Head, Industrial Relations & Human Resources & Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Libraries (Lib III

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Job Title: Head, Industrial Relations & Human Resources & Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Libraries (Lib III)

Date Posted: 07/31/2026

Closing Date:08/30/2026

Job Category:Librarian - Contractually Limited Term Appointment

Faculty/Division:Faculty of Arts & Science

Department:Ctr of Criminology

Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Existing Vacancy: Yes

Are you looking for challenging, meaningful work in a supportive and diverse environment? Are you looking for a career at one of Canada’s top employers? Work where the world comes to think, discover and learn. Consider a career at the University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked in the top five among peer institutions in North America. The system comprises 40 libraries located across three university campuses:
St.George, Mississauga, and Scarborough. This diverse and extensive network of college libraries, special collections, and specialized information centres plays a pivotal role in supporting the teaching, scholarly, and research needs of nearly 100,000 students enrolled in a wide array of graduate, professional, and undergraduate programs.

The library system provides access to millions of resources in various formats, including electronic, print, audio-visual, data and geospatial materials. UTL also boasts impressive holdings of archival material and substantial digital collections, securely preserved in the libraries' data centre. The staff at UTL are integral to the academic and scholarly enterprise, working closely with faculty and students to support their teaching, learning, and research requirements.

They are subject matter experts; they are skilled in research data management, collections, statistics, GIS, metadata, digital preservation, scholarly communications, copyright, teaching, knowledge synthesis, open access and much more. Our work is grounded in our commitment to support equity, diversity, and inclusion. UTL continuously evolves to meet the changing academic priorities and pressures at the University and within the broader landscape of higher education.

The Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (CrimSL) is a research and teaching unit at the University of Toronto focused on the study of local, regional, national and international studies of crime, its management and its imbrications within social inequality. Its faculty, students, and researchers seek to understand the relationship between crime, social order, science & technology, policing, law and law enforcement, as well as the various processes through which justice and injustice take shape in daily life.

Its library collection reflects the unit’s multi-disciplinary orientation within both criminology and sociolegal studies.

Since 1965, the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources (CIRHR) has brought together professors from many different disciplines and departments at the University of Toronto to teach and conduct research on all aspects of the workplace and employment relationships. CIRHR is home to hundreds of students across our undergraduate, professional Masters, and doctoral degree programs. The CIRHR faculty, staff and students reflect the depth, breadth, and diversity of our university.

The CIRHRis located ina historic home with administrative and faculty offices, an on-site Library, student computer facilities, studyspaceand a classroom. The CIRHR has its own library collection and staff, which serve as valuable resources for our students and faculty, as well as the broader community of industrial relations and human resources professionals in Canada and around the world.

The CIRHR and the CrimSL are hiring a term-limited Librarian, Oct 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027, who will be responsible for the daily operations of both Centres and who will work collaboratively…