Business Research and Instruction Librarian, University of Washington, (Bothell, WA)

Posted October 1, 2025

Job Description:

Under the general direction of the Director of Teaching and Learning Services and in consultation with the Head of Undergraduate Instruction, the Business Research and Instruction Librarian will collaborate with colleagues within the library and across campus to contribute to the library’s in-person and online instruction and reference services, and to develop the library’s collections. As a member of a collaborative and supportive team of fourteen librarians, they will contribute to the library’s Teaching and Learning program by collaborating with faculty to provide course-integrated information literacy instruction across the curriculum at Cascadia College and UW Bothell. They will develop, deliver, and assess information literacy instruction utilizing learning technologies, active learning strategies, and inclusive and culturally responsive pedagogies in support of student learning. They will liaise with the UW Bothell School of Business and faculty teaching business and economics at Cascadia College. They may also help liaise with selected STEM fields at UW Bothell and Cascadia, such as data and/or natural sciences, yet to be determined and based on emerging unit needs.

Responsibilities:

Specific Responsibilities and Duties (80%)

• Serves as a subject liaison to business curricula and degree programs. May also help liaise with selected STEM fields yet to be determined and based on unit needs.
• Provides classroom and online instruction in the library’s curriculum-integrated information literacy program, both in their subject areas and in the library’s first year and English Composition information literacy curricula at UW Bothell and Cascadia College.
• Provides research assistance to students, faculty, and staff at the Research Help desk and online, under the direction of the Director of Public Services.
• Selects print and electronic materials for the undergraduate and graduate business curricula, informed by the UW Libraries larger research collections and regional consortia, and under the direction of the Director of Collections Strategy.
• Plays an active role in planning and assessing library services.

Service and Professional Development (20%)

• Engages in professional development and service activities in pursuit of professional growth, promotion and continuing appointment, and to advance library services and initiatives.

Qualifications

Required

• Graduate degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or an equivalent graduate library science/information studies degree.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and understanding of the contributions a diverse workforce brings to the workplace.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in working with students from diverse backgrounds, interests, and abilities who possess a wide range of educational goals.

Preferred

• Experience in online and in-person research and instruction services in an academic or library setting, including:
  • liaison and collection development work,
  • user centered public service philosophy, and
  • familiarity with critical information literacy.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in current and emerging instructional technologies and online learning pedagogies for hybrid and online instruction.
• Experience, coursework, or demonstrated interest in business, marketing, business librarianship, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively balance workload and competing priorities in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment where consultation, flexibility, creativity, and cooperation are essential.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to establish and maintain positive and productive working relationships.
• Commitment to continually seeking improvement in practices, services, collections, and facilities.
• Demonstrated interest in engaging in scholarship or other professional contributions.

How to Apply:

To learn more about this position and submit an application visit Interfolio.(https://apply.interfolio.com/173725)

Priority review date: Applications received by 8:59 p.m. PDT/11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday, October 30, 2025, will receive priority review.Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling biweekly basis at the discretion of the unit.