Job Description
The University of North Carolina Wilmington is recruiting for a Business Librarian: https://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/16066. The Business Librarian engages with faculty, students, and staff in the Cameron School of Business and the Communication Studies department via information literacy instruction, research collaboration, outreach and partnership efforts, and collection management. The priority consideration deadline is October 28.
Additional Info & Requirements
Key responsibilities
- Collaborates with faculty to create, provide, and assess information literacy instruction for courses where information literacy skills are in development.
- Provides dedicated research assistance and scholarly communications outreach to the students, faculty, and staff of assigned departments.
- Ensures that the library’s collections adequately support the curricular and research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of the departments it serves by ordering relevant materials.
- Actively engages with assigned departments, which includes collaborative programming such as workshops, panel discussions, exhibits, etc.
- Teaches information literacy sessions to students in First Year Seminar and English Composition courses.
- Provides dedicated support to the Cameron School of Business and the department of Communication Studies.
- Serves as Randall Library’s functional expert on business, nonprofit, market, and industry data tools, both free and subscription-based (for example, ABI/INFORM, Mergent Online, IBISWorld, and Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage)
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging trends in academic library services/resources.
- Strong public service orientation.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively both on teams and independently.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Commitment to fostering an inclusive educational environment and workplace and an ability to work effectively with a diverse faculty and student population.
Preferred formal education, professional skills, and work experience
- Experience providing information literacy instruction and research assistance in an academic library.
- Experience with electronic resources, information technologies, and collection management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging trends in academic library services/resources.
- Demonstrated experience in creating online tutorials or modules and integrating information literacy instruction into online courses.
- Experience with business research tools such as ABI/INFORM, Mergent Online, IBISWorld, and Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage.
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in business, economics, marketing, accounting, communications, or a related field.
The Community
The University of North Carolina Wilmington, the state’s coastal university, is dedicated to learning through the integration of teaching and mentoring with research and service. A public institution with nearly 16,500 students, the university is known for its superb faculty and staff and powerful academic experience. With an array of high-quality programs at the baccalaureate and master’s levels, and doctoral programs in marine biology, educational leadership, psychology and nursing practice. UNCW is consistently recognized at a national level for academic excellence and affordability by publications like U.S. News & World Report, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and The Business Journals. UNCW also recently earned the 2015 Community Engagement Classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, bestowed to higher education institutions dedicated to community involvement. William Madison Randall Library supports the mission of the University of North Carolina Wilmington through the provision of information resources, services and programs relevant to the needs of its students, faculty and staff. It also serves as a rich cultural resource for the surrounding community and the region. To accomplish this mission, the library provides (1) diverse collections of informational resources in multiple formats and specialized technologies to enable the creation of new knowledge; (2) efficient access to those informational resources and technologies; (3) assistance and instruction in identifying, evaluating and interpreting information; (4) a safe and comfortable facility which stimulates intellectual curiosity and reflective thinking; and (5) programs that connect scholars and interested individuals with information and expertise to inspire lifelong learning. |
HR Info
Priority consideration will be given to applications received by the Priority Date; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Required Documents