Dear colleagues,
Please consider applying, or forward as appropriate, to this position at one of the top comprehensives universities in the American Midwest.
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Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is seeking a creative and savvy librarian to provide leadership in ensuring effective and positive experiences for all who use the library. The successful candidate will lead the library web team, participate in information literacy instruction, and identify and recommend user experience best practices. Responsibilities include:
- Work closely with the systems librarian and serve as the primary liaison with campus web administration personnel.
- Chair the library web team and facilitate changes as needed to the library website from internal requests and resulting from external CMS changes.
- Design and conduct qualitative and quantitative needs assessments/usability studies to assess website user needs, preferences, and trends using data-gathering tools (i.e. Google Analytics, focus groups, etc.).
- Develop, manage, and troubleshoot those parts of other library systems (i.e. discovery tools, library guides, digital repositories) where they interact with the library website including code and API development.
- Provide technical support for peripheral applications such as social media, reference statistics database, reference chat, and others.
- Collaborate with the information literacy instruction and instructional technology librarians to teach a significant number of face-to-face information literacy sessions based on best practices drawn from UWL user experiences.
- Collaborate with other library units to identify and recommend user experience best practices, i.e. work with the director on space planning initiatives, and work with other units to develop guidelines for consistent and effective messaging throughout the library.
- Stay current with trends related to user centered design and user experience best practices for all areas in which patrons interact with the library.
- Participate in reference services and collection development in assigned subjects.
- Participate in collegial governance, and campus and professional activities.
Murphy Library is integral to student success at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Located in the heart of campus, the library provides a dynamic and diverse learning environment centered on the core principles of service, stewardship, information literacy and equity of access. Librarians have faculty status and are members of the library department, which is a peer-reviewed academic department. Murphy Library is administered by the library director who functions as an academic dean.
Required Qualifications:
- ALA-accredited MLS/MLIS or equivalent international degree in library or information science
- Demonstrated experience with web development, user experience design, and classroom instruction
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional experience working in an academic library environment
- Experience managing, organizing, and building web content using information architecture principles
- Experience with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, XML, PHP, JavaScript, or similar
- Understanding how user experience concepts and best practices can be used to meet student information needs in all areas in which patrons interact with the library
- Experience conducting web user research to understand user behavior, and using that information to inform web design
- Experience teaching information literacy concepts in higher education
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively collaborate with faculty/staff, colleagues, and students
- Experience working in a peer-governed academic department
- Evidence of professional growth potential through publication, professional activities, or other contributions to the field
Degrees from international institutions will be accepted under the following conditions:
a. The degree has been recognized by the ALA as equivalent, or;
b. The degree has been evaluated at the candidate's expense by a U.S. credentialing service recommended by the ALA and received by the Search & Screen chair by February 8, 2016.
Salary and Rank: Competitive salary for a full-time, 9-month tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Partial summer contracts may also be available.
Anticipated Starting Date: August 29, 2015.
First consideration will be given to applications received by February 8, 2016.
Note: Electronic submission of application materials is required. For additional information about this position and to apply, please visit https://employment.uwlax.edu/
Please contact the Search and Screen Chair if you have a special need/accommodation to aid your participation in our hiring process.
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The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UW-La Crosse) provides a challenging, dynamic, and diverse learning environment in which the entire university community is fully engaged in supporting student success. Grounded in the liberal arts, UW-La Crosse fosters curiosity and life-long learning through collaboration, innovation, and the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge. Acknowledging and respecting the contributions of all, UW-La Crosse is a regional academic and cultural center that prepares students to take their place in a constantly changing world community.
UW-La Crosse's diversity and inclusion efforts are guided by our adherence to Inclusive Excellence. We define Inclusive Excellence as "... our active, intentional and ongoing commitment to bridge differences with understanding and respect so all can thrive." The goals of Inclusive Excellence are to increase the retention of diverse faculty, staff and students while encouraging a campus climate that is inviting and welcoming to all. UW-La Crosse strives to promote acceptance of all facets of diversity from racial/ethnic diversity to diversity of thought and experience. UW-La Crosse is a 2014 recipient of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. UW-La Crosse is proud to be one of only 83 recipients of this national honor recognizing our commitment to diversity and inclusion.
UW-La Crosse has appeared prominently on the U.S. News & World Report list of "America's Best Colleges" for more than a decade and is ranked consistently as one of the top institutions in the Midwest. With a student population of roughly 10,500, the university offers 91 undergraduate programs in at least 30 disciplines and 25 graduate programs in three colleges: Liberal Studies, Science and Health, and Business Administration, including the School of Arts & Communication and the School of Education. There are 502 full-time faculty and instructional academic staff, 76 percent of whom hold terminal degrees. UW-La Crosse boasts a retention rate (freshmen returning as sophomores) of 86 percent, graduation rate (degree within six years) of 70 percent, and is among only 12 institutions cited nationally by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities for its success in linking campus culture and university leadership to outstanding graduation rates.
The UW-La Crosse campus is nestled in a residential area of the City of La Crosse (pop. 52,000) located in western Wisconsin. The area, known as the 7 Rivers Region, is famous for its exceptional natural beauty which includes the Mississippi River on one side, majestic bluffs on the other, and views of rolling farmland and forested valleys in between. Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top ten "Best Places to Live" in 2009, La Crosse is one of the most scenic places in mid-America. Abundant water, woodlands and varying terrain provide ample opportunities for year-round outdoor recreation. Only a couple of hours from Minneapolis or Madison, La Crosse enjoys the affordability and charm of small town living with larger city benefits. Three colleges, two world-class medical institutions, the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, a restored nineteenth century downtown business district, and a number of galleries and art centers have made La Crosse a regional center for culture, entertainment, medical care, shopping, sports and recreation.
UW-La Crosse is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool, and we encourage applications from persons with varied backgrounds and perspectives. In support of the Wisconsin Veteran Employment Initiative we encourage veterans and veterans with disabilities to explore employment opportunities at UW-La Crosse.
As a prospective UW-La Crosse employee, you have a right to obtain a copy of campus safety and security information (Clery Act) for this institution. You may review this information athttp://www.uwlax.edu/Police/Clery-report/.
Employment will require a criminal background check. A pending criminal charge or conviction will not necessarily disqualify an applicant. In compliance with the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act, UW-La Crosse does not discriminate on the basis of arrest or conviction record.
Best regards,
Catherine Lavallée-Welch
Director
Murphy Library
Director
Murphy Library
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601 USA
1631 Pine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601 USA
608-785-8805
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