Teaching and Learning Librarian
Appointment Type and Rank
One-Year Term Appointment at General, Assistant, Associate, or Senior rank commensurate to experience
Number of Positions
One (1)
Posting Date
June 24, 2026
Closing Date to Apply
July 25, 2026
Anticipated Start Date
October 1, 2026
Position Profile
Teaching and Learning (T&L) Librarians design, deliver, and assess accessible learning experiences that deliver the Western Libraries Curriculum. These experiences assume various modes—online and in-person, synchronous and asynchronous—and support the curricular, co-curricular, and academic activities of Western students, teaching faculty, and staff. Teaching and Learning Librarians collaborate with colleagues across Western Libraries to ensure the provision of integrated, user-centred library services that support learning, teaching excellence, and research. T&L Librarians have subject responsibilities within one or more disciplinary areas. This position is anticipated to focus on Health and Medicine. The position reports to the Head, Teaching and Learning.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and implementation of library instruction planning grounded in epistemic justice to support the curricular, co-curricular, and academic activities of Western
- Collaborate closely with campus partners across the curriculum cycle at the institutional, faculty/departmental, and course level
- Design and deliver effective in-person and online learning experiences, including the provision of research consultations, the creation of a variety of learning objects (for example, lesson plans, rubrics, assignments, and online modules), and knowledge justice programming, as articulated in the Western Libraries Curriculum
- Provide instruction, consultations, and support to students and faculty conducting systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other types of knowledge synthesis
- Collaborate with colleagues across Western Libraries to accelerate excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship
- Contribute to Western Libraries disciplinary communities of practice, including engagement in the Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP)
- Understand and effectively apply various teaching theories and pedagogies in support of multiple learning preferences and access needs
- Develop and administer appropriate assessment measures to evaluate student learning
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend teaching and learning technologies to support student learning
- Iterate existing and future projects in response to assessment in order to improve user outcomes
- Organize and deliver professional development for Western University faculty and staff in epistemic justice, library research, innovative pedagogies, and/or technologies related to teaching and learning
- Serve as a contributing member of Western Libraries Teaching and Learning team, including attending regular meetings and assisting with ongoing operational planning and assessment
- Represent Western Libraries at campus events and professional meetings and conferences
Academic Expectations
Each Member with Responsibilities in the area of Academic Activity shall be entitled and expected to engage in Academic Activity, which involves some or all of: the creation of new knowledge, including understanding or concepts; the creative application of existing knowledge; the organization and synthesis of existing knowledge; creative expression; all in whatever media are appropriate to the Member’s area of academic expertise.
Members shall disseminate the results of Academic Activity. It is the responsibility of Members to make the results of their Academic Activity available for independent review and assessment in a form which can be evaluated by peers. This normally entails invited or refereed journal publication, invited or refereed papers or conference presentations, published monographs, or other vehicles or media, as are appropriate to the Member’s area of Academic Activity.
Academic Activity directly related to performance in Professional Practice is encouraged. Where a Member’s Academic Activity is judged by peer review to represent a development of materials or methods of an innovative sort or an academic advance, with application wider than the Member’s own Professional Practice, then such work may be counted either as Professional Practice or as Academic Activity, but not both.
Qualifications or Experience and Skills Required
- Master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association (ALA), or equivalent degree, or a PhD degree in library and information science, or equivalent degree
- Experience with teaching, consultation, and/or curricular design
- Familiarity with technologies used to support student learning
- Experience creating LibGuides and digital learning objects
- Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, accessibility, decolonization, and/or Indigenization work
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational skills to set and balance priorities, manage competing deadlines, and take on multiple projects and responsibilities
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Initiative, innovativeness, resourcefulness, and flexibility necessary to develop relationships across Western Libraries and beyond, particularly with various academic departments
- Excellent communication skills
Asset Qualifications
- Knowledge of disciplines within Health and Medicine, including research methods and resources such as systematic and scoping reviews
- Knowledge of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and its application to post-secondary teaching and learning
Compensation Details
Salary Range: $80,000-$130,000
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