Director, Teaching, Learning, and Research Support

Title: Director, Teaching, Learning, and Research Support

Department: Library Materials

Duration:Indefinite

Employment Status: Exempt, Full-Time

Reporting to the College Librarian and Director of the Academic Commons, the Director of Teaching, Learning, and Research Support (TLRS) serves on the Library Leadership Team and leads the Library’s academic engagement with the College through teaching and learning, research support, faculty partnerships, and scholarly communication outreach and education. The Director supervises a team of subject librarians and oversees the department’s disciplinary collections funds and operations, ensuring that its work remains responsive to evolving curricular and research priorities.

The incumbent serves as the Library’s lead for translating changes in the scholarly information ecosystem into effective teaching, learning, and research support, working with Library colleagues, Special Collections and College Archives, and campus partners to strengthen student learning, faculty success, and the Library’s role as an academic partner.

• 35%
  - Management - Provides strategic and operational leadership for the Teaching, Learning, and Research Support department, supervising the team of subject librarians responsible for instruction, research support, faculty engagement, and discipline-informed collection development. Establishes priorities, allocates resources, develops performance expectations, and ensures effective coordination and continuity across the unit’s activities. Mentors librarians individually and as a team and support each librarian’s professional growth, including participation in professional development, research, and presentation opportunities suited to their experience.
  
  Develops and maintains departmental policies, guidelines, and standards of practice (e.g., for instruction, research consultations, and subject responsibilities); establishes goals and assessment measures for the department’s programs and services; and fosters a culture of assessment, innovation, and continuous improvement aligned with Library and institutional priorities.
  
  - (Essential)
• 20%
  - Teaching and Learning - Leads the Library’s teaching and learning programs, ensuring that they support student success and advance the College’s educational mission. Oversees the Library’s information literacy curriculum, instructional partnerships, research consultation services, and other teaching and learning initiatives. Ensures that the department collaborates effectively with faculty to integrate information literacy and related literacies (e.g., data and AI literacy) throughout the curriculum, including consultation on the development of research assignments, learning activities, and course design, as well as on the pedagogical use of the College’s learning management system and academic technologies.
  
  Leads assessment of the Library’s instructional and consultation programs and student learning outcomes in coordination with Library-wide assessment. Collaborates with colleagues in Special Collections & College Archives to strengthen instructional partnerships, integrating primary source literacy into the Library’s information literacy curriculum while promoting shared instructional principles and practices across the Library.
  
  - (Essential)
• 15%
  - Research Support and Scholarly Communications - Provides strategic direction for the Library’s research support services, including support for undergraduate research and faculty scholarship, and leads the Library’s scholarly communication outreach and education, including open access and the institutional repository. Works with the Director of Collections and Systems on library-related systems. Identifies emerging needs in…