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Health Sciences Library, Research and Education Librarian

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Loyola University Chicago
Location
Maywood-Health Sciences Campus
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Job Title:

Health Sciences Library, Research and Education Librarian

Position Title:

Health Sciences Library, Research and Education Librarian

Job Category:

University Faculty

Job Type:

Full-Time

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Campus:

Maywood-Health Sciences Campus

Location Code:

LIBRARY HSD (06800A)

Department Name:

LIBRARY HSC

Is this split and/or fully grant funded? :

No

Duties and Responsibilities:

Salary Range: $55,000-$65,000
Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/

Loyola University Chicago Libraries seeks applications for the position of Research and Education Librarian, based at the Health Sciences Library. This librarian will be the newest member of a small and hardworking team and provide research, education, and patient care information services to students, faculty, staff, and practitioners at Loyola University Chicago’s Health Sciences Campus, located in Maywood, IL. This is an open-rank library faculty appointment. At Loyola, Librarian is a special faculty designation with opportunities for promotion. The successful candidate will show evidence of teamwork, creativity, initiative, flexibility, and ability to work with diverse populations.
Reporting to the Director, Health Sciences Library, the Research and Education librarian will have the following responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain relationships with the faculty, staff, practitioners and students at the Health Sciences Campus.
  • Provide instruction based upon pedagogical best practices and collaboratively design instruction.
  • Provide instruction and outreach online and in-person.
  • Customize curriculum to the needs of attendees and instructors.
  • Conduct reference interviews with patrons (face-to-face, telephone, virtually) and provides timely information.
  • Perform literature searches in subject relevant databases for faculty, staff, and practitioners.
  • Create and maintain research guides.
  • Create and edit online promotional materials.
  • Contribute to selection and de-selection of materials.
  • Represent the Health Sciences Library within the library and university community.
  • Develop expertise by participating in relevant conferences, committees, workshops, and seminars.

Qualifications:

Required qualifications

  • Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from an ALA-accredited program or equivalent degree.
  • Experience in a health sciences library or STEM discipline.
  • Experience working with a diverse population.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Experience working collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
  • Demonstrated experience developing knowledge and skills in other disciplines.
  • Familiarity with citation management software.

Preferred qualifications
  • Experience providing reference in a library setting.
  • Second degree in a STEM discipline, such as public health, nursing, medicine, biology, chemistry, etc.
  • Experience with library discovery tools and systems, especially Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo and Springshare products.
  • Creating instruction for the health or medical disciplines.
  • Knowledge about or experience with the evidence synthesis process.
  • Expertise using and teaching EndNote.

Physical Demands:

None

Working Conditions:

None

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:

Required qualifications

  • Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from an ALA-accredited program or equivalent degree.
  • Experience in a health sciences library or STEM discipline.
  • Experience working with a diverse population.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Experience working collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
  • Demonstrated experience developing knowledge and skills in other disciplines.
  • Familiarity with citation management software.

Preferred qualifications
  • Experience providing reference in a library setting.
  • Second degree in a STEM discipline, such as public health, nursing, medicine, biology, chemistry, etc.
  • Experience with library discovery tools and systems, especially Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo and Springshare products.
  • Creating instruction for the health or medical disciplines.
  • Knowledge about or experience with the evidence synthesis process.
  • Expertise using and teaching EndNote.

Open Date:

01/23/2025

Salary Range:

$55,000-$65,000

Additional Salary Information:

The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on a range of factors including, but not limited to the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including years since terminal degree, training, and field or discipline; rank at hire; budget availability; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Applicants should submit a current curriculum vitae and a letter of interest to www.careers.luc.edu. Please provide the names and email addresses of three professional references. References will not be contacted immediately but may be at subsequent points in the review process, with the candidate’s permission.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For full consideration, applications should be received by February 17, 2025.

Please direct inquiries to the chair of the search committee:
Elizabeth Huggins
Research and Education Librarian
Health Sciences Library – Loyola University Chicago
2160 S. First Ave.
Maywood, IL 60153
Ehuggins@luc.edu

As a Jesuit, Catholic institution of higher education, we seek candidates who will contribute to our strategic plan to deliver a Transformative Education in the Jesuit tradition. To learn more about Loyola University Chicago’s mission, candidates should consult our website at www.luc.edu/mission/. For information about the university’s focus on transformative education, they should consult our website at www.luc.edu/transformativeed.

