Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara City College - Librarian

https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/sbcc/jobs/3816747/librarian

Salary

$64,204.00 - $100,654.00 Annually

Close Date

2/13/2023 11:59 PM Pacific

Description

Beginning Fall 2023, one full-time tenure-track faculty position will be available in the Luria Library. We are seeking applicants who have a commitment to student success and can participate in a team environment dedicated to excellent service and culturally responsive librarianship that addresses the racial, gender, socioeconomic, academic, and cultural diversity within our community college student population. Our emphasis on creativity, collaboration, and intentional use of technology makes the Luria Library a dynamic workplace.

The Outreach and Collection Development Librarian will work collaboratively with other librarians, faculty and staff to design intentional programming, create partnerships and maintain culturally diverse and inclusive library materials to support student learning, success, and equity. The Librarian will lead the Luria Library’s collection development and management activities to ensure that purchased library materials support student success in a rapidly changing information landscape. The Librarian will cultivate relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members to encourage collaborative partnerships. The Librarian will work closely with staff and faculty across academic, student services, and student academic support departments to raise awareness about the various ways that the Library can serve as an essential partner in facilitating student success.

Other major responsibilities include providing face-to-face and online reference services, instructing students and faculty in the use of Library resources, and teaching information competency workshops grounded in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and the Luria Library’s Program Student Learning Outcomes. In our teaching, we seek to use critical information literacy instruction and culturally responsive pedagogy for engaging Black, Latinx/e, and other students who are historically underrepresented and underserved by many academic libraries. Responsibilities also include full participation in departmental responsibilities and college service (such as committee assignments and co-curricular activities).

SALARY & PERSONNEL BENEFITS:

The current salary schedule range for an entering tenure-track faculty member is $64,204  - $100,654 plus an earned doctoral bonus of $3,210.20. Depending on the entry step, the faculty member advances one-step each year and has the potential to reach the current maximum step of $128,134, depending on the educational level attained. Starting salary is commensurate with academic preparation and full-time related, paid experience. In addition to salary, each full-time employee participates in a "cafeteria style" health and welfare benefits program.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Evidence of two (2) out of the four (4) Cluster Hire characteristics
• Commitment to the community college mission.
• An understanding of the implications a Hispanic-Serving designation suggests for institutional, departmental, and instructional practices.
• An understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of racially and/or ethnically minoritized students within Higher Education shape patterns of participation and outcomes within the classroom.
• Evidence of working effectively with racially and/or ethnically diverse populations.
• Evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of students with different ability statuses (e.g. physical and/or learning)
• An understanding of anti-racist and culturally-responsive pedagogical practices which honor and respect what students bring to the classroom and uses students’ prior knowledge and/or lived experiences to inform instruction.
• Evidence of working effectively with post-traditional students
• Professional library experience, preferably an academic library.
• Experience in working with students or patrons from diverse cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, academic, and disability backgrounds, with a wide variance of
• information-seeking skills and technological competence.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the implications of the Hispanic-Serving designation
• for institutional, departmental, and instructional practices.
• Fluent in Spanish (verbal and written).
• Demonstrated experience providing vision and leadership in coordinating outreach efforts and leading a library in intentional design of programming and partnerships with a focus on inclusivity and equity.
• Knowledge of various social media platforms and their use in campus outreach and engagement.
• Experience using photo and graphic design software and tools, and creating and maintaining blogs, videos, screencasts, and audio podcasts, and/or other web technologies.
• Experience maintaining a library print and online collection, including weeding outdated materials and selecting culturally relevant materials which support student success.
• Willingness to engage in reflective practice and improvement of one’s instructional, relational, and library practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.
• Experience teaching library research and information literacy in face-to-face and/or online environments, and familiarity with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and critical pedagogy.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environment and collaborate with multiple and varying departmental units across the community college campus.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Candidates must possess the minimum qualifications for the discipline as approved by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and defined in the Minimum Qualifications for Faculty and Administrators in California Community Colleges handbook.

Master’s degree in library science, or library and information science, OR
Possess a combination of education and experience that is at least the equivalent to all of the above.  Candidates making an application on the basis of equivalency must submit an Application for Equivalency in addition to all other required material.

Evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, culture, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.

If the title of your degree as stated on your transcripts DOES NOT EXACTLY MATCH one of the degree titles listed in the minimum qualifications listed above, you must request an equivalency review and submit conclusive supporting documents at the time of application. Those documents include a completed SBCC Equivalency Crosswalk (Download PDF reader) and a narrative synopsis of your educational background justifying equivalency.