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Reference Librarian position, Hunter College, NYC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louise S. Sherby)
Tue Mar 16 20:00:58 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:08:49 -0500
From: "Louise S. Sherby" <lsherby@HUNTER.CUNY.EDU>
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HUNTER COLLEGE
OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN/HEALTH PROFESSIONS LIBRARY
Instructor or Assistant Professor
Reporting to Head, Health Professions Library at Hunter College's Brookdale
campus, provides reference service, online searching, library instruction,
and collection development; participates in website content development;
serves as faculty liaison with one or more health sciences departments;
assists patrons in the use of OPAC, electronic resources, online services,
and the Internet/WWW; develops instructional publications in various
formats; supervises the computer lab. Qualifications: Required: Instructor:
M.L.S., or its equivalent from an ALA-accredited library school. Assistant
Professor: M.L.S., or its equivalent from an ALA-accredited library school,
and an additional Master's degree or Doctorate. Highly desirable:
Experience in academic or health sciences reference, electronic resources,
online searching, bibliographic instruction, and collection development;
subject degree in one of the health sciences; excellent communication and
interpersonal skills; ability to meet requirements for promotion and
tenure. Salary: Instructor: $32,133 - $52,123; Assistant Professor: $35,031
- $61,111, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Excellent
fringe benefits. 35-hour, 5-day work week, including some evening and/or
weekend hours.
Hunter College, the second oldest college in The City University of New
York, is a coeducational, fully accredited college, with a large and
diverse faculty in the liberal arts and sciences and in several
professional schools. Hunter's total enrollment is approximately 20,000
students. Of these, about 8,000 are full-time undergraduate, an additional
7,000 are part-time students, and over 4,000 are graduate students studying
in arts and sciences, teacher education and professional programs at the
Schools of Arts and Sciences, Education, Social Work, and Health Professions.
Located at the Brookdale Campus, the reorganized Schools of the Health
Professions comprises two prestigious units of the college: The
Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing and the School of Health Sciences. One of
the largest of its kind in the country, the Hunter-Bellevue School of
Nursing offers accredited B.S. and M.S. degrees in nursing. Programs
available at the School of Health Sciences include both graduate and
undergraduate areas of study. The B.S. degree is offered in Medical
Laboratory Sciences, Community Health Education, and Nutrition and Food
Science. Graduate degrees are offered in Communication Sciences (M.S.),
Physical Therapy (M.P.T.), Urban Public Health (M.P.H. and M.S.), Community
Health Education (M.P.H.), Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
(M.S. and M.P.H. pending), and Public Health Nutrition (M.P.H. pending).
With a professional staff of 23 librarians, Hunter College Library contains
over 750,000 volumes, 2,300 current periodical titles, and a nonprint
collection of discs, tapes, scores, CD-ROMs, microforms, art slides and
digitized slides. The library resources of Hunter College are available
through CUNY+, an automated library system, which provides access to all
CUNY library collections.
Position is available July 1, 2004. Review of applications will begin
immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Send resume and
names (with addresses, telephone, fax numbers, email addresses) of at least
three current references to:
Dr. Louise S. Sherby
Chief Librarian
Hunter College Libraries
695 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10021
Louise.Sherby@hunter.cuny.edu
