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Notre Dame, Indiana
Posted: 26-Feb-24
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Type: Faculty
Salary: minimum salary of $72,000
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The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame seeks an innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professional for the position of Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian and Curator. In addition to advancing the Hesburgh Libraries’ strategic framework, this individual will engage in outreach, instruction, and personalized research support for students and scholars across disciplines. The Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian and Curator also manages, strengthens, expands, and diversifies notable rare and research collections in response to the needs of an active and growing Latin American and Iberian Studies community.
Reporting to the Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, the ideal candidate will enable greater research productivity, sustainable publication, and dissemination of scholarship and data.
The Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian and Curator is the primary library liaison to College of Arts and Letters faculty, students, and researchers working on Latin American and/or Iberian topics and to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. This individual collaborates closely with other subject librarians, the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, User Experience and Engagement, University Archives, and other library units to effectively respond to teaching and research needs across campus, including those of the Keough School of Global Affairs, the Institute for Latino Studies, and other campus colleges, institutes, and centers. The successful candidate for this position joins the Hesburgh Libraries at an exciting time of growth and transformation. With new leadership at the Provost, Vice President for Research, Dean of Libraries and Associate University Librarian levels, the Hesburgh Libraries will shift the paradigm on how research libraries further the creation, understanding, and use of knowledge.
The Latin American Studies Collection
The Hesburgh Libraries Latin American Studies collection serves the Latin American and Iberian studies research and teaching communities at Notre Dame, including faculty and students across and beyond the humanities and social sciences. The collection has grown significantly over the past decades and is utilized by an active and growing faculty and student body. Rare Books and Special Collections holds substantial print and manuscript collections for the study of Latin America and the Early Modern Hispanic World. The materials range from rare books printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to colonial-era manuscripts, to scarcely-held literary journals, periodicals, and writers' correspondence. Books and manuscript materials related to literary movements of the twentieth-century Southern Cone and Hispanic Caribbean are a particularly deep strength of the department's Latin American holdings. Other strengths include historical materials from colonial and republican Peru as well as the countries of the Southern Cone.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development, description, promotion, preservation, and assessment of multi-format, interdisciplinary rare and research collections that serve the needs of students and faculty in Latin American and Iberian Studies.
- Provide instruction and reference support for relevant University of Notre Dame courses and programs that include Latin American, Iberian, and/or Latino/a/x content.
- Develop specific services to support and supplement undergraduate and graduate teaching and advanced research programs relevant to Latin American, Iberian, and Latino/a/x fields.
- In collaboration with other librarians, curators, and archivists, integrate the use of rare and research collections into the curriculum of academic departments through teaching and outreach in a variety of formats (seminars, presentations, exhibitions, digital projects, tours, etc.).
- Serve as liaison to students, faculty, and researchers working on Latin American and Iberian topics across disciplines, departments, schools, and programs.
- Support and participate in broader Libraries’ information literacy and instruction programs.
Salary and Benefits
Faculty appointment, salary, and rank are nationally competitive with peer Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members and commensurate with experience and qualifications, with a minimum starting salary of $72,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience. Per the University’s Academic Articles, librarians at Hesburgh Libraries qualify for non-tenure library faculty appointments. Candidates may learn more about Library faculty status through the University’s “Academic Articles” and the Hesburgh Libraries’ information circular “Criteria for Library Faculty Appointment and Promotion”. Both documents are available in the “Library Faculty Positions” section of Hesburgh Libraries’ Employment Opportunities web page, at https://www.library.nd.edu/employment/
In addition, the University of Notre Dame offers an outstanding benefits package. Candidates can view summaries of benefits at Human Resources’ Benefits Summaries web page, at https://hr.nd.edu/employment/benefit-summaries/. For this role, view the summary entitled “Regular Faculty {Full-Time}.”
Finally, the University of Notre Dame supports the needs of dual career couples and has a Dual Career Assistance Program to assist relocating spouses and significant others with their job search. Candidates can view summaries of this program at Human Resources’ Dual Career Assistance Program web page, at https://hr.nd.edu/employment/dual-career-assistance-program/
Environment
The University of Notre Dame is a highly selective global Catholic doctoral research university with very high research activity whose idyllic campus is located in northern Indiana’s Michiana region, and about 90 miles east from Chicago. For more information about the University of Notre Dame, please visit the University of Notre Dame homepage at http://nd.edu/.
