Librarian

Position Summary

Located 45 minutes from the Nation's Capital, nestled in a history-rich community of southern Maryland, The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) is a two-time Aspen Award-winning institution (top 15% of Community Colleges) with academic programs in over 100 disciplines. CSM is among America's top 100 producers of Minority Associate Degrees in twenty categories, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. CSM offers excellent health insurance benefits; State Retirement Pension plan; wellness programs; Code Green early closure Fridays in the summer; college closure for spring break and several major holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year; and for several days in March for Spring Break. We are an innovative institution committed to student success and well known for our flexibility to meet student and community needs.

The individual in this position provides reference and research services to students, faculty, staff, and community members; to conduct user education including designing and implementing information literacy resources; to manage and administer the library's electronic automated systems and research resources including troubleshooting and liaison with outside vendors; and to select online and print materials for the library as well as to remove/replace obsolete materials.

The College of Southern Maryland conducts background checks in order to ensure the safety and well-being of the College's staff and students. The final candidate for this position will be subject to the following background checks: Criminal History Check and Sex Offender Registry Check.

This position is open until filled. The College of Southern Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Conducts reference interviews, employing question-negotiating techniques.

• Assists students, faculty members and other library customers in locating information and resources. Requests may come from a variety of sources including in-person, telephone, email, and the internet.

• Assists customers in using appropriate traditional or electronic resources, including the Internet, WEB based databases, and the SMSC collections.

• Refers customers to other libraries or resource centers as appropriate, including Interlibrary Loan.

• Identifies and assesses problems related to reference service and recommends solutions.

• Assists Library Director in formulating customer service policies and procedures.

• Conducts research seminars for college classes in a variety of subject areas.

• Designs and implements information literacy learning exercises.

• Creates reference or research support materials or services in response to student needs. Assists faculty in creating such materials.

• Instructs customers in the use of library resources.

• Creates and conducts faculty training workshops.

• Supervises acquisition, reference, arrangement, description, and preservation of collections.

• Contacts departments across all campuses to identify archival materials and ensure their preservation.

• Develops an organization scheme for the archival materials and implements the same.

• Maintains the digital catalog of the college archival collections.

• Assists customers looking for information located in the college archives.

• Oversees the audio-visual archives including the accessioning and arrangement of collections of still photographs, film, video, and audio-tapes and directs the creation of finding aids.

• Develops and updates written College Archives Collection Policy and Procedures.

• Carries out collection developments policies and procedures, including the removal/replacement of obsolete materials.

• Selects library materials to fill identified gaps in the collection including eBooks.

• Evaluates online database trial subscriptions for possible inclusion as CSM research resources.

• Works with Library Director to ensure that distance education students have library research resources equivalent to those of traditional on-campus students.

• Ensures the maintenance of an environment conducive to learning.

• Conducts tours of the library when appropriate.

• Compiles statistics for inclusion in Library Director's status reports.

• Develops draft policy/guideline documents e.g., Information Literacy Initiative; Electronic Reserve Guidelines.

• Substitutes, as necessary, for Library Director at meetings e.g., CSM College Technology Council; MD Community College Library Consortium.

• Assists with circulation services as needed.

Additional Duties:

Performs other related work as required.

Minimum Education and Training

• Master's Degree in Library Science (MLS) from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited library school.

Minimum Qualifications and Standards Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently and display initiative within guidelines.

• Excellent communications (written and oral), customer service and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with using Microsoft Office software.

• Experience with various kinds of databases.

• Ability to use and troubleshoot basic office equipment

Physical Requirements:

The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly.