Adjunct - Reference/Instruction Librarian

Adjunct- Reference and Instruction Librarian

This posting is part of an ongoing recruitment effort. Applications are accepted year-round, and qualified candidates will be contacted as positions become available.

The Johnnie Mae Berry Library at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College is seeking applicants for a part-time reference and instruction librarian. Our librarians help students develop skills needed for finding, evaluating, and integrating credible academic resources into their assignments. This is an onsite position located at Cincinnati State's Main Campus in the Clifton neighborhood.

Essential Duties:

• Provide in-person and virtual research assistance
• Teach in-person and virtual instruction sessions
• Create and maintain multimedia learning objects and web resources, including video tutorials and static guides.
• Assist with collection management
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master''s Degree in Library Science (will consider qualified candidate enrolled in an ALA-approved program within 15 credit hours of completion)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating multimedia learning objects, including video and static tutorials
• Experience with basic HTMLhtml and CSS for use in Springshare products (e.g., LibGuides) and other web resources

Desired Competencies:

• Innovation: Seeks out and incorporates new methods and principles. Demonstrates strong technology skills and a willingness to learn new skills quickly.
• Professionalism: Courtesy and collegiality in changing environments. Interacts respectfully. Seeks, accepts, and incorporates feedback and direction. Flexible, friendly, reliable, and able to establish rapport with faculty, staff, and students. Handles and responds to concerns, complaints, and challenging situations. Excellent oral and written communication which foster positive relationships and partnerships.
• Project management: Effective time management, organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance priorities, working independently and in teams.
• Decision-making: Demonstrated ability and confidence to exercise good judgement.

Work hours:

• Typical work week is 20-25 hours per week, not to exceed 29 hours. Schedules are set each semester.
• Flexibility is highly desired as the preferred candidate may be asked to work earlier or later hours depending on staffing and instruction needs.

Compensation: $25/hour

Contractual Affiliation: N/A

Exempt Classification: Non-Exempt

Status: Part time/Adjunct

Cincinnati State is an E-Verify employer:

If you''re hired, you must complete a Form I-9, which verifies your identity and your legal right to work in the U.S.

You''ll need to provide original, acceptable documents-no photocopies-to complete the I-9 process.

A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: USCIS I-9 website

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT

The institution declares that it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.

The institution declares that its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.

The institution declares its commitment to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.

The institution declares it is committed to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.

The institution declares that its duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals'' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.