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The California State University - San Jose, CA, United States, 95199
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Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: San José
Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time, Librarian (Non-instructional Faculty), Telecommute eligible (work onsite as scheduled and/or as requested and telecommute as scheduled)
School/Department Name: University Library
Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $90,000 - $95,000. Librarians in the CSU system enjoy full faculty status and as such are eligible for campus service opportunities, sabbaticals, and additional benefits.
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans; generous paid leave (24 vacation days and one personal holiday per year and one day of sick leave per month); and membership in CALPERS, the largest retirement system in the country. Librarians are represented under Unit 3 of the California Faculty Association (CFA). See the CSU Employee Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent benefits package.
Target Start Date: August 2025. (Applications accepted until filled or closed)
Application Deadline: April 4, 2025 (Applications accepted until filled or closed)
Position Description
Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Library at SJSU welcomes applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position as Digital and Data Literacy Librarian.
The Digital and Data Literacy Librarian will lead the collaborative design, delivery, and evaluation of a comprehensive range of digital and data literacy services for the SJSU community. This role will work closely with liaison librarians, campus faculty, and relevant departments to integrate digital and data literacy into relevant courses and research programs, fostering an environment that enhances the use of digital scholarship and data management tools. Working with the Data Services Librarian, the librarian will also provide consultations on data management and sharing, helping researchers comply with open research practices and meet funder, publisher, and institutional requirements. This position will develop and lead initiatives that promote open access to research data, and will represent SJSU Library in these areas on campus and within the CSU system.
This librarian will actively engage in professional activities that advance digital and data services in academic libraries and will contribute to shared governance through participation in university committees and other service assignments. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding of the diverse needs of SJSU’s student population through inclusive teaching strategies, course materials, and research support. Librarians at SJSU are faculty who are expected to engage in library and university governance and scholarship, which are requirements for tenure and promotion. This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum on-campus presence of three days a week.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or an equivalent international degree by the time of hire.
- Experience with technologies associated with digital methods in scholarship, data analysis and visualization, and/or research data management.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective instruction and training related to digital literacy, technology skills, and/or research data management.
- Demonstrated ability to engage in professional and scholarly activity to meet requirements for tenure and promotion.
- Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a socially and economically diverse student population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting the research lifecycle of digital projects.
- Experience with supporting research data management, sharing, and reuse.
- Experience supporting open data, open knowledge or open research practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaboratively design, deliver, and evaluate a wide range of digital and data literacy services for the SJSU community.
- Collaborate with liaison librarians and campus faculty to integrate digital and data literacy into relevant courses and campus research programs.
- Collaboratively develop, deliver and evaluate instruction on library-provided digital scholarship and data management tools.
- Provide data management and sharing consultations to researchers, ensuring compliance with open research practices and requirements from funders, publishers, and the institution.
- Lead and participate in initiatives that promote open access to knowledge and research data.
- Represent SJSU Library on campus, in the CSU system and at regional or national professional organizations on matters related to digital and data literacy.
- Engage in regional and national professional activities to advance digital and data services within academic libraries.
- Participate in shared governance, usually in department, college, and university committees and other service assignments.
- Demonstrate awareness and experience understanding the needs of a student population of great diversity through inclusive course materials, teaching strategies and advisement.
Application Procedure
Click Apply Now to complete the SJSU Online Employment Application and attach the following documents:
- Letter of interest that addresses the required qualifications for the position, including the applicant’s approach to supporting the educational goals of a socially and economically diverse student population.
- Diversity Statement (optional).
- Three references with contact information (only finalists’ references will be contacted).
Further inquiries may be directed to the Search Committee Chair: Ann Agee, ann.agee@sjsu.edu
What we look for in a potential candidate
The University is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We ask all applicants to consider including a Diversity Statement with their application package. A guide to writing this statement can be found at SJSU Diversity Statement Guidelines.
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