Reference & Instruction Assistant, Associate or Full Librarian

South Dakota State University’s (SDSU) Hilton M. Briggs Library welcomes applications for a faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Librarian rank as a Reference & Instruction Librarian with subject librarian duties for the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences. Join a dynamic team committed to empowering the SDSU community and contributing to the academic success of our students and faculty. The position reports to the Associate Dean for Library Operations. This position is located onsite in Brookings, South Dakota, and is full-time and benefits-eligible with a contract year of 12 months.

The Hilton M. Briggs Library fosters academic excellence, collaborative endeavor, creative scholarship, student engagement, and lifelong curiosity. The library serves all SDSU academic disciplines and holds approximately 775,000 bound volumes and 600,000 government documents and provides access to over 100,000 electronic journals as well as e-books and streaming videos. The library building offers a variety of collaborative and individual workspaces.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide subject librarian services to students, staff, and faculty in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences to ensure collections and services meet faculty and student needs.
• Provide both in-person and online reference desk and research consultation, including some evening and weekend hours.
• Participate in library-wide and college instruction programs teaching a broad range of information literacy skills to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Engage in collection development and review.
• Participate in the assessment of student learning and the evaluation of library collections and services.
• Keep abreast of relevant trends that impact academic libraries, assigned subject librarian areas, and higher education.
• Serve the library, SDSU, and the profession through committee work and other service contributions.

BENEFITS:

SDState offers a wide range of excellent benefits including medical, dental, and flexible benefits, retirement plans, compensation packages, paid holidays, and vacation leave. We offer a generous retirement plan that includes 6% matching, 10 hours of annual leave each month, 9.34 hours of sick leave each month, and eleven paid holidays. Employees also have access to internal and state-sponsored training as well as reduced tuition for state-supported courses at all State of South Dakota academic institutions. Relocation benefits are available per university’s guidelines.