Librarian, Upper School; grades 9-12

Position Summary

The Upper School Librarian is responsible for the vision, leadership and operation of the Upper School Library as a vital intellectual and community center of the school. The Upper School Librarian provides reference and research service for students, faculty, staff and administration, and is responsible for supervising the library, and selecting, ordering, and ensuring the accurate cataloging of the collection. The Upper School Librarian is a full-time faculty member.

The purpose of the Upper School Librarian is to provide strong academic research assistance and guidance to support students and faculty in achieving the mission of the school. To that end and with the goal of ensuring that students and faculty are effective users of ideas and information, the Upper School Librarian has four main roles:
Librarian, Teacher/Instructional partner, Information Specialist, and Faculty member.

• Based on Faculty Scale according to education and teaching experience
• $56,440-$101,930/ year

• Maintain and supervise all aspects of the library to ensure an inclusive, welcoming, and effective learning environment.
• Serve as the primary academic research support person to students and faculty in the Upper School.
• Promote the principles of intellectual freedom by creating and sustaining an environment promoting free inquiry and exposing students to a broad range of ideas.
• Develop and maintain a robust collection of Library Guides to ensure effective starting points for research, and ready access to databases and other relevant resources.
• Select and purchase materials in all formats to maintain a current and balanced collection representing diverse points of view in support of the Upper School curriculum.
• Create and oversee an annual budget for annual purchases, and recommend long‑term capital needs to the Upper School Head.
• Ensure that all new acquisitions are classified, cataloged, and processed efficiently.
• Hold primary responsibility for selecting and managing the School’s collection of research databases in collaboration with the other divisional Librarians.
• Collaborate with the other Catlin Gabel Librarians for ordering materials and coordinating overlapping services, and to ensure the library program is cohesive and coordinated across divisions.
• Supervise a .75 FTE Associate Librarian colleague to ensure smooth communication and coordination of work and coverage in a busy academic library setting.
• Provide skilled stewardship of an endowed library fund.
• Manage all levels of the daily operation of the Upper School Library program to ensure efficient service to the Catlin Gabel academic community.
• Serve as a member of the Department Chairs group to provide the librarian’s unique perspective.
• Update instructional and library-related professional skills by attending conferences, participating in continuing education opportunities, and networking with other professionals.
• Remain current in professional practices and developments, information technologies, and educational research applicable to school library programs.

• Develop and implement curricula to ensure effective instruction in information and media literacy skills in the Upper School, with particular emphasis on 9th grade and students new to the school.
• Provide group and individual instruction in information and media literacy skills and research skills and strategies, including classroom visits for full‑lesson teaching in partnership with teachers from every department.
• Collaborate with classroom teachers and specialists to design effective instruction to support the research needs of students in a range of academic disciplines, including creation of project‑specific research guides.
• Work with faculty to build and strengthen connections between student information and research needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and information resources.
• Establish methods of gauging instructional effectiveness through assessment tools.
• Provide expertise of the school librarian to colleagues and students in a range of settings as needed.
• Actively promote reading and library use through providing…