Student Success Librarian

Position: Student Success Librarian

Status: Full time, year-round, exempt, faculty appointment

Department: Joan Weill Adirondack Library

Reports to: Director of Library Services

Salary: $55,000-$62,000 annual salary

Anticipated start date: August 2025

College Background:

Paul Smith’s College is a private, four-year institution with approximately 750 students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Known as the “College of the Adirondacks,” we are the only baccalaureate-granting institution located within the six-million-acre, world-famous, “forever-wild” Adirondacks in New York’s North Country.

Built on the site of the Adirondacks’ first wilderness resort, Paul Smith’s Hotel, the college is a haven for those who thrive on adventure. We are renowned for our exceptionally hands-on academics, inclusive community, spectacular location, and significant impact on the world around us.

Department Description:

The Joan Weill Adirondack Library provides staff, collections, instruction, space, and services that enhance teaching, learning, research and scholarship for the campus and broader community. Our library and its staff strive to serve as a partner in the learning process, and expand beyond our position as custodians of resources and into meaningful collaboration and conversation on campus.

Position Description:

Paul Smith’s College is seeking applicants for the position of Student Success Librarian. This position works collaboratively across campus to provide information literacy instruction, student outreach, engagement, both inside and outside of the library. The Student Success Librarian will be the campus’s expert on Information Literacy and will work on its delivery and assessment through in-class library instruction, Faculty collaborations, and other initiatives. In collaboration with the Library Director and staff, this position helps to manage our Student Worker Program, provides references and circulation services and supports other library initiatives. We are seeking an energetic, creative, and learning-centered candidate to join our small team and work to advance information literacy, outreach, and assessment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Plans Information Literacy instruction, coordinating both required and requested sessions.
• Teaches the library’s instruction sessions and creates reusable instructional materials (lesson plans, tutorials, modules, etc.).
• Designs ways of integrating library resources and services into the daily lives of students and collaborates with Faculty to integrate library resources into courses and the curriculum.
• Creates student learning outcomes and assessment materials related to Information Literacy
• Enables collaboration between the library and other departments, committees, and student groups on campus to create initiatives that foster student success.
• Collaborates to manage thriving student worker program to encourage career readiness in student employees and assist library technician in student worker management.
• Creates educationally and institutionally relevant programs and events in coordination with Student Workers and Library Staff.
• Maintains knowledge of current and emerging trends, issues, and best practices in academic library outreach, instruction, information access, and assessment. Actively seeks relevant initiatives for local implementation.
• Provides proactive, user-centered service to library users.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Preferences:

• MLIS degree from an American Library Association accredited library program.
• Information Literacy Instruction or related teaching experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and web editing software. Experience with LMS such as Canvas.
• Experience using software such as SirsiDynix Symphony ILS, LibGuides, Canvas LMS.
• Ability to integrate resources into reference and library instruction services and a strong familiarity with academic resources.
• Interest in working with patrons in one-on-one and group situations.
• Experience in marketing and image editing software such as Photoshop or Canva is a plus.
• Strong personal service philosophy and solid interpersonal and communication skills.
• Willingness to share the varied workload of a small college library in a team atmosphere.
• Ability to work some evening and weekend hours.
• Ability to work with a broad range of diverse individuals and groups to form a safe and inclusive campus community.
• Cover Letter, CV/resume, and list of at least three professional references required. Inclusion of a Diversity Statement, addressing the role of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts in academic libraries and in campus-wide DEI initiatives, is encouraged.

This Student Success Librarian position is key to maintaining the legacy of Paul Smith’s College’s historic hospitality, while looking toward the future by promoting sustainability, local business, and community.

Paul Smith’s College values diversity in the College community and seeks to assure equal opportunity through its continued Affirmative Action program. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V