[Asis-l] UCLA Assistant Professor of Children's and Young Adult Information Studies

[Suellen Coleman]

University of California, Los Angeles

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Department of Information Studies

Assistant Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Information Studies

 

The Department of Information Studies of the Graduate School of Education and Information

Studies (GSE&IS) at UCLA invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing

in children’s and young adult information studies. Located in the culturally diverse city of Los

Angeles, and in a highly inter-disciplinary school encompassing both Information Studies and

Education, the successful candidate will have research and teaching interests that relate to any

aspect of information studies--broadly conceived as encompassing library, archival and

educational approaches--hat addresses children and young adults. These interests might include,

but are not limited to, one or more of the following:

• research on information and library services to children and young adults with particular

  interest in literacy and materials in print and digital formats;

• the design and evaluation of programming for children and young adults in libraries,

  archives, museums and other institutional contexts, and engagement with them;

• the provision of information and library services in culturally diverse communities;

• the study of reading and media use in social contexts;

• intellectual freedom and the rights of children to access information, and the effects of

  censorship;

• policy development and analysis in the provision of information and library services to

  children;

• information literacy instruction and college preparedness.

 

Strong knowledge of current practices and trends and experience in children's or young adult

information and library services are highly desirable.

 

The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies is one of the top-ranked schools in

the U.S., and supports internationally recognized research centers. Within the school, the

Department of Information Studies has emerged as an innovative, interdisciplinary site for theory

and research in information studies, including archival and museum informatics, data curatorship,

information policy, new media, preservation, and textual and visual studies. The Department’s

faculty has been recognized as among the most productive and highly-cited in the field. Faculty

members have close ties across UCLA.

 

The Department offers an M.A. program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS), an M.L.I.S.

(Master of Library and Information Science) degree with specializations in archival studies,

library studies, informatics, and rare books and print and visual culture, and a Ph.D. program in

Information Studies, as well as concentrations in digital humanities and gender studies and a joint

Master’s degree with Latin American Studies.

 

All faculty in the Department teach at both master’s and doctoral levels; thus, candidates should

be able to demonstrate how their research and teaching interests and experience will help foster

the growth of the M.A., M.L.I.S., and Ph.D. programs. This position entails: teaching four fourunit courses per year, or their equivalent, in accordance with the Department’s workload policy; advising and mentoring graduate students; actively engaging in research; and actively

participating in administrative responsibilities for the Department, the School, and the University.

 

The School and the Department have strong commitments to the rich and varied multicultural

communities of the Southern California region, and a reputation for merging research and

practice in statewide, national, and international outreach and service. We seek a scholar who will

make the most of Los Angeles’ unique advantages as a setting for research that links children and

young adult services to public engagement, and for creating international connections, especially

with the Pacific Rim and Latin America. We particularly encourage applications from those

whose research and teaching address the practices, perspectives, and needs of diverse populations.

 

Rank: Assistant Professor.

 

Starting date: July 1, 2014. (Teaching duties begin late September 2014.) This position is

contingent upon final budgetary approval.

 

Qualifications: A Ph.D. or other terminal degree; a research agenda; a publication record (or

demonstrable potential for such); established teaching competence; ability to secure grant funding.

 

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. UCLA also has an attractive benefits

package.

 

To apply: On-line applications only. Please apply on-line at

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF00106

with the following items: a letter of application, outlining scholarly background as well as current and future research plans; a curriculum vitae; samples of publications; and (optionally) a statement addressing your contributions to diversity through research, teaching, and/or service. Please also have at least three confidential letters of recommendation.

 

For informal inquiries, please contact Gregory Leazer, chair of the Department, at

leazer at gseis.ucla.edu or Anne Gilliland, chair of the search committee, at

gilliland at gseis.ucla.edu.

 

Application deadline: the application date has been extended to January 6, 2014 but will

continue until filled. To ensure full consideration, applications should be complete and letters of

recommendation received by this date. The position will remain open until filled, but not later

than June 30, 2014.

 

The University of California, Los Angeles is an Affirmative Action / Equal Employment

Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. We encourage applications

from members of underrepresented groups.
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