User Experience Librarian

Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic, collaborative User Experience Librarian who will contribute to student and institutional success by leading the library’s efforts to maintain, assess, and iteratively improve our patron-facing web presence. Key responsibilities include overseeing the design and content of the library website, evaluating and improving our discovery service, leading usability testing across the library, and improving integration between the library’s web presence and the university’s learning management system. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the development of documentation to help library faculty and staff create pages and content using our web resources as well as ensuring compliance with accessibility, information security, privacy, other legal and campus requirements, and branding guidelines. The successful candidate will also provide research help, course-related instruction, and collection development services to faculty, staff, and students as part of a team of liaison librarians. 

This is a tenure-track position, and as such does require scholarship and service. At SUNY Plattsburgh librarians are academic faculty who may be required to teach in our Cardinal Core general education program and participate in shared governance through Faculty Senate. Feinberg Library assists students, faculty, staff, and the community in their intellectual activities by providing resources and services in support of research, teaching, and learning. We strive to help our users develop information literacy essential for life-long learning and becoming well-informed, reflective global citizens. We are part of the Academic Affairs division that administratively builds our college commitment to student success through a strong curriculum, excellent teaching, and scholarly research. Our commitment includes fostering student preparation for the workplace or graduate school and for life-long learning. As SUNY Plattsburgh is an institution that delivers challenging and high-quality educational experiences to a diverse group of learners, the successful candidate must demonstrate an understanding of and sensitivity to diversity, inclusion, and equity-minded policies, programs, and practices.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in information and/or library science, from an ALA-accredited school or an ALA-approved foreign equivalent, by time of appointment. As such, we welcome applications from recent MLIS graduates and current MLIS students who will earn the degree by the time of appointment.
• Demonstrated experience writing HTML and CSS
• Demonstrated experience with library discovery interfaces (e.g. Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service, or Summon)
• Knowledge of inclusive practices and standards in library websites and discovery services, including accessibility requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of and sensitivity to anti-oppressive practice, diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collegially with faculty, staff, and administrators