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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian
• Develop programming, resource materials, scripts, handouts, and websites to
support others engaged in user assessment
• Assist with the design and marketing of the Undergraduate Library services
based on user feedback
• Contribute to overall planning and decision making in the Undergraduate
Library
• Participate in Undergraduate Library collection development
• Participate in reference services (both in person and online), which includes
evening and weekend rotations
• Regularly engage and interact with Undergraduate Library user communities
through formal and informal orientation activities to determine user needs
and to incorporate them into a dynamic needs framework
•
• Serve on library committees and project working groups
B. Prototyping, design, and evaluation: 40%
(Report to AUL for IT, working in conjunction with Head of UGL)
• Develop and evaluate prototype technologies that focus on enabling
undergraduates to discover Library resources and services that support learning
and research, and to integrate them into their work
• Develop a framework for orientation services that incorporates both physical
and virtual environments, and articulates the rationale for the recommended
modes and models that support evolving new student orientation needs
• Regularly engage and interact with Undergraduate Library user communities
through formal and informal orientation activities to determine user needs
and to incorporate them into a dynamic needs framework
• Develop, in conjunction with Library Assessment, and faculty involved in
usability research, measures for evaluating the effectiveness of prototyped
services and environments Collect qualitative and quantitative data and
produce interpretive reports on a periodic basis based on them
• Participate in the design and development of the Library’s Media Commons
program and facilities in the UGL
• Participate in an emerging technologies team comprised of Library faculty
and AP’s who are engaged in several technology development projects (to be
determined)
• Meet on a periodic basis with Library IT groups
• Write grant and other proposals in support of technology rich spaces for new
student learning and engagement with collections and services
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Orientation Services and Environments Librarian
• Develop programming, resource materials, scripts, handouts, and websites to
support others engaged in user assessment
• Assist with the design and marketing of the Undergraduate Library services
based on user feedback
• Contribute to overall planning and decision making in the Undergraduate
Library
• Participate in Undergraduate Library collection development
• Participate in reference services (both in person and online), which includes
evening and weekend rotations
• Regularly engage and interact with Undergraduate Library user communities
through formal and informal orientation activities to determine user needs
and to incorporate them into a dynamic needs framework
•
• Serve on library committees and project working groups
B. Prototyping, design, and evaluation: 40%
(Report to AUL for IT, working in conjunction with Head of UGL)
• Develop and evaluate prototype technologies that focus on enabling
undergraduates to discover Library resources and services that support learning
and research, and to integrate them into their work
• Develop a framework for orientation services that incorporates both physical
and virtual environments, and articulates the rationale for the recommended
modes and models that support evolving new student orientation needs
• Regularly engage and interact with Undergraduate Library user communities
through formal and informal orientation activities to determine user needs
and to incorporate them into a dynamic needs framework
• Develop, in conjunction with Library Assessment, and faculty involved in
usability research, measures for evaluating the effectiveness of prototyped
services and environments Collect qualitative and quantitative data and
produce interpretive reports on a periodic basis based on them
• Participate in the design and development of the Library’s Media Commons
program and facilities in the UGL
• Participate in an emerging technologies team comprised of Library faculty
and AP’s who are engaged in several technology development projects (to be
determined)
• Meet on a periodic basis with Library IT groups
• Write grant and other proposals in support of technology rich spaces for new
student learning and engagement with collections and services
