Assistant Librarian, Access Services

Job Title

Assistant Librarian, Access Services

Agency

Texas A&M University - Central Texas

Department

Library Services

Proposed Minimum Salary

$4,839.42 monthly

Job Location

Killeen, Texas

Job Type

Faculty

Job Description

The Access Services Librarian will coordinate daily circulation services, including tracking course reserves, documenting user borrowing standards, and facilitating collection access for onsite and digital users. Additional duties will include individualized instruction at the reference desk, service through academic or library committees, and adherence to faculty librarian scholarship standards. The librarian may oversee a small number of part-time staff or student worker direct reports and complete basic administrative tasks.

A Presidential Proclamation issued on September 19, 2025, imposes a $100,000 fee on all new H‑1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025, and Texas A&M University–Central Texas will not pay this fee. Additionally, a moratorium issued by Governor Abbott on January 27, 2026, restricts the filing of new H‑1B petitions unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly, if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate. Applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer.

Responsibilities:

• Manage to 2-4 part-time employees in access services.

• Create access services schedules for the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.

• Provide training for circulation services, including item lending, lamination, comb binding, printing, scanning, and other related tasks.

• Develop access services policies and procedures.

• Maintain collection statistics for common access services, such as annual lending, gate counts, and request types.

• Maintain circulation policy and permission settings in the Alma LMS.

• Staff the reference desk for 8 to 12 hours per week, split across two or more shifts, including one weekday evening.

• Develop collections in assigned subject fields that could include biology, chemistry, criminal justice, sociology, business, or other areas, depending on skill set and in partnership with faculty.

• Manage and coordinate library displays.

• Assist with library outreach and marketing, as needed, to help the department connect with campus and community members. Events may take place on or off campus.

• Assist with library instruction or public service events, as needed.

Faculty Research and Service:

• Serves as a member of committees in the library and the university. 

• Remains current in the library discipline and assigned liaison areas.

• Publishes chapters, book reviews, or other peer-reviewed written content for theoretical or practical aspects of the library field.

• Participates in conferences and professional organizations.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to design a variety of online and in-person general and subject-specific instruction sessions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills. 

 Minimum Qualifications

• A Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree, or another equivalent from an American Library Association (ALA)-accredited university or college.
• Must be self-motivated, creative, and innovative with excellent interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Second master’s degree, with a preference for the hard sciences, computer science, social sciences, or business.

• A bachelor’s degree in the hard sciences, computer science, social sciences, or business.

• Two years of experience in a library, with a preference for academic libraries.

• Experience working in access services or an adjacent role at a library, with more weight given for two or more years of access services experience.  

• Experience managing employees, especially student workers or part-time library employees. More weight will be given for management in the context of access services.

• Experience providing library instruction.

• Experience working in reference at an academic library.

• Experience managing circulation policy and permission settings in the library's ILS (Alma) or a similar ILS.

                                      

Salary: $58,073.00

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Supervision of Others: This position may supervise other employees.

Work Location: This is not a remote position. The selected candidate will be required to work on campus.

 

To Apply:

Please apply directly on our Texas A&M University-Central Texas Job Site. Applicants should submit a cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three professional references. Transcripts should be uploaded in the attachment section of the application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.