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Job Posting: Part-Time Librarian

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Part-Time Librarian Pool, Chabot College

The Position

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a pool of part-time librarians at Chabot College in Hayward, CA. The position reports to the Division Dean.

Deadline: Open until Filled.

Salary

The hourly salary is $ 49.24 at Step One.

Assignment

The position is part-time librarian. Employment will begin as soon as possible. Hours can include evenings, Fridays or Saturdays.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Master's Degree in Library Science

Demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience providing instruction in an academic library;
• Familiarity with information competency/literacy concepts and programs;
• Awareness of various learning styles and teaching strategies;
• Enthusiastic approach to working collaboratively with students, faculty and staff including those who have not had an opportunity to use new technologies;
• Willingness to facilitate student’s learning by working to develop varied and innovative learning environments;
• Experience with HTML, multimedia and presentation software;
• Experience with Libguides and various electronic databases;
• Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills;
• Interest in promoting library services to a multicultural population;
• Experience teaching classes utilizing effective search strategies to access resource;


Particular Job Characteristics

• Teach effective research strategies in print and online resources;
• Provide reference services in a multimedia environment to students, staff and faculty;
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing;


Candidates invited to interview may be asked for additional information and may be required to present a brief teaching demonstration on an assigned topic.

In addition to a resume, please also submit a Diversity Statement. In it, the successful applicant must demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities. Please provide how you demonstrate this minimum qualification and in ways that are directly relevant to position for which you are applying.

Submit the resume and the Diversity Statement to:

Heather Hernandez
Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
hhernandez@chabotcollege.edu
(510)723-6763

Criticism on Great Works of Literature--Online!

Who ever thought criticism begins online?! It now does at Chabot!

The Library is always looking to improve its online presence with full text resources, and this year with respect to English 4, the popular course of the Writing and Critical Thinking requirement for General Education, we have purchased a great number of E-Books so that everyone now has unlimited simultaneous access to more books devoted to literary criticism.

These are in addition to our main database of literary criticism, Literature Resource Center and journals in Academic Search Elite.

Through Literature Criticism Online, Short Story Criticism presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of three to six short story writers, works, or topics and a historical survey of the critical response. The Library has gotten all 150 volumes online and will be getting all future volumes in this format.

The Library has also purchased around 900 books in Gale Virtual Reference Library devoted to literary figures and literary criticism, including the entire Twayne series, spanning 860 E-books devoted to individual authors and works.

The Library has purchased over 40 additional E-books on literary criticism devoted to individual authors and texts in the ABC-CLIO ebook collection.

For the above, all individual texts are also in the Library Catalog. So students can find both our print and online texts of criticisms devoted to individual literary authors!

Finally, for students that want to find full-text poems and short stories on particular subjects or by authors, LitFinder provides it easily, including some works with copyright permission to appear here. It also provides indexing information to print materials.

Great literary critics abound online!

Contemporary Reading Shelves--In Motion: The Great Black Migration

Chabot Library Celebrates Black History Month

STOP by the library and check-out our current book display, “In Motion: The Great Black Migration,” in celebration of Black History Month. Learn about the African-American migration experience through the voices of extraordinary men and women who endured a culture of slavery and oppression in this country. While researching this month’s display, I came across powerful texts and authors, like the work of Dr. Carole Marks, who along with eleven other scholars contributed to In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience (http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm), an excellent online resource on this subject.

Her essay, “The Great Migration: African-Americans Searching for the Promised Land, 1916-1930,” is available in its entirety at this web site. In her essay she writes, “the Great Migration was about migrants starting over and making sacrifices for future generations whom they would probably never see. As W.E.B. DuBois concluded, the journey North represented not the end of a struggle but only its beginning.”

Over Two Thousand New E-Books at Chabot Library!

The Library is proud to announce that our E-Books collection has grown tremendously. With our purchase with most other community colleges across the state, we now have over 2,000 books that can be accessed through NetLibrary.

These individual books will also eventually also appear in the Library Catalog. But for now, go into NetLibrary and find an online book on your topic! If you have questions, contact us!

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