114 · Representative Documents: Position Descriptions
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Humanities Librarian, English Literature
http://web.library.emory.edu/documents/pa_HumanitiesLibrarianEnglish.pdf
General Information
Professional librarians at Emory Libraries are 12-month faculty-equivalent positions evaluated annually with assigned
ranks renewable for 3 or 5 years based on experience and background. Appropriate professional leave and funding is
provided. Depending on educational credentials and position, librarians may be considered for a shared/dual
appointment between the library and academic department as a faculty member.
Librarian appointees at Emory generally have educational credentials and professional backgrounds with academic
library experience and/or disciplinary knowledge and demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, professional
engagement and involvement, research and scholarship, creativity, innovation, and flexibility. Such backgrounds will
normally include a graduate degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science program AND/OR a
discipline-specific master’s OR doctoral degree. In addition to professional competence and service within the library
in the primary job assignment, advancement and/or appointment renewal requires professional involvement and
contributions outside of the library and scholarly activities. Candidates must show evidence or promise of such
contributions.
Emory provides an extremely competitive fringe benefit plan that includes personal leave, holiday pay, medical and
dental plans, life insurance, courtesy scholarships, and tuition reimbursement just to name a few. For a full list of
benefit programs, please go to http://www.hr.emory.edu/eu/benefits/.
Description of Institution and Library
Emory University is internationally recognized for its outstanding liberal arts college, superb professional schools,
and one of the South’s leading health care systems. Emory’s beautiful, leafy main campus is located in Atlanta’s
historic Druid Hills suburb and is home to 7,836 undergraduates and 6,677 graduate and professional students.
As the third largest private employer in Atlanta, Emory University and Emory Healthcare have a combined
workforce of approximately, 27,937 and an annual operating budget of $4.3 billion. Emory University received
$507.1 million in research funding in 2013. Emory recently concluded a successful fundraising campaign that
raised $1.69 billion from 149,000 donors.
Ranked among the top 25 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in North America, Emory University Libraries
in Atlanta and Oxford, Georgia are an intellectual commons for Emory University. Comprised of 9 libraries, the
holdings include more than 3.9 million print and electronic volumes, 83,000-plus electronic journals, and
internationally renowned special collections. Emory is well known in a number of collection areas including
modern literature, African-American history and culture, U.S. Southern history and culture, and U.S. civil rights.
Emory Libraries staff number approximately 137 and the overall library budget is approximately $25.3 million.
The Emory Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA), and the Scholarly Publishing &Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) as well as regional associations
including the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), Georgia Library Learning Online
(GALILEO), and the GETSM Consortium (a consortium of the University of Georgia, Emory, Georgia Tech,
Georgia State University, and Georgia Regents University).
The Emory Libraries include the Robert W. Woodruff Library, which is also home to the MARBL. Other
campus libraries, which serve the specialized and professional schools, include the Goizueta Business Library, the
Woodruff Health Sciences Library, the Pitts Theology Library and the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library in addition
to the Oxford College Library located on the Oxford Campus approximately 30 miles from Atlanta.
18 July 2014
EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran Employer
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