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EMORY UNIVERSITY
Humanities Librarian, English Literature
http://web.library.emory.edu/documents/pa_HumanitiesLibrarianEnglish.pdf
Humanities Librarian, English Literature
Department: Emory Libraries, Humanities Team
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience
Position Availability: Immediately
The Emory Libraries seek an energetic, user-oriented, and collaborative professional to serve as a Humanities
Librarian on the Humanities Team with a subject area focus of English Literature. Emory’s well-ranked and
dynamic English department includes 40 faculty, over 50 graduate students, and more than 150 undergraduate
majors. The successful candidate will be highly knowledgeable in the field of English and American Literature, have
a passion for the research, teaching and learning mission of the University, and understand the Libraries’ role in the
advancement of that mission. S/he will possess excellent communication, interpersonal, and team skills. This
position offers an opportunity for strategic and interdisciplinary approaches to the selection, teaching, discovery,
and delivery of digital and print information resources.
Position Duties
Reporting to the Humanities Team Leader, the Humanities Librarian will be involved and engaged in the entire life-
cycle of research, teaching and learning processes. S/he will collaborate with and support faculty in course-specific
ways, including providing point-of-need instruction sessions and assignments, research guides and/or tutorials.
Focused primarily on the English department, the librarian will provide a full range of subject specific library
services to include collection development, consultation, instruction, reference services, and assessment. The
librarian will also work closely with other librarians and units to understand and integrate area research and
curricular needs with the Libraries’ collections and services. Partnering with fellow subject librarians, other Library
&Information Technology Services (LITS) units, and campus organizations, the Humanities Librarian will work to
create and sustain strong relationships with the Manuscript, Archives, &Rare Book Library (MARBL), Emory’s
Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), and Academic Technology Services to engage in evolving campus digital
scholarship initiatives. Finally, s/he also will work the reference desk an average of 3 hours a week. Specific duties
include:
 Serves as primary liaison to and actively develops professional relationships with faculty, students and staff in
assigned subject area. May include other areas within the Humanities Team if needed.
 Plans and delivers innovative reference and instruction services teaches research tools and skills relevant to the
discipline, develops content for subject-based web pages, and collaborates with faculty to achieve information
and digital literacies and archival pedagogy learning outcomes in course-specific ways.
 Provides in-depth, specialized consultation in support of the entire research lifecycle contributes to University
efforts to assess and promote institutional scholarship.
 Assists faculty engaged in digital scholarship projects and teaching-and-learning-with-technology initiatives
collaborates as needed with ECDS and Academic Technology Services.
 Partners with other libraries, especially research services in MARBL, to promote teaching and research with
primary evidence materials.
 Develops and manages excellent electronic, multimedia, and print collections in English and American literature
to support the research and teaching needs of the Emory University community, promotes resources using
current tools and technologies, and collaborates with colleagues in related fields to acquire materials, especially
the curators in MARBL.
Libraries &Information Technology Human Resources
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