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Music Teaching and Research Services Librarian
UCLA Job Location: California Apply By: 05/15/2025 Date Created: 04/17/2025
Music Teaching & Research Services Librarian
Rank and Salary: Assistant Librarian to Associate Librarian ($69,781 – $98,667)
Position Availability: Immediately
The UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative, user-focused professional for the position of Music Teaching & Research Services Librarian. Reporting to the Director of Arts, Music, and Powell Libraries (AMP), the incumbent is responsible for providing services in teaching, research and outreach for music and music-related disciplines; supporting faculty, researchers, students, and other stakeholders in their research and creative work, and liaising with the Herb Alpert School of Music – the Ethnomusicology, Music, and Musicology departments and programs or centers in Armenian Music, Iranian Music, Global Jazz, Latino Arts, Music of American Jewish Experience, Musical Humanities, and Music Industry.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- Lead teaching and research initiatives for the music library, including developing scaffolded information literacy interventions to meet disciplinary and course needs for undergraduate and graduate students in music and music-related disciplines;
- Support library instruction broadly, teaching courses outside of the Music School and/or serving as a liaison to the Cluster program;
- Share responsibility for training and supervising graduate student employees (LSRAs);
- Provide reference and research support for students, faculty and researchers in music in collaboration with AMP User Engagement colleagues;
- Support reference and research broadly, including helping to monitor chat and email questions for the general UCLA Library account;
- Engage in and contribute to development in outreach activities, including collaborative development of events, concerts, and exhibitions;
- Collaborate with colleagues to ensure spaces related to teaching, research, and outreach in the Music Library adapt to changing needs;
- Maintain awareness of changes and trends within relevant disciplines and campus programs;
- Contribute to activities related to evaluating, selecting, and managing materials to ensure that Library collections serve the vast variety of music programs offered at UCLA;
- Collaboratively support the digital preservation and streaming access for audio formats (currently utilizing Avalon Media Systems);
- Share teaching and research support for engagement with the Herb Alpert School of Music and any other department needing music-related support;
- Actively contribute to User Engagement cross-departmental collaborative teams and Library wide initiatives;
- Work with Library Development to identify, cultivate, and steward donors, collections, and gift funds.
Additionally, the successful candidate will be committed to engagement with and promotion of the UCLA Principles of Community and the True Bruin Values.
Description of Unit
User Engagement (UE) unites public services librarians and staff across three major divisions (Sciences; Arts, Music, and Powell; and Management/Humanities and Social Sciences) and four cross-departmental teams (Collections; Outreach; Research; and Teaching and Learning). The UE group is a matrixed organization designed to enhance library services through a cross-disciplinary and cross-functional approach.
The Arts, Music, and Powell division unites 12 librarians and 3 staff across three library locations. The unit supports research and teaching in a wide variety of subjects and at all levels, including specialized collections and services for art, architecture, theater, film and television, music, musicology, and ethnomusicology. The Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library provides teaching and research resources to the Herb Alpert School of Music and serves the wider UCLA community as well as members of the public. The collections consist of online resources (including streaming audio); books; periodicals; music scores; and audio and video recordings. Facilities in the Music Library include the reading room, classroom, seminar room, and Studio A, an audiovisual makerspace. Staffing includes 2 FTE librarians, 3 FTE library assistants, and student employees.
Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply here: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10301
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