Assistant Professor – Instruction and Strategies Librarian

Position Overview

This tenure‑track librarian will focus on library open strategies and offer library instruction, including providing strategic direction across the library with open technologies, open research, open education and pedagogy, and scholarly communication. As a member of the library instruction department, the candidate will offer credited and embedded instruction to students, staff, and faculty, and contribute scholarship and service.

• Facilitate conversations across the library organization and campus community about open strategies, keep up with open trends, and be engaged internationally and nationally about partnership opportunities around open efforts, pursuing such opportunities when appropriate.
• Lead the MSU Library in its efforts to improve affordable course material options, including leading an established OER program.
• Focus attention on developments in open software and systems, including open Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
• Provide instruction and instructional support to students, staff, and faculty through research consultations, library instruction sessions, workshops, and/or credit‑bearing courses.
• Contribute scholarship and service in accordance with tenure expectations.

• Master’s degree in library and information science (MLS/MLIS) from an ALA‑accredited