the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), including knowledge of emerging library pedagogies
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Experience with programmatic and/or course-specific assessment for library instruction.
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Experience with instructional technologies, especially the Canvas Learning Management System, and knowledge of current ed-tech trends
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Experience building successful strategic relationships with faculty, administrators, student support offices, and academic departments
Salary and Rank:
Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. The position is appointed to a Library Faculty rank as established by Wake Forest University. Rank at appointment is based on the successful applicant’s experience and relevant credentials.
Review of applications begins December 1st, 2019 and continues until the position is filled.
To Apply
Interested applicants should go to https://wfu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty_Career_Website_live and submit cover letter, resume and references within the online system.
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library, with a collection of over 1.9 million volumes, materials expenditures of over $6 million, and an operating budget of over $14 million, serves over 5,200 undergraduates and 2,800 graduate and professional students within the Wake Forest Schools of Business and Accountancy, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Wake Forest Divinity School. Wake Forest is a private university where academic excellence is consistently recognized through rankings in the top tier of the country’s finest liberal arts institutions. Wake Forest offers a rare combination – the academic and technological resources, facilities and Division I athletic programs associated with a large university with the compact campus, small classes and individual attention only a smaller school can provide. The University has a deep institutional commitment to public service and engagement with the world, as indicated by the motto “Pro Humanitate.” The university is beautifully located between the western mountains and east coast beaches of North Carolina.
Wake Forest University welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applicants with demonstrated success in working with diverse populations. Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.