STEM Instruction Library Assistant, Snell Library (Northeastern), Boston, MA
Posted June 27, 2022
Description:
The STEM & Entrepreneurship Library team seeks a driven and organized person for the position of STEM Instruction Library Assistant. Reporting to the Head of STEM & Entrepreneurship, this position supports the First Year Engineering (FYE) Library Workshop series which teaches approximately 600 students in the fall semester and will teach classes, consults, and respond to email queries for assorted departments across the College of Science.
Primary responsibilities:
- Create and maintain a schedule of approximately 30-35 FYE workshops for students and coordinate librarian co-teaching assignments for each workshop.
- Assist with preparing teaching materials for FYE and selected other STEM disciplines, including updates to asynchronous online module used by students ahead of the class, synchronous workshop content, and/or handouts.
- Help manage logistics of a large teaching program including monitoring registrations, attendance, and cleaning data to be sent to First Year Engineering instructors in the College of Engineering.
- Co-teach portions of the FYE workshops along with a librarian, and solo teach approximately 5 other introductory classes within the College of Science
- Review & assess student survey responses from the FYE synchronous workshop.
- Provide research consults synchronously and via email with students, faculty, and staff from selected departments across the College of Science covering basics of information literacy and introductions to relevant databases.
The successful candidate will be:
- Enthusiastic about supporting and teaching undergraduate engineering and science students
- Ready and able to work both collaboratively and independently as part of the First Year Engineering library team
- Curious and eager to learn about library instruction
- Reliable and organized
Why would you want this job?
This is an excellent opportunity for a future instruction librarian to learn how a unique large instruction program works and the logistics that go into making it run smoothly. You will also have the opportunity to co-teach alongside librarians and get real instruction and experience in a supportive, collaborative, and fun team environment.
Qualifications:
- Interest in academic librarianship
- Comfortable with regular face-to-face and virtual interaction (via video conference, chat, email)
- Adept communication and organizational skills
- Be able to read, write, and speak English
- Weekday daytime availability for 12-20 hours a week from August through October, with occasional (3-4) evening classes (typically held on Monday and Wednesday) if reasonable for the successful applicant’s schedule
- Comfortable using computer software such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams
- Comfortable learning new software quickly (e.g. Springshare LibApps. PollEverywhere, Zoom, Canvas, Google Slides are all used for teaching)
- Masters in Library Science (either in progress or completed), or equivalent work experience
- Experience teaching, facilitating, or presenting preferred
- Experience managing projects preferred
- Experience with any combination of EndNote, Zotero, PubMed, Engineering Village, Knovel, or Web of Science preferred
Position Type: Temporary
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