In
compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual
base salary range for this position is $ 70,000 - $110,000. This pay
range represents base pay only (for 9 months OR for 12 months) and
excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical
compensation, or other items. New York University considers factors such
as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position,
candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal
peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when
extending an offer.
Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies
The
New York University Division of Libraries is seeking a Librarian for
Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies. This
tenure track faculty position sits within the Libraries’ Research &
Research Services subdivision and acts as the primary library liaison
for students, scholars, researchers, and artists in related areas across
NYU, including but not limited to the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin
America and the Caribbean History Program in the Department of History,
Latino Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis, and The Latinx Project.
NYU
Libraries liaisons support a wide range of needs, including teaching
and learning, research, scholarship, and the arts, by fostering
relationships and building strong outreach, engagement, instruction, and
consultation programs and partnerships. This librarian contributes to
the development of distinctive, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual,
multi-format, and intersectional collections that serve the wide-ranging
needs of faculty, students, scholars, and researchers both locally and
nationally. The ideal candidate builds on existing public and research
services to facilitate standard and new modes of scholarly inquiry. This
position has a particular emphasis on being part of, and supporting, a
community of scholars who work within Latin American, Caribbean, and
Spanish & Portuguese Studies and who focus on deep engagement with
feminist, queer, trans, LatCrit, Critical Indigenous, Critical
Caribbean, and other anti-racist perspectives. This liaison collaborates
with NYU partners to develop programs that center and prioritize the
needs of underrepresented communities.
The
position works closely with colleagues across NYU Libraries, including
our corps of 40+ liaison librarians serving the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences, and in particular with those who specialize in
area and ethnic studies (e.g., African American and Black Diaspora
Studies, History, American Studies, etc.) and those who work within
interdisciplinary areas where Spanish, Portuguese, Caribbean, and
Indigenous languages and cultures apply. This librarian cultivates
strong partnerships with other liaisons across NYU’s global network,
including colleagues at NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai, and global academic
centers in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. This
librarian is in deep cooperation with colleagues focused on teaching
and learning, collection development, description, and scholarly
communication. Beyond NYU, this position strengthens collaborations with
relevant academic and cultural institutions throughout the New York
City region and supports the movement of scholars across a city-wide
network; represents NYU in professional consortia and associations both
locally and nationally; and contributes to the development of the
national collection of materials representing Latin American, Caribbean,
and Spanish & Portuguese Studies.
Research
Faculty
librarians also pursue their own active research, contributing their
expertise, experiences, creative or artistic outputs, and investigations
to build new knowledge and make cultural contributions. The person in
this position has wide latitude in determining their own research agenda
in their chosen area(s).NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative
NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to
build a more diverse faculty community that seeks to recruit, welcome,
and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely
themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism,
Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good,
and Urban Environments and Politics. This particular position is part of
our Transformative Humanities for All: Building and Sharing the
Cultural Record cluster. The faculty in this cluster will augment NYU
Libraries’ capabilities to support academic and public knowledge
production in the humanities and related disciplines at NYU and beyond.
Positions
in this cluster will contribute to NYU’s research mission by building
and extending interconnected knowledge, descriptive, curatorial,
preservation, and technical services to support and distribute research
and inquiry that centers diverse and underrepresented voices in the
humanities and performing arts; by ethically developing, serving, and
making accessible humanistic outputs within a larger information
ecosystem concerned with openness, access, and the changing face of
scholarship; and leading the Libraries’ strategic contributions to the
work of the emerging field of Public Humanities. For full details about the Libraries cluster hiring initiative, see this link.
About New York University Libraries
The
Division of Libraries values diversity among its faculty, is committed
to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly
encourages applications from members of underrepresented communities. We
are proud of our organizational culture and are committed to building
and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization that
supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve.
For
more information regarding the Libraries’ commitment to Inclusion,
Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Accessibility (IDBEA), see the Libraries’ Mission & Values Statement, our Diversity and Inclusion Values Statement, and our Commitment to Anti-Racism.
Libraries
at New York University serve the school’s 40,000 students and faculty
and contain more than 5 million volumes. The Libraries supports NYU’s
vision to become the first true Global Network University by
collaborating with and providing services to our 11 global academic
centers and our “portal campuses” in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. New York
University Libraries is a member of the Association of Research
Libraries, the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and the HathiTrust.
The Libraries participate in a variety of consortia and collaborate
closely with Columbia University Libraries and the New York Public
Library through the Manhattan Research Library Consortium.
Qualifications:
Required:
Minimum one graduate degree (Master’s level or higher), conferred by start date, for consideration. A second graduate degree will be required to be eligible for tenure. One of the two graduate degrees must be an ALA-accredited MLS/MLIS or equivalent.
Substantive experience in one or more fields germane to this position, such as Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies, or Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures.
Full professional fluency in reading, writing, and speaking English and Spanish.
Demonstrated experience with research libraries and their role in furthering the mission of the University and its communities.
Experience providing public service and/or research support.
Experience delivering instructional programming.
Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility (IDBEA).
Comfort operating in both physical and virtual work environments.
Preferred:
A graduate degree in a field related to Latin America, the Caribbean, or Spanish Studies.
Coursework, scholarship, or other experience working with Indigenous cultures or communities from Latin America or the Caribbean.
Experience building research collections in a library setting.
Familiarity with other languages of the regions covered by this position, for example Portuguese, Quechua, or Haitian Creole.
Knowledge of current and emerging pedagogical issues, practices, and trends in academic libraries and/or university environments, including critical and/or antiracist approaches to inclusive teaching, learning, and research.
Experience working across organizational boundaries in a dynamic and highly collaborative working environment.
Salary/Benefits:
This
position is open rank with faculty status, and includes an attractive
benefits package, including five weeks of annual vacation.
The
typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the
Division of Libraries as a Full Curator in the academic year 2024-2025
is $105,000.
The
typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the
Division of Libraries as an Associate Curator in the academic year
2024-2025 is $94,000.
The
typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the
Division of Libraries as an Assistant Curator in the academic year
2024-2025 is $88,000.
The
typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the
Division of Libraries as a Library Associate in the academic year
2024-2025 is $84,000.
To Apply:
To ensure consideration, submit your CV and letter of application,
including the name, address, and telephone number of three references.
NYU Division of Libraries requires all candidates for this position to
supply a statement demonstrating their commitment to inclusion,
diversity, equity, belonging, and accessibility as part of their
application. Access the Diversity Statement prompt here: https://nyu.app.box.com/v/diversity-statement.
All applications for consideration must be submitted to http://apply.interfolio.com/141791
Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
Preference will be given to applications received by April 1, 2024.
To learn more about the position, join us for an optional and anonymous info session webinar on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 4 pm EST - Register here: https://NYU_Libraries_Info_Session.eventbrite.com
Meet
NYU librarians, staff, and committee members at this info session who
will supply an overview of the role and opportunities to ask questions.
Attendance is not required to apply. Participation is voluntary and
confidential in Zoom webinar format.
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