About Loyola University Chicago:

About Loyola University Chicago

Founded in 1870, Loyola University Chicago is the largest of twenty-seven Jesuit colleges and universities (https://ajcunet.edu/) and one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States. Loyola enrolls approximately 17,000 students, including over 11,000 undergraduates, across its three campuses in the Chicago metropolitan area: Lake Shore Campus on Chicago’s north side; Water Tower Campus near the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago; and Health Sciences Campus in the western suburb of Maywood. The University has over 1,600 full-time and part-time faculty. It also operates a study abroad center – the John Felice Rome Center (JFRC) – in Rome, Italy. Loyola offers programs in a variety of disciplines through thirteen schools and colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences (founded in 1870), the School of Law (1908), the Stritch School of Medicine (1909), the School of Social Work (1914), the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (1914), the Graduate School (1915), the Quinlan School of Business (1922), the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (1935), the School of Education (1969), the School of Communication (2008), Arrupe College (2014) which operates as a two-year college and confers associates degrees, the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health (2019), and the School of Environmental Sustainability (2020).

As one of the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic universities, Loyola University Chicago fosters a transformative cultural experience that honors diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to not only recruiting, but also retaining a diverse, mission driven workforce and enabling a culture of inclusiveness in an environment that values service excellence, stewardship, personal well-being, and professional development for all of our employees. Loyola University Chicago supports its staff and faculty with a wide array of affordable, comprehensive and competitive benefits centered on health and wellness, financial security, equity, and work-life balance. We actively seek those who wish to join our faculty, staff, and students in a community of diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds supporting our Jesuit mission and striving toward the same goal of being persons for and with others.

The Loyola University Chicago community acknowledges its location on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires (the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes) and a place of trade with other tribes, including the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Menominee, Sauk, and Meskwaki. We recognize the tragic legacy of colonization, genocide, and oppression that still impacts Native American lives today. As a Jesuit university, we affirm our commitment to issues of social responsibility and justice. We further recognize our responsibility to understand, teach, and respect the past and present realities of local Native Americans and their continued connection to this land.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Loyola University Chicago is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer with a strong commitment to hiring for our mission and diversifying our faculty. The University seeks to increase the diversity of its professoriate, workforce and undergraduate and graduate student populations because broad diversity – including a wide range of individuals who contribute to a robust academic environment – is critical to achieving the University’s mission of excellence in education, research, educational access and services in an increasingly diverse society. Therefore, in holistically accessing the many qualifications of each applicant, we would factor favorably an individual’s record of conduct that includes experience with an array of diverse perspectives, as well as a wide variety of different educational, research or other work activities. Among other qualifications, we would also factor favorably experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic career or degrees.

Quick Link for Posting:

https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/30810

Job Number:

8150653

Organizational Location:

PROVOST

Number of Vacancies:

1

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Organization

Working at Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic University and the only one located in Chicago. Shaped by our city and our Jesuit traditions, Loyola University Chicago offers students an educational environment unmatched for its diversity of thought and experience.

Loyola University Chicago comprises four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to eleven schools and colleges: Arrupe College, Quinlan School of Business, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Stritch School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Communication, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Work, and Graduate School. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois.

With three campuses spread throughout the greater Chicago area, students have access to hundreds of cultural institutions as well as thousands of internships and networking opportunities with the city's Fortune 500 companies. Study-abroad programs at our Rome and Beijing Centers provide engagement with the global community and economy.

While rigorous programs of research and study are one hallmark of a Jesuit education, we're not just preparing students for a career, we're preparing them for life. We challenge our students to learn broadly, to think critically, to serve generously, to lead with integrity, to respect diversity. We come from all faiths and ethnic and economic backgrounds, with a common purpose of building a better society.

Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications, and named the University a "best value" in its 2008 rankings.

Our faculty take a person-centered approach to education. They’re not just here to teach students what they know, they’re here to teach them to think critically and creatively and to reach for their own discoveries.

More facts about Loyola University Chicago:

  • Total enrollment: 15,902
  • 80+ undergraduate majors and 80+ minors
  • 140+ graduate, professional, and graduate-level certificate programs
  • More than 4,000 faculty and staff members 
  • 14:1 Undergraduate student/faculty ratio 
  • 150,000 alumni; 85,000 in Chicago 
  • One of only eight percent of all American colleges and universities to have a Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapter

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