Librarian, Student Success/Interlibrary Loan job posting (Babson College), (Wellesley, MA)
Posted July 18, 2023
The Librarian, Student Success/Interlibrary Loan will plan, implement, and evaluate, a range of outreach activities that support student success. In collaboration with the library staff and campus partners across the college, the Student Success Librarian/Interlibrary Loan is responsible for promoting library resources and services to support students’ academic and research needs; creating and executing marketing strategies to increase the library’s visibility and usage; promoting and facilitating the adoption of open educational resources (OER); and overseeing interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing and lending operations.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Build and maintain relationships with campus partners in academic departments, campus programs, and student organizations to promote library resources and services that support student success.
- Devise and execute marketing strategies to increase the library’s visibility and usage, including creating content for the library website, social media, and other communication channels.
- Advocate for and facilitate the adoption of OER and other affordable alternatives to commercial textbooks through advocacy, outreach, and education.
- Manage ILL borrowing and lending operations, including receiving and processing ILL requests from faculty, students, and staff.
- Train and oversee student employees on ILL borrowing and lending operations.
- Design and implement innovative programming for students that cultivates belonging and awareness of library resources and services for library users.
- Identify and address barriers to student use of library collections, services, and spaces in collaboration with library staff.
- Serve as a contributing member of at least one cross-functional library committee.
- Serve as a backup for supervising Information Desk operations.
- Depending on need, may provide research consultations and support to students, faculty, administration, and other members of the campus community.
- Learns, implements, and uses new technologies in pursuit of continuous enhancement of library services and in support of larger Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) initiatives.
- Assumes additional responsibilities as required.
YOUR TEAM WILL INCLUDE
Student employees
WHAT EDUCATION AND SKILLS YOU WILL NEED
- Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies from a school accredited by the American Library Association
- At least 1-3 years of relevant experience
- Must have evidence of exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with diverse students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and other community members.
- Must have a demonstrated commitment to working with a diverse and inclusive student body, faculty, staff, and other constituents.
- Must have knowledge of, or willingness to learn about, business education and business library resources
- Must have excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively while maintaining effective working relationships with diverse co-workers, students, faculty, staff, administrators, and other community members.
- Ability to anticipate and effectively handle change; demonstrate a willingness to try new skills and challenging tasks; and is flexible in changing conditions.
- Envisions and proposes new methods to perform tasks that support Entrepreneurial Thought & Action (ET&A); takes thoughtful risks; and accepts new and ongoing initiatives, objectives, and solutions to gain sought-after results.
- Must have strong computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
HOW AND WHERE YOU WILL WORK
This position may require a varying work schedule, including some evening hours.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS YOU MAY HAVE
- Experience with Springshare LibApps preferred
- Experience with marketing and communication, including content creation preferred