Library faculty
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Reference and Instruction Librarian.
Part-time faculty are paid on a lecture hour equivalent (LHE) basis. For library faculty, 1 LHE "Lecture Hour Equivalent" = 2.34 hours/week for 16 weeks. All part-time faculty start at the beginning pay rates, regardless of the level and type of experience obtained elsewhere. Those rates for the 2024-2025 academic year are $1191 /LHE for faculty without doctorates and $1262/LHE for faculty with doctorates...
Part-time faculty advance one step within the salary schedule with the successful completion of 2 fall & spring semesters where 3+ LHEs are taught in each semester.
Applicants must be strong communicators and effective classroom / reference facilitators who enjoy teaching/working in a student-centered environment.
Oakton especially values candidates committed to working in a culturally competent environment. Cultural competence integrates and transforms knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards, policies, practices, and attitudes used in appropriate cultural settings to increase the quality of services.
Applicants should be current and skilled in their use of evolving technologies, active in promoting critical thinking, and committed to challenging our students to be knowledgeable, ethical, and capable global citizens. Oakton seeks enthusiastic faculty who are committed to innovation in college-level teaching and learning, and interested in non-traditional delivery of instruction. The College expects faculty to be professionally competent, have strong leadership qualities, participate in professional development activities, and engage in institutional and departmental service.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide reference services to students in person, via chat, and by phone
- Prepare for and teach library information literacy "one-shot" classes
- Teach assigned student workshops on a variety of topics
- Meet with students to provide individual research assistance
- Create and maintain online research guides (libguides) as assigned
- Maintain records of appointments and reference interactions
- Professional librarian duties as assigned
- Participate in department meetings and comply with department decisions regarding instructional matters.
- Participate in department and institutional assessments of student learning and in department and institutional surveys.
- Comply with institutional procedures.
- Engage in professional development activities to maintain professional skills and currency in the profession
Job Requirements:
Master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association.
Preferred: Experience in an academic library, experience in the area for which the individual is being hired, e.g. cataloging, reference, etc. familiarity with online systems, familiarity with Springshare suite (for example LibGuides, LibAnswers, Libcal) a second Master's degree and online teaching experience, flexibility to work at either of our campuses (Des Plaines and Skokie) and remotely as scheduled, commitment to student-centered library service and culturally competent pedagogy
Additional Information:
Part-time faculty hires and assignments are coordinated by the department chairs.
Part-time faculty are hired on a semester-by-semester basis. A reasonable effort is made to assure the assignment of courses to more senior part-time faculty who are fully qualified by virtue of their education, training, work experience as related to current technology and pedagogical techniques, and who have had a history of successful performance at Oakton College.
All assignments are conditioned on sufficient enrollment. Once a course starts, the part time faculty member is expected to complete the course.
Please contact HR@oakton.edu if you have any questions or experience problems in submitting your application.
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