The James C Kirkpatrick Library of the University of Central Missouri invites applications for a 9-month, non-tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to serve as liaison librarian to the university’s STEM programs. The successful candidate will:
· Teach the information literacy course Truth, Lies & Information Management or a comparable credit-bearing course.
· Teach information literacy to students in assigned areas through embedded librarianship.
· Initiate and maintain contacts with faculty members in assigned areas for the purpose of curriculum mapping, instructional development, and collection management.
· Provide research consultations to the UCM community to support scholarship in a variety of contexts.
· Create learning tools to connect students and faculty with the information they need.
· Develop, present, and promote library workshops.
· Manage collections in assigned areas in all formats including, but not limited to, the development of the collection, periodic review of collection content, and alignment of the collection to the UCM curriculum.
· Coordinate library-related STEM program accreditation/re-accreditation reporting requirements as determined by the accrediting body, including gathering data, contributions to the written report and meeting with accreditors as needed.
· Active engagement in UCM activities supporting students, faculty, scholarship, and university-wide governance (e.g. library groups, faculty senate committee or administrative committee participation).
· Participate in library activities, operations, decision making, and governance as appropriate.