Educational Technologies and Online Learning Librarian
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston

Reporting to the Head of Reference, Outreach, Instruction, and Public
Services, the Educational Technologies and Online Learning Librarian works
collaboratively as part of the ROI team to provide high-quality user education
and information support services.

  
Healey Library maintains a long-standing tradition of offering top-quality,
user-centric education and support as a key component of the intellectual and
scholarly community at a research-extensive public university. In serving as
the Educational Technologies and Online Learning Librarian, this person plays
a critical leadership and strategic role in directing the expansion of our
online instructional efforts in the university libraries. This Librarian plays
a key role in helping us build online instructional content that can be used
both with learners who are located on campus and with students, faculty, and
staff who are not physically on campus. This instructional content might be
prepackaged content from library vendors, such as Credo and Imagine Easy,
content developed in-house through various web tutorial authoring platforms,
or some combination of the two approaches.

  
In addition to implementing new technologies and pedagogies, the Librarian
will work closely with university faculty, administration, IT staff, and other
stakeholders to integrate online learning and assessment into the UMB
curriculum. This position also provides core ROI services, such as providing
reference and research assistance, teaching information literacy instruction
sessions, and other functions that allow Healey Library to maintain a
responsive, agile, user-centered approach to connecting library users with
high-quality resources and efficient and effective research strategies.

  
Healey Library prizes innovation and creativity in providing library services,
and ROI librarians are expected to explore, experiment, and innovate both in
their own work and through collaborative practice with the ROI team. ROI
librarians keep each other apprised of educational technologies, innovative
teaching practices, service ideas from other universities or libraries, and
ideas for engaging in a cycle of continuous evaluation and improvement of the
services offered. ROI librarians participate in assessment initiatives,
technology pilots both within the library and sponsored by the information
technology department, and collaborative practice based on idea generation and
idea sharing, with the understanding that these ideas may be generated and
shared among the ROI team, among other library departments, among other
departments and programs across campus, or even among colleagues at different
schools and colleges.

  
ROI librarians maintain membership in relevant professional organizations and
participate in regular and ambitious professional development opportunities
both through local and national conference and meeting attendance, and by
sharing ideas and scholarship with the UMB community and beyond through
publications and presentations.

  
Required Qualifications: A Master's degree in library or information science
from an ALA - accredited program or equivalent. Two-three years professional,
post-MLS experience. Knowledge of information literacy theories and practices.
Strong grounding in pedagogy and learning theories. Experience and expertise
with a vast array of educational technologies and web authoring tools,
including tutorial software and learning management systems. Ability to train
staff, students, and colleagues in educational technologies, software, and
programs. Experience in creating online learning objects, including tutorials,
videos, and instructional guides. Experience with synchronous and asynchronous
online learning theories and practice. Capacity for working enthusiastically,
flexibly, and creatively in a student - centered environment. Commitment to
working in a team-based, collaborative environment. Demonstrated ability to
work independently and collaboratively with people of diverse backgrounds. In-
depth knowledge of the research process and with evolving models of scholarly
communication. Excellent interpersonal skills; verbal and written
communication skills. Demonstrated organizational and time management skills.

  
Preferred Qualifications: Second master's degree. Classroom teaching
experience. Assessment experience. Experience in managing vendor
relationships. Outreach experience to faculty, students, and staff in an
academic environment.



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