Experiential Learning Librarian

Salary:
Minimum salary: $60,000, commensurate with education and experience

Created:
July 22, 2025

This position is a tenure-track, twelve-month faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Librarian / Assistant Professor or Associate Librarian / Associate Professor. The Experiential Learning Librarian will join our newly created Experiential Learning (EL) department and be responsible for the creation, implementation, and coordination of the department’s instructional program. The department oversees the Libraries’ new makerspace, XR studios, visualization lab, audio/visual studios, and digital media lab and works to provide dynamic services, spaces, and technologies that enable learning, discovery, and research through workshops, programs, and activities for students and faculty.

EL also collaborates with other library departments to support immersive experiential learning initiatives and programs. The librarian will act as a liaison to campus, actively seeking new partnerships and collaborations while working with faculty, students, library departments, and other stakeholders to develop and deliver programming that supports academic and creative endeavors.

• Design and deliver engaging instruction sessions, both in-person and online, using creative and emerging technologies such as 3D fabrication/printing, audio/video production, augmented and virtual reality. Provide project-based and experiential learning curriculum development support to faculty.
• In coordination with the Director of Experiential Learning, develop and implement program goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with library departments and partners across campus to develop experiential learning curricula and programming that positively impact faculty and students’ academic and professional success.
• Develop programming on creative technologies and innovation, including regularly scheduled workshops and instruction for courses, in partnership with EL departmental personnel and other library departments.
• Coordinate the creation of instructional materials, outcomes, and activities, including asynchronous teaching materials, to raise awareness of library services, equipment, experiential learning concepts, and maker literacies.
• Assess program effectiveness and make recommendations for program changes.
• Identify, recommend, and implement new services that support creativity and innovation in academic and creative endeavors.
• Develop and participate in outreach activities on campus and in the community to demonstrate experiential learning space capabilities and introduce tools, technologies, and services.
• Support fellow library personnel related to pedagogy, especially using creative technologies.
• Keep abreast of current and emerging creative technologies and make implementation recommendations as appropriate.
• Supervise a Graduate Assistant; potential to supervise additional employees in the future.
• Serve as the primary liaison to UARK faculty, students, community groups, and other stakeholders to increase the impact of experiential learning spaces in the libraries.

Along with performance, responsibilities include research, creative work, and service in keeping with the faculty requirements of the University of Arkansas. This position reports to the Director of Experiential Learning & Physics Library.

• Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent by the time of appointment.
• Demonstrated experience working in a library setting.
• Demonstrated teaching experience.
• Experience with creative and maker technologies (virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, media production, data visualization, digital humanities, etc.) relevant to students and researchers.

• Demonstrated ability to plan, design, implement, and manage new and ongoing services and programs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of or willingness to learn experiential learning theory and practice.
• Experience teaching or knowledge of pedagogical methodologies for varied user groups.
• Experience developing effective outreach activities to promote a program or service.