Join a vibrant equity-minded campus whose excellence is reflected in its community, cultural engagement, and student success. West Chester University (WCU) Libraries invites applicants for a Full-time, 9-month, Tenure-Track, Discovery Service Librarian (Assistant Professor) position. The position begins in August 2026. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Collaborate with the Resource Services Unit and other relevant stakeholders to support the Libraries’ e-resource ecosystem, discovery, and the successful interoperability between systems.
• Organize and lead discovery and e-resource related initiatives and teams. 
• Collaborate with others on interface evaluation, assessment, and usability studies to improve the user experience and access to the library collections, resources, and open access content.
• Set standards, policies, and best practices for the effective use of discovery services, tools, and metadata.
• Promote discovery, e-resources, and services through educational programming, trainings, and/or materials.
• Participate in Research Help Desk rotation for on-site and virtual reference, including some evening and weekend shifts, and offer research consultations as needed
• Support faculty and students with values grounded in diversity, equity, inclusivity, belonging, and social justice 
• Serve as a subject specialist to one or more areas to be determined at the time of offer and participate in collection development and the University Libraries’ instruction program.
• Engage in scholarship and service. This is necessary for tenure and promotion process.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a Library Science program or a closely related degree from an accredited American Library Association program.
• At least 2 years of professional experience in an academic library, consortial, or research environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate in writing and verbally, and present dynamically to a variety of constituents.
• Experience with the back-end management or operations of an integrated library system and/or discovery layer.
• Ability to collaborate or develop programs with goals that work towards equity, inclusion, and belonging.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated project management skills, and strong analytical problem-solving skills; and/or
• Demonstrated experience supporting cloud-based library systems and their discovery layers such as PrimoVE; and/or
• Working knowledge or educational coursework related to library metadata and/or linked data; and/or 
• Knowledge of standards and best practices for web accessibility and ADA compliance; and/or 
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a collegial academic setting; and/or 
• Second advanced degree or additional graduate coursework. Additional education is necessary for promotion; and/or  
• Record of professional service and publication/presentations/scholarly achievement; and/or
• Experience providing reference and research services in-person and/or virtually to individuals or groups of students and faculty; and/or
• Experience teaching at an academic library.

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