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| Position Title: | Music User Services Coordinator and Assistant or Associate Professor of Library Administration |
| Institution: | University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign |
| General Information: | Position Available: Early 2007. A full-time tenure track faculty position. |
| Duties and Responsibilities: | The University of Illinois Music Library is looking for an energetic, service-oriented librarian with experience in developing and maintaining user services and collections, both in print and non-print formats. The responsibilities of the Coordinator will include overseeing music reference services, including training of reference staff; organizing user education, information literacy, and outreach activities for library patrons; and participating in stock selection. The Coordinator will also play a lead role in developing and maintaining the library’s digital information services, including online reserves; and in actively providing reference service and user instruction. The Coordinator will also be responsible for maintaining and developing the Music Library’s web pages. As a member of the Music Library faculty, the Music User Services Coordinator participates in shared planning and decision-making for the library. |
| Environment: | The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign is one of
the preeminent research collections in the nation and the world.
With more than 10 million volumes and a total of 23 million items,
it ranks highly among academic libraries in the United States and
first among public university libraries in the world. As the intellectual
heart of the campus, the Library is committed to maintaining the
strongest collections and services possible and engaging in research
and development activities—both of which support the University’s
mission of teaching, research, and public service. The UIUC Library
is the third largest academic library in the United States and has
a collection of more than ten million volumes. The Library employs
approximately 100 library faculty and 300 library staff. For more
information, see http://library.uiuc.edu.
The Library consists of more than forty departmental libraries that are located throughout campus and administratively organized into eight divisions. The Music Library, founded in 1944 and located in the Music Building, is among the largest collections of its kind at a public university. The library supports a wide range of graduate and doctoral programs in the School of Music and collects materials within most fields of musical performance, music education, musicology, music theory, and composition. The staff comprises 3 FTE librarians, 8.5 FTE staff, 1 FTE graduate assistant, and 3.5 student employees. The library’s special collections include the Harry Partch Archives (manuscripts, films, sound recordings, and papers), the microfilm collection of the Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies (representing more than 1,600 manuscripts of polyphonic music), the Lawrence King Opera Collection (over 40, 000 sound and video recordings, scores, photographs, and librettos), the Gottfried Fraenkel Collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editions of European music (approximately 900 titles, including many first editions), a collection of approximately 100,000 titles of American popular music from the 1790s through the 1970s, and the Walter J. Kasura collection of Russian folk-orchestra music (23,000 titles). For more information see the library’s website at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux. |
| Qualifications: | Required: Master’s degree or equivalent from an ALA-accredited library school and a bachelor’s degree in Music or equivalent. Minimum two years experience in an academic Music Library. Experience providing reference service and creating and maintaining web pages and web-based resources. Ability to read German or French. Strong interpersonal skills. Effective written and oral communications skills. Preferred: Experience selecting music materials for an academic library. Graduate study in Music. Evidence of a commitment to professional development, research and service. |
| Salary and Rank: | Salary and rank commensurate with credentials and experience. This is a full-time faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, depending on service and research record. Librarians have faculty rank and must demonstrate excellence in librarianship, research, publication, and service in order to meet university standards for promotion and tenure. |
| Terms of Appointment: | Twelve month appointment; 24 work days vacation per year; 11 paid holidays; 12 annual sick leave days (cumulative), plus an additional 13 days (non-cumulative) per year if necessary; health insurance, requiring a small co-payment, is provided to employee (coverage for dependents may be purchased); participation in State Universities Retirement System is required, includes several private options, is compulsory (8% of staff member’s salary is withheld and is refundable upon termination); newly hired university employees are covered by the Medicare portion of Social Security and are subject to its deduction. |
| Campus and Community: | The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive
and major public land-grant university (Doctoral/Research University-Extensive)
that is ranked among the best in the world. Chartered in 1867, it
provides undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields
of study, conducts theoretical and applied research, and provides
public service to the state and the nation. It employs 2,000 faculty
members who serve 26,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate and professional
students; approximately 25% of faculty receive campuswide recognition
each year for excellence in teaching. More information about the
campus is available at http://www.uiuc.edu.
The University is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, which have a combined population of 100,000 and are situated about 140 miles south of Chicago, 120 miles west of Indianapolis, and 170 miles northeast of St. Louis. The University and its surrounding communities offer a cultural and recreational environment ideally suited to the work of a major research institution. For more information about the community visit http://www.uiuc.edu/misc/campus.html, http://cucvb.org/, or http://www.ccchamber.org/. |
| Deadline: | In order to ensure full consideration, applications and nominations must be received by December 8, 2006. |
| Application: | Send letter of application and complete resume with the names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses (where available) of three references to: Cindy KellyHead, Human Resources University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 1408 West Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 Phone 217-333-8169 EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER |
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