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Academic Librarian Positions

Special Collections Reference Librarian

The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks a Reference Librarian to oversee the research functions of its Special Collections Division. This faculty position, which reports to the Assistant Director for Special Collections, will partner with Library archivists and curators in providing resources to researchers, teaching classes, and promoting collections to students, faculty, and community groups.

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Collection Development Librarian

The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks a proactive and creative librarian to join our faculty as the Collection Development Librarian. This highly collaborative, tenure-track position offers an opportunity to work with committed and knowledgeable colleagues who are dedicated to making scholarly resources available to a diverse community of students, faculty, and researchers. Reporting to the Head of Collection Management, you will be responsible for a broad range of collection development activities, with a particular focus on overseeing print and electronic serials resources. You will play a key leadership role in ensuring access to information for teaching and scholarship. You will serve as a primary collection development contact for librarians, library staff, patrons, faculty, other libraries, and vendors.

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Benefited Staff Positions

Systems Administrator

This Systems Administrator position on the Marriott Library’s Client Platform Services team plays an important role in making technology accessible to a diverse set of users. Students, staff, and faculty across the University will rely on the server & client infrastructure you design, configure, and build. The Marriott Library is a leader in implementing innovative client services for students on our campus and a well-known contributor of popular open-source solutions for Apple technology management & configuration. We have a long history of presenting and sharing IT technologies & solutions with our campus and the greater community. In this role, while performing general systems administration duties (including distributing software, updating operating systems, and configuring changes to client systems), you will innovate and collaborate with other IT professionals and colleagues throughout the organization.

We seek qualified applicants who also bring perspectives and experiences that will enrich and strengthen our organization. We invite applications from candidates who may not have followed a traditional educational or professional path. All candidates should be prepared to discuss how they see themselves contributing to the University’s equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. The library serves an increasingly diverse constituency of patrons, and our employees, services, collections, and policies should honor and reflect this diversity. We are therefore interested in identifying and interviewing candidates who have experience with underserved or marginalized communities and communities of color and who are committed to advancing our mission to provide equitable access to information resources.

This position is considered Category IIA: Not required on campus and has the ability to telework remotely for the duration of the University of Utah’s response to COVID-19. An employee hired into this role will be responsible for providing space, telephone, printing, networking and/or internet capabilities at the telecommute location and agree to the terms of the University of Utah campus and Health Academics COVID-19 Telecommuting Agreement.

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Student Positions

Please note: For the Marriott Library to be able to appropriately monitor hours worked, part-time employees are generally asked to restrict their work with the University of Utah to Library employment only, unless an exception is granted. Please contact Jordan Waite for questions about this policy.

Digital Collections Pre-Processor

If you’re looking for a job that’s conveniently temporarily located in the comfort of your own home due to a worldwide pandemic, this may be a great fit for you! Our small team is responsible for the digital preservation of born-digital and digitized records from all over Utah. We preserve thousands of files per week. As Digital Collections Pre-Processor, you will be able to polish skills like paying attention to details, being an effective member of a team, and developing a self-directed work ethic. You will gain, or build on, experience with Excel spreadsheets as you prepare files and their metadata for ingest into the digital archive. As you work with large batches of files in various formats, you will prepare metadata on spreadsheets and have the chance to work with simple utilities such as bulk renaming tools and command line utilities as you help us create order out of digital chaos. If you are interested in joining our busy team, apply today!

This position is considered Category IIA: Not required on campus and has the ability to telework remotely for the duration of the University of Utah’s response to COVID-19. An employee hired into this role will be responsible for providing space, telephone, printing, networking and/or internet capabilities at the telecommute location and agree to the terms of the University of Utah campus and Health Academics COVID-19 Telecommuting Agreement.

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Facilities Assistant

Are you interested in helping us take care of one of the University’s largest and most visited buildings? We are looking for energetic individuals who enjoy a balance of working together on projects and individually on assigned tasks in the areas of facilities management and maintenance. Different projects provide opportunities to work with many different people and departments on diverse tasks.

This position is considered Category I: Mandatory and required on campus or health care facilities to support on-site operations. Employees hired into this category will be required to be physically located at Marriott Library if they are healthy and without COVID-19 symptoms.

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Book Arts Studio Assistant

The Book Arts Studio Assistant’s primary responsibilities will cover a broad range of tasks—some hands-on (materials preparation, studio monitoring, and/or exhibition installation) and some desk/computer-based (answering program-related email and phone calls, and data entry).

Additional duties include the use of specialized equipment for the preparation of materials for workshops and outreach programs; assisting with projects for the Library, Book Arts Program, and Red Butte Press; assisting visiting artists; helping with communications and publicity; and assisting with studio up-keep and general maintenance.

The ideal candidate enjoys letterpress printing and handiwork, is willing to take on repetitive and meticulous tasks, possesses strong communication skills, values working with a diverse group of people, and is interested in learning new skills. Job emphasis will vary based on the skills and interests of the person hired, special project timelines, and programmatic need.

This position is considered Category I: Mandatory and required on campus or health care facilities to support on-site operations. Employees hired into this category will be required to be physically located at Marriott Library if they are healthy and without COVID-19 symptoms.

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Student Programming Assistant

The Marriott Library is looking for a candidate to help create new web applications and bring information resources to the university community. If you enjoy programming, problem solving, and collaborating with others, we’d love for you to apply. By joining the Digital Infrastructure Development team you will work with developers in a supportive environment and have the opportunity to gain experience in information technology and software development while being mentored by professionals in the field..

As a Digital Infrastructure Development student programmer, you will create new applications and services and help enhance existing digital infrastructure.

This position is considered Category IIA: Not required on campus and has the ability to telework remotely for the duration of the University of Utah’s response to COVID-19. An employee hired into this role will be responsible for providing space, telephone, printing, networking and/or internet capabilities at the telecommute location and agree to the terms of the University of Utah campus and Health Academics COVID-19 Telecommuting Agreement.

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Marketing & Communication Aide (Work-Study)

Assists the Marketing & PR Assistant and Marketing & PR Director with tasks that relate to marketing library events, services, and promoting the library through communications.

This position is considered Category IIA: Not required on campus, and has the ability to telework remotely for the duration of the University of Utah’s response to COVID-19. An employee hired into this role will be responsible for providing space, telephone, printing, networking and/or internet capabilities at the telecommute location and agree to the terms of the University of Utah campus and Health Academics COVID-19 Telecommuting Agreement.

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Photograph Processor

Do you have a love of Utah history, Mormon history, and/or the history of the West? If so, this position is perfect for you. As a Photograph Processor in Multimedia Archives, you will assist in the arrangement, description, and digitization of photograph collections related to these histories. You be part of a team dedicated to preserving these important histories.

The successfully hired candidate will be expected to continue their employment for a minimum of two semesters.

This position is considered Category 1, mandatory and required to on campus or health care facilities to support on-site operations. Employees hired into this category will be required to be physically located at the Marriott Library if they are healthy and without COVID-19 symptoms.

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Internships and Other Opportunities

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