Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Engage students:

• Assist in the use of library services and a range of print and electronic resources.
• Teach introductory, advanced, and specialized bibliographic instruction classes.
• Provide rigorous one-on-one research assistance for both undergraduate and graduate students.
• Curate a robust and relevant set of research guides for effective asynchronous student guidance.

Instructional Design:

• Integrate reference services into learning management systems.
• Design information literacy sessions and research assignments in collaboration with faculty.
• Develop, expand, and enrich both online and in-person library instruction for specific subjects.

Assessment:

• Gather data, analyze, and make recommendations to continually improve reference services and reference resources.

Collection Development:

• Evaluate print, electronic, and OER resources.
• Help optimize library collections by assessing needs, making recommendations for purchase, and regularly weeding to maintain a high-use collection.

Professional Development:

• Participate in professional development activities such as specialized training, professional conferences, webinars, and seminars.
• Introduce innovations and manage improvements to existing departmental programs and procedures.
• Monitor developments in the field of Information literacy and instructional design to remain current on effective strategies and best practices.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in library science/ information science from an ALA-accredited program.
• Two-plus years of work/teaching experience relevant to the position.

Interested applicants are asked to submit a resume and cover letter via the URL link:

Applicants who will enrich the diversity of the campus community are strongly encouraged to apply. Stonehill College is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.

About Stonehill College

Founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1948, Stonehill is a private Catholic college located just 22 miles from downtown Boston on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student to faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages its 2,400+ students in 80+ rigorous academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields. Faithful to the Holy Cross tradition in education, Stonehill College is committed to developing the moral, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social competencies of its students and seeks to build and sustain a campus community that embraces diversity and inclusion in its teaching, learning, living, and working. Stonehill values a diversity of persons, opinions, and cultural and religious perspectives. In fulfillment of its motto, Lux et Spes (“Light and Hope”), the College cultivates in its students the competence to think, act, and lead with courage towards creating a more just and compassionate world.

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