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The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a creative, enthusiastic, collaborative, and user-centered librarian to support world-class research and teaching in the sciences. The position serves as the selector and liaison for public health and optometry, actively engaging with instruction, information literacy, research assistance, collection development, scholarly communications, data services, and outreach to students, faculty, and the broader academic community.

The Environment
The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned teaching and research facility at one of the nation's premier public universities. A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 30,000 undergraduate students, over 11,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 13 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills.
The Library’s Sciences Division consists of five libraries including the Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, where this position is based. The Division staff include 10 librarians, 15 staff, and over 50 student employees, who collectively support the research, teaching, and study needs of students and faculty in the College of Chemistry, College of Engineering, College of Natural Resources, College of Letters & Science’s Biological Sciences Division, College of Letters & Science’s Mathematical & Physical Sciences Division, College of Computing, Data Science & Society’s Departments of EECS and Statistics, Department of Geography, School of Optometry, School of Public Health, and an array of Organized Research Units. The Sciences Division actively strives to create a welcoming, collaborative, inclusive, and accessible culture.

Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of the Sciences Division, the Public Health & Optometry Librarian supports students and researchers who are creating solutions to pressing public health threats, becoming technically and clinically skilled practitioners, and pushing forward a vision of the right to a healthy life through cutting-edge research, world-class education, and community engagement. As a subject librarian, the successful candidate develops an understanding of research and teaching in their assigned departments, follows trends in those disciplines, and builds relationships with faculty, staff, and students through active engagement and outreach – conducting assessments of user needs, offering virtual and in-person research consultations, providing basic support for systematic reviews, developing students’ data and information literacies, teaching course-related library instruction and workshops, creating instructional materials in a variety of formats, and promoting library resources and services.

The librarian serves as the selector and liaison for Berkeley Public Health and the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science. To build research-level collections, the librarian contributes to collaborative collection development and management – collecting and curating information in a variety of formats including books, journals, and databases to support teaching and research in the sciences. This requires collaboration with other librarians on campus and within the UC System on interdisciplinary and/or system-wide collection decisions and scholarly communication issues.

The successful candidate will also play a key role in cultivating information literacy and research skills among students in the sciences, especially undergraduates. The librarian will partner with the STEM Research & Instructional Services Lead and other librarians to conduct curriculum reviews, identify instruction targets, and revise our library instruction program for the introductory biology laboratory course. The ideal candidate is committed to professional growth in the areas of instructional theory and practice and may team up with other science librarians to incorporate evidence-based and inclusive pedagogy into their own instruction.

UC Berkeley librarians are expected to participate in library-wide planning and governance, and work effectively in a shared decision-making environment. Advancement is partially based upon professional contributions beyond the primary assignment; the successful candidate will show evidence or promise of such contributions to the Library, campus, UC System, and profession.

The UC Berkeley Library is committed to supporting and encouraging a multicultural environment and seeks candidates who can make positive and imaginative contributions in a context of ethnic and cultural diversity.

UC professional librarians are academic appointees and are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, the University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT).

This position is in the bargaining unit. Librarians are eligible for professional development leave, vacation leave, sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits.

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The excellence of the institution requires an environment in which the diverse community of faculty, students, and staff are welcome and included. Successful candidates will demonstrate knowledge and skill related to ensuring equity and inclusion in the activities of their academic position (e.g., teaching, research, and service, as applicable).

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

Please refer to the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy and the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.