Research & Instruction Librarian – St. Paul’s School – Ohrstrom Library; Concord, NH

Status:Exempt, 12 months
Department:Library
Reports to:Library Director

Summary :The Research & Instruction Librarian serves as the Library’s liaison to support faculty, student, and staff engagement with Ohrstrom Library’s diverse and in-depth digital and print holdings, as well as leads the Library staff in providing innovative and user-centered reference and instruction services. This staff member designs and delivers an innovative instruction program to best serve a diverse student population and develops strategies to introduce community members to Library services.

Additionally, the Research & Instruction Librarian is responsible for managing the Library’s vast digital holdings, including promoting the collections to the community. This position requires at least one evening shift; typically, the library is open until 9:30 pm. The Research & Outreach Librarian also serves the St. Paul’s Advanced Studies Program in the summer.

• Designing and delivering an innovative instruction program to best serve a diverse student population, which includes:
  • Designing and conducting library instruction and orientation sessions.
  • Creating research guides to mirror instruction class.
  • Instructing individual library users on use of print and electronic Providing research consultations.
  • Participating in Library, institutional, and outside professional committees, conferences and other scholarly and developmental opportunities.
• Teaching group library instruction classes on research strategies, source evaluation, academic integrity, citation, and other information literacy topics
• Establishing collaborative and supportive partnerships with faculty in order to ensure that library services and instruction are relevant to curricular needs.
• Creating research guides, instruction resources, digital materials, videos/tutorials, and making those resources accessible to students, faculty, and staff.
• Working with other library staff members to design and implement outreach initiatives to increase faculty and student engagement with the academic services and resources of the library.
• Developing and sustaining collaborative relationships with faculty, students, and staff in support of faculty and student engagement with the academic services and resources of the library.
• Working with other library staff members to provide frequent, timely, and appealing communication to faculty and students about academic services and resources.

• Selecting, managing and maintaining the library’s digital collections, keeping current knowledge of digital collection trends and offerings, and working closely with faculty for digital collection development.
• Setting up database trials and collecting and analyzing usage to support purchase, renewal, and cancellation decisions.
• Publicizing, teaching and incorporating new digital collections into the curriculum.

• Making recommendations for the development of new research services.
• Training and supporting library staff with research tools, skills, and services.
• Troubleshooting patron connection problems with resources.
• Providing research help to all library users seeking information in person or remotely, using print and digital collections.
• Developing strategies to introduce library reference services to all students, particularly new students.

The following responsibilities common to all staff are superimposed upon the work outlined in the above job description. Please note that while each Ohrstrom Library employee staffs the service desk, they are required to multi-task, e.g. attending to immediate patron and building needs while simultaneously performing a wide range of position-specific work. Service desk responsibilities include:

• Assisting…