Librarian

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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

Librarian (Hourly)

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

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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

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

• Reliable…