Librarian, Academic;

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Austin Community College employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment. –AR 4.0300.01

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college’s mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting

Title:

Librarian, Academic (Hourly)

Job Description

Summary:

Provides ACC Campus Library Services reference services to ACC students, faculty and staff, including in person, phone, email and library chat, as needed.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Provides ACC Campus Library Services reference services to ACC students, faculty and staff, including in person, phone, email and library chat.
• Works with other ACC Library Services and primary campus library faculty and staff, maintaining records and statistical data and, as assigned, collection maintenance, subject bibliography, information literacy support, web or wiki page maintenance, special projects, and reports.
• Participates in critical record keeping practices including using reference desk software designed to gather student learning outcome data.

Knowledge

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Customer service skills.
• Library principles and practices in an academic setting.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Ability to maintain an established work schedule.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of constituent information.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective, collegial workplace relationships.
• Ability to communicate orally, in writing and electronically, in a concise and effective manner.

Technology Skills

• Proficiency in using PCs, office productivity software, knowledge of electronic information resources, the Internet and wikis, laptops, iPads, and general office equipment
• Expertise with print and electronic information and reference resources in an academic environment.
• Proficiency in using office productivity software, internet search tools, wikis, iPads, laptops.

Preferred Work Experience

• Experience providing reference services to community college, university, or high school students.

Required Education

• Master's degree in Library Science from an ALA- accredited institution.

Licenses/Certifications;
Other

• Reliable transportation may be required for working at multiple campus locations. Employees moving among campuses may get reimbursed for travel.

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in an library environment.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, kneeling, pushing and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 30 pounds.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working…