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Faculty, Head Librarian (Round Rock Campus)

Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

  • Reflects the diversity of our community

  • Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

  • Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

  • Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

  • Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

  • Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Faculty, Head Librarian (Round Rock Campus)

Job Description Summary:

To manage and supervise Library Services faculty, staff, operations, budget, facility and resources of campus library, and to provide reference services and information literacy instruction services to students and faculty.

Job Description:

Principal Responsibilities and Duties

1.  Provides basic reference services, online services, and selective dissemination of information needed for students, faculty, administration, staff, and the community.
2.  Participates in Library Services (LS) collection development.
3.  Serves on the Library Leadership Team, and participates in the Library Services, Teaching and Learning Excellence (TLED), and college-wide committees and meetings.
4.  Develops and maintains library policies, procedures, and services, and may coordinate college-wide library responsibilities; including reference, off-campus/extension services, information literacy, collection management, access services, library technology, and web presence.
5.  Participates in subject specialty credentialing programs.
6.  Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with colleagues in the college, local, state, regional, and national library and academic communities.
7.  Coordinates library activities with community agencies as appropriate.
8.  Manage library services functions, including selection, supervision, development and evaluation of Library Services faculty and staff; the coordination of library functions and services with other library, TLED, campus and college activities and services.
9.  Makes recommendations, reports, and actively participates in strategic planning, budget preparation, expenditure, and assessment.  Gathers and reports data on Library Services functions and services.
10.  Participates in facilities design, and management, and Library Services public relations.
11.  Participates in the development and delivery of the LS information literacy instruction and library instructional program.
12.  Performs other related tasks as assigned by the Dean, and/or Associate Vice President, TLED.

Technology

Demonstrated proficiency using computer applications, and knowledge of digital information resources, the internet, a knowledge of online, electronic resources and classroom or other current learning technologies for effective teaching to ensure student success at the community college level.

Required Education

  • Master's degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution.

Other Requirements

Licenses, Certifications, etc.

  • Reliable transportation for travel in the Austin area - ACC District as required.

Application Requirements

Document Requirements
 
When you apply, you will need to upload the following documents to your application:

  • Cover letter - Explaining interest in the position.

  • Curriculum Vitae or Resume - Your most recently updated C.V. or Resume.

Official transcripts and/or certifications will need to be sent directly from your institution to:
              
Austin Community College - HLC
Attention: E.M. Breedlove, Employment Manager
6101 Highland Campus Drive, Bldg. 3000, Suite 3.2224, Austin, TX 78752
 
Photocopies of transcripts and transcripts stamped "issued to student" are not accepted.
 

Criminal Background Check

Pre-employment criminal background checks are required for all staff and faculty positions.

Working Conditions

  • Ability to communicate effectively with students, faculty and staff.

  • Work is routinely performed in a library setting.

  • Able to push a fully loaded book cart (50lbs), and place and remove books from shelves.

  • Occasional lifting of 30 pounds of books in a book carton or book bag.

  • Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing and pulling, and manual dexterity.

  • Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Location

Primary work location subject to change. Work schedule is primarily on site and may include remote or hybrid opportunities.

Salary Range
$73,772 - $101,008 (12 Month Contract Base Salary)

Position to be filled for the start of the Fall 2023 semester.

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

June 4, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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