[Asis-l] Long Island University – Palmer School-Tenure-Track Faculty Position: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor

[Heather Ranieri]

Long Island University – Palmer School

Tenure-Track Faculty Position: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor

Opening Date: 01/01/2017; Closing Date: open until filled
The Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, one of the nation’s largest independent universities, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position. A member of the iSchool consortium, the Palmer School offers an ALA-accredited MSLIS, certificate programs in school libraries, public libraries, and archives/records management, and a Ph.D. program. Based on the former Gold Coast estate of Merriweather Post, the Palmer School offers courses in two locations on Long Island and in the Manhattan center at Bobst Library of NYU, where it offers dual master’s degrees with dozens of graduate programs from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science and the Steinhardt School. The Palmer school is the largest LIS institution in Metro New York City and has the largest MSLIS degree program in New York State. The MSLIS program is available in classroom settings and completely online.

Candidates for this position should have a background in digitization services and knowledge organization and would be expected to assist with the MSLIS and Ph.D. programs. The teaching load will be three graduate classes per semester including at least one core course; in semesters in which a Ph.D. course is taught, the course load is two courses per semester. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to contribute to the school’s mission to provide knowledge and skills to prepare students for a role as a 21st century information professional. A significant role of this faculty member would be as mentor for PhD and MSLIS students participating in a large external digitization grant. The starting date for this position is September 1, 2017.

Candidates with multiple strengths in digitization and knowledge organization and one or more additional areas will be most competitive.  Some of the areas of developing interest include:
•             Digitization
•             Digital collections
•             Metadata standards
•             Knowledge Organization
•             Cataloging and Classification
•             Information management and systems
•             Data science

Principal Responsibilities:
•             Teaching 3 courses per semester, including core classes
•             Mentoring students involved in a large-scale digitization grant program
•             Teaching and advising in the Ph.D. program
•             Original research
•             Curriculum development
•             Teaching face-to-face and on-line
•             Being able to teach traditional and non-traditional age students; and
•             Demonstrating the ability to use discipline-related instructional technology

Educational Requirements:
•             Required: An earned doctorate in the Library and Information Science or related discipline.
•             Preferred: An MLIS or equivalent degree.

Training, Skills, Knowledge, Experience:
•             Practice with digitization processes, metadata standards, or cataloging
•             Strong research skills
•             Robust research agenda
•             Knowledge of librarianship, information science, information technology, differentiation of education delivery modalities and current teaching principles and practices
•             Experience in the application of technology for course delivery
•             Demonstrated excellence in teaching
•             Experience in course/curriculum development
•             Experience mentoring students
•             Candidates should be acquainted with the Blackboard Platform for online courses and should be comfortable with hardware and software associated with digitization, metadata standards, knowledge organization, and information technology, depending on areas of expertise.

The search committee will screen all candidates; application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. LIU is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to extending equal opportunity in employment to all qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community. LIU encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States. Salary is based on a Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Please submit a cover letter, CV, and information about references at the following site:  https://jobs.liu.edu/#/job_details/273

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Heather Ranieri