Public Health - Berkeley, United States - University of California Berkeley

University of California Berkeley

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Berkeley, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Position overview Position title:
Associate Librarian, Career Status or Potential Career Status

Percent time: 100%

Anticipated start:
As soon as October, 2024. Start date is flexible.

Position duration:
This is a full-time potential career appointment.

Application Window

Open date:
May 8, 2024

Next review date:
Friday, Jun 7, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Final date:
Saturday, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a creative, enthusiastic, collaborative, and user-centered librarian to support world-class research and teaching in the sciences.

The position serves as the selector and liaison for public health and optometry, actively engaging with instruction, information literacy, research assistance, collection development, scholarly communications, data services, and outreach to students, faculty, and the broader academic community.

The Environment

The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned teaching and research facility at one of the nation's premier public universities.

A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 30,000 undergraduate students, over 11,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty.

With a collection of more than 13 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills.

The Library's Sciences Division consists of five libraries including the Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, where this position is based.

The Division staff include 10 librarians, 15 staff, and over 50 student employees, who collectively support the research, teaching, and study needs of students and faculty in the College of Chemistry, College of Engineering, College of Natural Resources, College of Letters & Science's Biological Sciences Division, College of Letters & Science's Mathematical & Physical Sciences Division, College of Computing, Data Science & Society's Departments of EECS and Statistics, Department of Geography, School of Optometry, School of Public Health, and an array of Organized Research Units.

The Sciences Division actively strives to create a welcoming, collaborative, inclusive, and accessible culture.

Responsibilities:

The librarian serves as the selector and liaison for Berkeley Public Health and the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science.

To build research-level collections, the librarian contributes to collaborative collection development and management - collecting and curating information in a variety of formats including books, journals, and databases to support teaching and research in the sciences.

This requires collaboration with other librarians on campus and within the UC System on interdisciplinary and/or system-wide collection decisions and scholarly communication issues.

UC professional librarians are academic appointees and are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, the University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT).

This position is in the bargaining unit.

Librarians are eligible for professional development leave, vacation leave, sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel.

The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits.

Qualifications:

Advanced degree or enrolled in an advanced degree program

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
Advanced degree

Preferred qualifications
Master's degree from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent international degree
Experience with or coursework on providing reference services in an academic library
Experience with or coursework on providing instructional services in an academic library
Knowledge of key frameworks and standards related to information literacy
Knowledge of accessible and inclusive teaching practices and principles
Familiarity with new research methods, systematic reviews, and/or research data management
Familiarity with current and emerging trends in STEM research, publishing, and/or education
Demonstrated commitment to collaboration and relationship building
Demonstrated commitment to promoting underrepresented voices in STEM and fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion

Application Requirements

Document requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

Cover Letter

Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including information about your understanding of these topics, your record of activitie