Music Teaching and Research Services Librarian

Department: User Engagement
Rank and Salary: Assistant Librarian to Associate Librarian ($69,781 - $98,667)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: May 15, 2025

The UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative, user-focused professional for the position of Music Teaching & Research Services Librarian. Reporting to the Director of Arts, Music, and Powell Libraries (AMP), the incumbent is responsible for providing services in teaching, research and outreach for music and music-related disciplines; supporting faculty, researchers, students, and other stakeholders in their research and creative work, and liaising with the Herb Alpert School of Music – the Ethnomusicology, Music, and Musicology departments and programs or centers in Armenian Music, Iranian Music, Global Jazz, Latino Arts, Music of American Jewish Experience, Musical Humanities, and Music Industry.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Lead teaching and research initiatives for the music library, including developing scaffolded information literacy interventions to meet disciplinary and course needs for undergraduate and graduate students in music and music-related disciplines;
• Support library instruction broadly, teaching courses outside of the Music School and/or serving as a liaison to the Cluster program.
• Share responsibility for training and supervising graduate student employees (LSRAs);
• Provide reference and research support for students, faculty and researchers in music in collaboration with AMP User Engagement colleagues;
• Support reference and research broadly, including helping to monitor chat and email questions for the general UCLA Library account
• Engage in and contribute to development in outreach activities, including collaborative development of events, concerts, and exhibitions;
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure spaces related to teaching, research, and outreach in the Music Library adapt to changing needs;
• Maintain awareness of changes and trends within relevant disciplines and campus programs;
• Contribute to activities related to evaluating, selecting, and managing materials to ensure that Library collections serve the vast variety of music programs offered at UCLA.
• Collaboratively support the digital preservation and streaming access for audio formats (currently utilizing Avalon Media Systems);
• Serve as co-liaison to the Herb Alpert School of Music and any other department needing music-related support.
• Actively contribute to User Engagement cross-departmental collaborative teams and Library wide initiatives; and
• Work with Library Development to identify, cultivate, and steward donors, collections, and gift funds.

Additionally, the successful candidate will be committed to engagement with and promotion of the UCLA Principles of Community and the True Bruin Values.

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

Under federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to work in the United States as established by providing documents specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employment is contingent upon completion of satisfactory background investigation.

General Information

Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. Librarians at UCLA are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This is a represented position. They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance may be provided.
Appointees to the librarian series at UC shall have professional backgrounds that demonstrate a high degree of creativity, teamwork, and flexibility. Additionally, librarians are evaluated on consistency of performance, grasp of library methods, command of their subjects, continued growth in their fields, judgment, leadership, originality, ability to work effectively with others, and ability to relate their functions to the more general goals of the library and the University. Such background will normally include a professional degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science graduate program. In addition to professional competence and quality of service within the library in the primary job, advancement in the librarian series requires professional involvement and contributions outside of the library, and/or university and community service, and/or scholarly activities. Candidates must show evidence or promise of such contributions.

Description of Unit

User Engagement (UE) unites public services librarians and staff across three major divisions (Sciences; Arts, Music, and Powell; and Management/Humanities and Social Sciences) and four cross-departmental teams (Collections; Outreach; Research; and Teaching and Learning) The UE group is a matrixed organization designed to enhance library services through a cross-disciplinary and cross-functional approach.

The Arts, Music, and Powell division unites 12 librarians and 3 staff across three library locations. The unit supports research and teaching in a wide variety of subjects and at all levels, including specialized collections and services for art, architecture, theater, film and television, music, musicology, and ethnomusicology. The Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library provides teaching and research resources to the Herb Alpert School of Music and serves the wider UCLA community as well as members of the public. The collections consist of online resources (including streaming audio); books; periodicals; music scores; and audio and video recordings. Facilities in the Music Library include the reading room, classroom, seminar room, and Studio A, an audiovisual makerspace. Staffing includes 2 FTE librarians, 3 FTE library assistants, and student employees.

Description of Institution and Library

As one of the world's great public research universities, UCLA integrates education, research, and public service so that each enriches and extends the others. From its beautiful neighborhood campus in a uniquely diverse and vibrant city on the Pacific Rim, teaching and research extend beyond the classroom, office, and lab through active engagement with communities, organizations, projects, and partnerships throughout the region and around the world.

UCLA’s diverse community of scholars encompasses nearly 30,000 undergraduates pursuing 125 majors, 13,000 graduate students in fifty-nine research programs, and 4,000 faculty members including Nobel Laureates; Rhodes Scholars; MacArthur Fellows; winners of the Fields Medal, National Medal of Science, Pritzker Prize, and Pulitzer Prize; and recipients of Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, and Golden Globes. UCLA ranks tenth in the Times of London Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, twelfth in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and fifth in the U.S. by Washington Monthly. The National Research Council ranks forty of its graduate and doctoral research programs among its top ten.

To enable our accomplished students, faculty, and staff to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge for the benefit of global society, the UCLA Library is re-envisioning how it acquires, synthesizes, and shares knowledge and information across academic audiences and with the public. The services and expertise we provide via our collections connect users to their learning needs, their research, or their creative efforts. We do this by ensuring discoverability; engaging in curricular support and advancing information literacy for our students; by offering scaled support asynchronously, through online training modules, and research support. We offer targeted services for our graduate and undergraduate students trying to solve a problem, understand a system, or learning how to use a new tool to responsibly manipulate and explore data. We develop public programming, exhibitions, curated experiences, and other engagement opportunities to connect our unique collections, cultural materials, research resources, and services with the campus and greater LA communities fostering discovery, dialogue, and access to collections for visitors, researchers and lifelong learners alike. The Library serves UCLA students, faculty, and staff whenever and wherever they need its resources and expertise. Reconfigured, high-tech spaces and services in its ten campus libraries enable users and librarians to explore and work with print and digital materials collaboratively or individually, pursue new lines of inquiry, and develop new pedagogical approaches as well as novel forms of scholarship. More than 3.5 million people visit annually, while an additional 3.4 million visitors enter online through its virtual front doors.

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