Faculty, Head Librarian (Rio Grande Campus)

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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 (Rio Grande 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 & Duties

• 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.

• Makes recommendations, reports, and actively participates in strategic planning, budget preparation, expenditure, and assessment.  Gathers and reports data on Library Services functions and services.

• Participates in facilities design, and management, and Library Services public relations.

• Provides basic reference services, online services, and selective dissemination of information needed for students, faculty, administration, staff, and the community.

• Participates in Library Services (LS) collection development.

• Serves on the Library Leadership Team, and participates in the Library Services, Teaching and Learning Excellence (TLED), and college-wide committees and meetings.

• 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.

• Participates in subject specialty credentialing programs.

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with colleagues in the college, local, state, regional, and national library and academic communities.

• Coordinates library activities with community agencies as appropriate.

• Participates in the development and delivery of the LS information literacy instruction and library instructional program.

• Performs other related tasks as assigned by the Dean, and/or Associate Vice President, TLED.

Technology

• Demonstrated proficiency using