submitted by Caroline Mann

ANNOUNCEMENT Portland Campus Librarian Linfield College Portland, Oregon 97210.

POSITION: Visiting full-time faculty position; one-year appointment, 1998/99 Search for a tenure-track incumbent will occur during 1998/99. Screening begins April 27.

STARTING DATE: July 1, 1998 RANK AND COMPENSATION: Assistant Professor; salary commensurate with qualifications, experience, and salary scale. POSITION SUMMARY: Provides services to Linfield students and faculty who study at the Portland Campus. Oversees the branch library that is housed within and operated in conjunction with the Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital Library. Duties include bibliographic instruction, reference, collection development, acquisitions, and cataloging. Schedule includes some weekend and evening work. Reports to the College Librarian and maintains liaison with the Director of the Portland Campus. RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Assists and counsels library users at the Portland Campus with reference or research questions. Performs database searches and teaches users to search using a variety of electronic and print resources including Medline, CINAHL, and other databases. 2. Teaches research strategy and the effective use of library resources in an active, course-related instruction program. Collaborates with other Portland Campus faculty to integrate library use into the curriculum and achieve instructional goals. Prepares instructional materials. 3. Provides interlibrary loan services for students and faculty using OCLC and Docline; maintains liaison to libraries with reciprocal loan agreements and works to utilize available resources at those libraries and Northup Library at Linfield's McMinnville campus. 4. Collaborates with faculty creatively to develop small, focused collections that support specific course offerings. 5. Acquires library materials from a variety of vendors; catalogs library materials for the local Innovative Interfaces system and Orbis union catalog using OCLC and national standards including AACR2, LCSH, and NLM. Works in cooperation with the Technical Services Librarian and staff in McMinnville. 6. Develops and oversees the Portland Campus Library budget and maintains liaison with Linfield administrators. 7. Plans and oversees systems needs for the library including all aspects of Portland Campus online catalog and public CD-ROM workstations. Works in cooperation with the Systems Librarian and staff in McMinnville. 8. Works in cooperation with Legacy Libraries Coordinator and staff to assure even coverage of library service points. Provides back-up reference assistance for users from the hospital community in the absence of the Legacy reference librarian. 9. Hires, trains, schedules, supervises, and evaluates 1 FTE library technical assistant and approximately 15 student library workers. 10. Develops as a professional through appropriate reading, writing, public presentations, continuing education, and participation in professional library organizations; participates in faculty governance.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. MLS from an ALA-accredited library school required. Broad liberal arts education preferred. 2. Experience in an academic library and/or health sciences library preferred. 3. Requires ability to use reference sources, online catalogs, online databases, including Medline and CINAHL, and current emerging technologies, including the World Wide Web. 4. Experience in bibliographic instruction, reference, collection development, acquisitions, cataloging, and PC troubleshooting preferred. 5. Requires excellent organizational, interpersonal, planning, and analytical skills. 6. Requires excellent oral and written communication skills. 7. Requires an active service orientation with an ability to work with physicians and staff in a hospital library setting and faculty, students, and colleagues in a private, liberal arts college setting.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES: Nominations are welcome. Send letter of application; resume; names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references; and transcripts of all college and university work (unofficial transcripts acceptable for initial screening). Official correspondence should be directed to Lynn Chmelir, College Librarian, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR 97128. Telephone 503/434-2262 and FAX 503-434-2566. Screening begins April 27, 1998.