Subject Liaison Librarian

Description

The University of Chicago Library empowers users with extensive expertise, innovative programs, diverse spaces, and deep and rich collections. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive community, enhancing access to scholarly resources, advancing digital scholarship, engaging locally and globally, and excelling in a changing environment.  

We are seeking three innovative service-oriented Librarians in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences to work collaboratively with colleagues across the Library to provide research and instructional support, develop physical and digital scholarly collections, and support new fields of scholarship that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. These positions are located within the Division of Research and Learning Services which oversees the Library’s liaison librarian program across the disciplines, as well as the departments of Teaching and Academic Engagement, the East Asian Collection, and the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. The ideal candidates possess skills and abilities to help transform instruction, outreach, reference and collections and are creative in solving problems in a collaborative environment. 

Each Librarian will develop electronic and print collections to support scholarship and teaching, provide advanced reference and research consultations, maintain online research guides, and provide library instruction in their assigned liaison areas. The Librarians work closely with colleagues to support students and faculty in interdisciplinary research and teaching to support evolving needs across the University, and contribute to the Library’s general reference, instruction and outreach program. Collection development and management at the University of Chicago Library takes place in a highly collegial manner, and the Librarians will consult and collaborate with other colleagues in building and maintaining collections. The Librarians will also engage in community focused initiatives and activities, through collaborations with partners from campus offices and programs. All Librarians participate in departmental staff meetings, and, as appropriate, in other Library and University group activities, including committee assignments. 

In addition, the Librarians will work with colleagues across the Library and across campus to provide domain expertise in support of the Library’s digital scholarship services. The successful candidate is expected to develop expertise in one or more areas of current and emerging importance in academic libraries, for example, research data services and open science. 

See details for each Librarian below: 

Humanities Librarian  

The Humanities Librarian serves as the primary liaison for the Department of Music, and Theater and Performance Studies. The Music Collection supports programs in music history, music theory, ethnomusicology, and composition. Its traditional strength has been in criticism, histories, and scholarly editions of Western music, while recently there has been greater emphasis on collecting materials for the study of non-western music and music theory, as well as scores of contemporary music. There is both a strong circulating collection of recordings and books on jazz and blues, as well as popular music and a Chicago Jazz Archive in the Hannah Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. Collections in theate