Reedley - Reedley College - Librarian (Full-Time)

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Salary

Starting salary is $60,678 – $91,350 based on education and experience. A doctoral stipend of $2,270 is available.

Close Date

02/22/2022

Essential Functions of Position

At Reedley College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful faculty member will be an equity-minded individual committed to student success by collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps. An equity-minded individual is a person who: 

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices; 
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility; 
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference; 
• Reflects on institutional and teaching practices and aims to create a culturally responsive teaching environment; and 
• Strategically builds buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives. 
• Reedley College seeks faculty members who value mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment, guided by a commitment to helping all students achieve their educational goals. Divisions strongly encourage collaboration across disciplines to create inclusive, integrated, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. Reedley College faculty are expected to be knowledgeable about, and willing to use, different learning and teaching methods appropriate to the students they serve. Faculty members should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Reedley College. 

 

The ideal candidate will share Reedley College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. As of Spring 2021, we currently enroll over 7,500 students in which 75% identify as Latinx, 5% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 2% as Black/African American, 16% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Reedley College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves. 

 

Reedley College is seeking a knowledgeable and energetic librarian with a strong commitment to service and to provide public and technical services to students; to participate in library instruction and campus outreach services. Under the direction of Dean of Instruction, the successful candidate will: 

 

• Provide on demand reference and reader’s advisory services to students; 
• Conduct bibliographic instruction for students in a classroom environment; 
• Plan and present library tours; 
• Collaborate with faculty to increase awareness of library resources to students; 
• Promote library resources and services to faculty, students and campus groups; 
• Collaborate with other librarians in the development of budget proposals; 
• Collaborate with other librarians to establish library policies and procedures; 
• Participate in collection development; 
• Perform technical services duties; 
• Ensure consistent access to electronic resources; 
• Practice in planning and implementing the college’s information competency goals; 
• Collaborate with other librarians to design and teach library research skills and library technology courses, workshops and online tutorials; 
• Participate in professional development activities, program development and review, student activities, and faculty committees; 
• Develop technology used for classroom presentations; 
• Advise students; 
• Participate in student recruiting activities; 
• Cooperate with regard to scheduling classes between colleagues in the same disciplines; 
• Serve on and attend department, college, and district committees as needed; 
• Participate in program review, student learning outcome development and assessment to improve student learning; 
• Teaching assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, on-line or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed; and 
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.

Minimum Qualifications

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice; AND 

 

A master’s in library science, library and information science;

 

OR 

 

A valid California Community College Credential;

 

OR 

 

The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency). 

 

(NOTE: If the degrees posted on your transcript(s) do not match EXACTLY as stated above, you MUST petition for equivalency.)

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility; 
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes; 
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students; 
• Experience working with a diverse student population; 
• Related work and professional experience; 
• Experience working with students of various cultural, gender, age, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds, including disabled students; 
• One year of experience in an academic library setting, especially in a community college; 
• Experience with reader’s advisory and reference services; 
• Knowledge of the current state of information technology in libraries; 
• Knowledge of collection development and technical services functions; 
• Experience in library instruction, student engagement, freshman experience, and outreach; 
• Master’s degree in a content field; 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with students and staff; 
• Potential for contribution to institutional vitality and growth; and 
• Knowledge of the community college and its mission and goals.