User Engagement and First-Year Experience Librarian

The First-Year Experience & User Engagement Librarian plays a key role in advancing student success and enhancing engagement with library services and spaces. With a particular focus on first-year students, the librarian is responsible for improving the effectiveness and accessibility of services, developing new user-centered programs, and promoting the library through active outreach and use of social media platforms.

The librarian serves as a key advocate for the Learning Commons, positioning it as a vibrant, inclusive, and student-focused environment that supports academic inquiry, creative work, informal learning and collaboration. The role promotes the effective use of library informal spaces, resources, and technologies to enhance learning and engagement.

The position also leads the ongoing development and enhancement of the self-paced information literacy course and supports initiatives that advance digital and AI literacy.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across the library and university, the librarian serves as a liaison to selected academic undergraduate programs, co-develops and delivers instructional content, and contributes to the design and implementation of services that strengthen undergraduate research support, discovery, and student learning.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Lead and coordinate first-year student engagement initiatives, outreach events that promote student engagement with the library, including orientations, tours, and campus-wide activities.
• Promote awareness and use of library services, resources, learning commons & informal spaces and technologies among new and incoming students through targeted communications and events.
• Lead the ongoing development and enhancement of the library's self-paced, information literacy course, primarily designed for first-year students.
• Design, deliver, and assess instructional materials?including workshops, online tutorials, learning modules, and orientation content?to build foundational research and information literacy skills.
• Integrate relevant digital tools, databases, AI platforms, and emerging research technologies to support student learning and engagement
• Collaborate with the Center for Learning and Teaching to ensure the course remains pedagogically sound, engaging, and accessible to diverse learners.
• Serve as the library liaison to designated academic departments or programs, providing tailored research support, instruction, and resource recommendations.
• Collaborate with campus partners (Academy of Liberal Arts, Enrolment and Dean Students) to support broader first-year experience (FYE) efforts, including school visits and recruitment events
• Serve as the primary library contact for all FYE initiatives, maintaining active partnerships with key campus programs that support first-year students.
• Lead assessments of library activities including informal learning spaces, services, digital platforms, the information literacy self-pace course?etc to evaluate and enhance user experience
• Engage in ongoing professional development.

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