Institution

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Job Title

Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Library Innovation

Dates

Opening Date: 07/01/2017
Closing Date: 10/16/2017

Job Description

The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure/tenure-track faculty position with a starting date of July 1, 2018. Candidates at all ranks are welcome to apply. View the in-depth job description flyer. 

Job Duties

Faculty are expected to engage in research, teach, advise students, and participate in school, university, and professional activities. Those with fresh and innovative ideas, a commitment to professional engagement, and an appreciation for cultural diversity are encouraged to apply.

Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills

The faculty seek an outstanding colleague with research and teaching interests in academic and research library innovation and leadership. We are especially interested in people who are taking a leading role in: Shaping emerging academic and research library roles and responsibilities Helping library managers plan for and evaluate progress toward these new roles Improving and envisioning new forms of access to special collections Imagining and building new tools to disseminate and use the scholarly record Stewarding of research data and other heterogeneous scholarly products Preserving the broader cultural record underlying research and scholarship Educating the next generation of public or technical services librarians OR Establishing new models for working with funders, vendors, publishers, and scholarly societies An earned doctorate is required at the time of employment. Degrees can be in any appropriate discipline.

Supplemental Information

SILS offers an array of undergraduate and graduate degrees. We are an intellectually curious, collegial scholarly community whose expertise spans a range of disciplines, methodological approaches, and research paradigms. See http://sils.unc.edu for more about our school, programs, and faculty. The Research Triangle of North Carolina has three of the top university libraries in North America, including the UNC Chapel Hill library system, and is home to the annual Scholarly Communication Institute. SILS graduates lead academic libraries around the world. A faculty position at SILS offers a tremendous opportunity to shape the future of academic librarianship and scholarly communication, and so we seek candidates with significant expertise in the field, who are looking to lead efforts that will make a broad impact. 

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