Assistant Librarian

Assistant Librarian

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The Ruth Lilly Medical Library seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and talented Liaison Librarian. This position will plan, promote, and provide instruction and information services that support the needs of students, residents, faculty, researchers, and staff at the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). In addition to serving as liaison to the Terre Haute IU School of Medicine campus, the successful candidate will have an opportunity to develop a specialty area that reflects their interests and expertise while advancing established priorities of the School of Medicine and the Library. This is a tenure-track faculty position reporting to the Associate Director for Public Services.

IUSM is committed to being a welcoming campus community and we seek candidates whose research, teaching, and community engagement efforts contribute to robust learning and working environments for all students, staff, and faculty. We invite individuals who will join us in our mission to improve health equity and well-being for all throughout the state of Indiana. We encourage early-career librarians to apply even if your experience does not cover all preferred qualifications. We appreciate that librarians bring a wide variety of valuable life and work experience. We are committed to working with our colleagues to develop the skills needed to support the mission of IU School of Medicine and the greater librarian community.

Responsibilities include serving as a liaison to the Terre Haute campus, departments/groups across our nine-campus statewide system, and providing and contributing to curriculum, course development, training, and workshops for IU School of Medicine students, faculty, and staff. The librarian will also provide reference and expert searching services to support research, clinical practice, and medical education, conduct literature searches and support systematic reviews, and participate in a team approach to providing prompt and effective consultation, instructional services, and reference expertise to students, faculty, and staff.

Basic qualifications required include an ALA-accredited Master's degree or an equivalent advanced degree in a relevant field at the time of hire, experience or training in delivering instruction at the college/university level, ability to work in a collaborative work environment and maintain positive professional working relationships with faculty members, supervisor, and peers, demonstrated ability to design accessible written learning materials, and ability to travel to IU School of Medicine regional campuses to deliver in-person instruction as required. Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are also required.

Priority application review deadline is 10/26/2026. Expected start date is 01/01/2027. Posting number is IUSM-02511-2026.