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Position Summary:
Established in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, Florida Atlantic University serves 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students on six campuses along Florida's beautiful southeast coast in Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie counties. Florida Atlantic has ten distinguished colleges that offer more than 180-degree programs, including the Schmidt College of Medicine, and is home to one of the world's preeminent marine science education and research centers, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Florida Atlantic University is taking its place among the world's great research centers and has been given the designation of a "High Research Activity" university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Florida Atlantic is one of only 21 institutions in the nation to earn both Carnegie R1 and Opportunity University designations as well as achieving Community Engagement distinctions and Top 100 ranking. Florida Atlantic University Libraries are focused on working collaboratively with this distinguished campus community on research initiatives and prioritizing student engagement and success. Florida Atlantic Libraries house approximately 3.7 million items and provide access to over 80,000 electronic journals, nearly 500 databases, and a growing collection of e-books and streaming videos. The Libraries house many distinctive collections, including artistsā books, sound recordings, print music, rare books and manuscripts, and University Archives. The Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Unit provides the Research Hub learning space for graduate students, post-docs, doctoral students, researchers, visiting scholars, and community users. In addition, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship creates online collections from unique materials held in Special Collections and University Archives, serving as the University's repository for intellectual output generated on campus including Florida Atlantic University created journals and curated displays.
Reporting directly to the Assistant Dean for Access, Research, and Learning Services, the STEM Librarian provides leadership in the design, delivery, and assessment of research, instruction, and outreach services that support STEM disciplines. This position works collaboratively with faculty, researchers, students, and other campus partners to integrate information literacy, data literacy, and emerging research practices into STEM teaching and learning. The successful candidate will deliver orientations and instructional programming that support the effective use of library services and resources by students and faculty, employing workshops, course-integrated instruction, online instructional materials, online tutorials, and other innovative, technology-enhanced approaches to advance engagement and research productivity in STEM disciplines. The STEM Librarian will serve one day a week at the John D. Macarthur Campus Library in Jupiter to support the research initiatives of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, and STEM faculty and students at that campus (using the Librariesā state vehicle (if desired)), and the remaining days at the S.E. Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton Campus.
The Florida Atlantic Libraries seek a student-focused, high-energy, collaborative, organized, engaged, positive, innovative, strong written and verbal communicator, and self-starter, who adapts well to change and can manage multiple projects with the ability to prioritize effectively. We endeavor to be a highly engaged organization that believes in striving for excellence, utilizing assessment and data for decision-making, and maintaining a culture of appreciation/gratitude, as a R1/Top 100 University with āOpportunity Colleges and Universitiesā and Community Engagement distinctions. Successful candidates are also expected to demonstrate commitment to professional development and lifelong learning and user engagement. This position will primarily work on the Boca Raton Campus, one day a week at the Jupiter Campus, but may at times be asked to work at one of the other Florida Atlantic campuses.
Essential Functions
Proactively identify and advance opportunities for the Libraries to enhance research and instructional productivity and improve student learning by embedding new or existing services into teaching, learning, and research workflows, with particular emphasis on STEM units.
Actively engage with faculty, students, and staff in assigned STEM subject areas, developing strong working relationships and partnerships.
Plan and implement sustainable outreach and engagement strategies to connect library resources, services, and instruction to needs on campus.
Promote the use of emerging research and STEM-related technologies while assisting students and faculty in locating and effectively using information resources through current research, reading strategies, and instructional methods.
Support research workflows related to data management, open science, reproducibility, and scholarly communication, in collaboration with campus partners.
Assist faculty and students with citation management tools, research metrics, and discovery platforms.
Contribute to institutional repository initiatives, open access publishing, and research visibility efforts, as appropriate.
Use and support discipline-specific databases and tools in science, engineering, or technology (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed).
Provide advanced research support for brain and behavioral science databases, specialized research platforms, and interdisciplinary STEM resources aligned with Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscienceās (MPFI) and Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute research priorities.
Identify opportunities for collaborative workshops, seminars, and research that connect MPFI scientists with FAU faculty and students.
Participate in outreach services to promote faculty, student, researchers, and staff engagement with Open Educational Resources, Scholarly Publishing, Open Pedagogy, and Digital Commons initiatives.
Participate in Librariesā liaison program including development and review of research guides in assigned discipline.
Perform scoping reviews and grant assistance for STEM liaison areas.
Support the Librariesā Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other strategic initiatives.
Support efforts to maintain R1/Top 100 status for the University and the Libraries.
Develop an annual professional development plan.
Investigate opportunities to carry out, publish, and present original scholarship, research, and scholarly projects related to the area of expertise or responsibility.
Serve on appropriate Libraries, University, regional, state or national committees including professional committees, and actively participate in Librariesā and campus faculty governance.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
FAU Benefits and Perks
Position is a non-tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate University Librarian on a 12-month contract with service and sustained expectation of scholarship, research, and/or creative endeavors (as outlined in the FAU Librariesā Promotion Guidelines: https://library.fau.edu/staff/faculty/promotion-guidelines) required for promotion.
FAU Libraries offers (as budget permits):
Financial moving assistance.
Financial support for professional memberships.
Financial support for professional development participation, leadership, and service activities including travel.
If Benefits & Perks are important to you, then FAU is the place to be! Working at FAU has its perks! In addition to helping drive change and having a positive impact by supporting our students, staff, and faculty, FAU offers:
Excellent benefit packages including Medical (PPO/HMO $50 per month single & $180 per month family), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending plans, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and much more.
State retirement options including tax-deferred annuities and Roth 403(b) plans.
State employees Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
Sick Leave Pool Program.
Paid time off (eligible employees) including vacation and sick leave, 1 personal day, 9 paid holidays, and paid winter break (at Presidentās discretion).
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