Tufts University’s Tisch Library seeks an innovative, flexible, and collaborative colleague to join us as Research Librarian for the Humanities.

 The Collections and Liaison Services Department supports the research needs of Tufts Arts & Sciences and Engineering academic departments, fostering a culture of information literacy. We are seeking a colleague who can complement, strengthen, and expand partnerships across the library and the university, and address barriers that limit access to services, collections, programs, and spaces.

The Research Librarian for the Humanities builds connections with their assigned academic departments to understand the evolving needs of those departments and, working with others, to align instruction, outreach, consultation, and collection development activities to meet those needs.

A successful candidate will:

• Create effective relationships with assigned academic departments, developing an understanding of the scholarly needs of their faculty and students. Spend time outside the library participating in relevant campus and department events, with discretion to experiment in pursuit of effective support of patron need.
• Design and teach instruction sessions and offer individual research consultations that have a measurable impact on student learning, to both support immediate student need and help develop transferable skills for students’ information lives outside and beyond Tufts.
• Create and maintain instruction materials (e.g., tutorials, research guides, websites, handouts, and exercises) using best practices for usability, accessibility, and outcome-based learning design. 
• Seek opportunities to offer integrated, scaffolded, and high-impact information literacy instruction, including proposing and leading instruction beyond one-shot sessions (e.g., credit-bearing courses as part of the Tufts Experimental College, train-the-trainer workshops for faculty, multi-part retreats for thesis writers) and providing faculty with assignment development support.
• Build excellent collections in support of Tufts’ goals to be both student-centered and research-focused, including monograph selection, approval plan management, database trials and analysis, and collection review projects.  Help shape collections priorities that align with the research and learning needs of Arts & Sciences and Engineering.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across the Research & Learning division to co-teach, offer effective referrals, and support cross-department work. Through committee work and projects, share knowledge of faculty and student needs in designing responsive library services.

This full-time, full-year position is hybrid and includes work that can be done remotely as well as work that must be done on-site (e.g. classroom instruction and other programming, training, and collaboration).

The search committee will begin reviewing applications on March 28, 2025. Applications should include a cover letter.

Basic Requirements:

• Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a Master's degree in Library/Information Science from an ALA-accredited program, or international equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience providing instruction in an academic library or other public service environment
• Experience with and/or willingness to cultivate an understanding of the changing research and learning practices at a student-centered research university; to use data for decision-making; and to thrive in a collaborative, complex, and rapidly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate-level experience conducting primary source research in a relevant humanistic field, such as history, religion, classics. Knowledge of current research practices and issues in history
• Experience with and/or willingness to cultivate expertise in topics such as primary source literacies, digital humanities, and/or working with special collections
• Experience leading peers in project or committee work
• Collection development experience

About Tufts University

This is Tufts. Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway). Our employees light the way. Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world. At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you. Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most. We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging. Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world. An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen. Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at oeo@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at https://oeo.tufts.edu/

Show more

Show less

Connections working at Tufts University