Assistant Librarian, Access Services

Agency

Department

The Access Services Librarian will coordinate daily circulation services including tracking course reserves documenting user borrowing standards and facilitating collection access for onsite and digital users. Additional duties will include individualized instruction at the reference desk service through academic or library committees and adherence to faculty librarian scholarship standards. The librarian may oversee a small number of part-time staff or student worker direct reports and complete basic administrative tasks.

A Presidential Proclamation issued on September 19 2025 imposes a $100000 fee on all new H1B petitions filed after September 21 2025 and Texas A&M UniversityCentral Texas will not pay this fee. Additionally a moratorium issued by Governor Abbott on January 27 2026 restricts the filing of new H1B petitions unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate. Applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer.

Responsibilities:

• Manage to 2-4 part-time employees in access services.

• Create access services schedules for the Fall Spring and Summer semesters.

• Provide training for circulation services including item lending lamination comb binding printing scanning and other related tasks.

• Develop access services policies and procedures.

• Maintain collection statistics for common access services such as annual lending gate counts and request types.

• Maintain circulation policy and permission settings in the Alma LMS.

• Staff the reference desk for 8 to 12 hours per week split across two or more shifts including one weekday evening.

• Develop collections in assigned subject fields that could include biology chemistry criminal justice sociology business or other areas depending on skill set and in partnership with faculty.

• Manage and coordinate library displays.

• Assist with library outreach and marketing as needed to help the department connect with campus and community members. Events may take place on or off campus.

• Assist with library instruction or public service events as needed.

Faculty Research and Service:

• Serves as a member of committees in the library and the university.

• Remains current in the library discipline and assigned liaison areas.

• Publishes chapters book reviews or other peer-reviewed written content for theoretical or practical aspects of the library field.

• Participates in conferences and professional organizations.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to design a variety of online and in-person general and subject-specific instruction sessions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Strong critical thinking problem-solving organizational and decision-making skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Master of Library Science (MLS) degree Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree or another equivalent from an American Library Association (ALA)-accredited university or college.
• Must be self-motivated creative and innovative with excellent interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Second masters degree with a preference for the hard sciences computer science social sciences or business.

• A bachelors degree in the hard sciences computer science social sciences or business.

• Two years of experience in a library with a preference for academic libraries.

• Experience working in access services or an adjacent role at a library with more weight given for two or more years of access services experience.

• Experience managing employees especially student workers or part-time library employees. More weight will be given for management in the context of access services.

• Experience providing library instruction.

• Experience working in reference at an academic library.

• Experience managing circulation policy and permission settings in the librarys ILS (Alma) or a similar ILS.

Salary: $58073.00

Hours: Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Supervision of Others: This position may supervise other employees.

Work Location: This is not a remote position. The selected candidate will be required to work on campus.

To Apply:

Please apply directly on our Texas A&M University-Central Texas Job Site. Applicants should submit a cover letter résumé and contact information for three professional references. Transcripts should be uploaded in the attachment section of the application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation and employment is contingent upon the institutions verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institutions procedures including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.