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame advances institutional priorities by utilizing a talent process that maximizes professional and personal potential, implementing innovative services that further intellectual inquiry, and facilitating access to knowledge across a wide range of scholarly resources in numerous disciplines and formats.
As the primary library system on Notre Dame's campus, Hesburgh Libraries is a dynamic organization that features the flagship Hesburgh Library. Hesburgh Library, along with the Main Building and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, is one of three iconic buildings that define the skyline of the Notre Dame campus. It also features the world-famous Word of Life mural (affectionately known as “Touchdown Jesus”).
The Hesburgh Library building houses the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Medieval Institute Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, University Archives, and the Visual Resources Center. The Hesburgh Libraries organization also includes three specialty libraries located across the Notre Dame campus (Architecture Library, Business Library, and Music Library).
In 2022, the Hesburgh Libraries developed a new mission, vision, and strategic framework [pdf] designed to help advance Notre Dame's aspirations to become one of the world's leading research universities while prioritizing human and professional flourishing. Within this new framework, each member of the library community plays a key role in advancing strategic goals and objectives, sustaining critical operations, and defining shared values.
The Hesburgh Libraries organization employs nearly 200 people, including more than 50 library faculty members, and has been a longstanding member of several organizations, including Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), HathiTrust, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership.
Additional information about Hesburgh Libraries can be found on the Libraries’ website https://www.library.nd.edu/employment/. For additional information about working at the University of Notre Dame and various benefits available to employees, please visit http://hr.nd.edu/why-nd.
Diversity and Inclusion
We expect that the successful candidates will increase the diversity of voices within research libraries, higher education, and cultural heritage institutions. Through their materials, applicants should clearly demonstrate how they have embodied, fostered, or implemented an equitable culture that considers diversity to be a competitive advantage.
While the University of Notre Dame welcomes and actively seeks Catholic intellectuals, what the University asks of all its scholars and students is not a particular creedal affiliation, but a respect for the objectives of Notre Dame, and a willingness to enter into the conversation that gives it life and character. Therefore, the University insists upon academic freedom that makes open discussion and inquiry possible.
The University of Notre Dame is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
Application Instructions:
This position posting and application instructions can be found on the Interfolio website: http://apply.interfolio.com/141501
Review of applications will begin immediately, and the application period ends on April 1, 2024.
Interested candidates should assemble four (4) items, in the following sequential order, in a single, unlocked Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file:
(1) A formal letter of application (3 pages maximum), addressed to:
Michelle Savoie
Personnel Specialist
Hesburgh Libraries
University of Notre Dame
428 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(2) A résumé or curriculum vitae (15 pages maximum);
(3) Final, accepted, or complete draft publication or comparable non-confidential writing sample (10 pages maximum); and
(4) The name, title, institution, and email address of three (3) professional references. At least one of these references must have been your direct supervisor within the past three years. (Hesburgh Libraries search representatives will begin contacting professional references once selected candidates accept an invitation for a campus visit.)
Please name the submitted Acrobat file as follows:
hesburghlibraries_LAC_lnamefirstinitial
(Example: hesburghlibraries_LAC_savoiem)
Failure to comply with these directions may disqualify your application from being considered or delay review of your materials.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
Background Check
This appointment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Applicants will be asked to identify all felony convictions and/or pending felony charges. Felony convictions do not automatically bar an individual from employment. Each case will be examined separately to determine the appropriateness of employment in the particular position. Failure to be forthcoming or dishonesty with respect to felony disclosures can result in the disqualification of a candidate. The full procedure can be viewed at https://facultyhandbook.nd.edu/?id=link-73597.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited program (or international equivalent) or terminal degree in another relevant discipline. Degree must be completed prior to the candidate's starting date of employment.
- Deep interdisciplinary knowledge of Latin American and Iberian Studies as demonstrated through advanced disciplinary or area studies coursework or degree.
- Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish
- Minimum of two years of topically relevant and demonstrable experience in an academic environment, archives, or museum
- User service orientation with demonstrated ability to work effectively and professionally as part of a team and independently
- Knowledge of current trends and best practices in special collections and archives
- Demonstrated commitment to creating a more inclusive historical record, and to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Latin American Studies-related field
- Knowledge of Portuguese
- Outreach experience, including but not limited to exhibitions and public programs and establishing and maintaining relationships with user communities.
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