Indiana University Bloomington Libraries

The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries offer a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries. The Fellow will be an active member of the Libraries’ Area Studies Department, providing reference, outreach and collection management for India Studies and Foreign/International Documents while also helping to develop a new model for an area studies position that will serve India and the larger South Asian world. The Area Studies Department of the Wells Library includes six librarians and four 0.5 FTE support staff positions who are responsible for all aspects of collection development/management, reference, and outreach to students and faculty in African, Latin American, Spanish & Portuguese, Latino, Slavic and East European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, Islamic and Central Eurasian, Jewish, India, and Tibetan Studies. The department’s mission is to support and strengthen teaching, learning, and research by providing the collections, services, and environments that lead to intellectual discovery. For more information, see http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8518

Like all Area Studies librarians, the Fellow will collaborate closely with colleagues throughout the libraries, including Teaching and Learning, Government Information, Social Sciences and Humanities Departments, and Digital Library Program.

This will be an opportunity for a recent Ph.D. in India Studies or a related area studies discipline to join an energetic and service-oriented department that strives to provide individualized and in-depth services to its constituents. Members of the department have recently collaborated on an ARL survey on Collecting Global Resources (1) and will continue to explore issues of service models in area studies librarianship in an upcoming conference in 2012. Together with members of the Area Studies Department, the Fellow will help develop pilot projects to provide services to faculty and students in area and International Studies; for example, a pilot project for an Area and International Studies Center in the library. The Fellow will also play an active role in organizing a conference on area studies librarianship to be jointly hosted by Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Fellow will have the opportunity to pursue his/her own research relating to the future of area studies service models and positions and will attend appropriate conferences and meetings, such as the Annual Conference on South Asia, the Association of Asian Studies and American Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable.

Desired qualifications:

- Ph.D. in an area studies discipline. Preference will be given to candidates with a demonstrated interest in India Studies and/or foreign and International Documents.

- Interest in working in an research library

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

Environment:

As the 2010 recipient of the ACRL Research Library of the Year award, the IU Bloomington Libraries (http://www.libraries.iub.edu) rank among the leading academic library systems in North America. The IUB Library staff takes pride in the strong collections, quality services and instruction programs, and the leadership of the library in the application of information technologies. The various IUB Libraries are active members of regional, national and international associations and consortia including the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and are a founding member of HathiTrust. In addition, Indiana University is the principle investigator for Kuali Open Library Environment (Kuali OLE) which is working with academic partners to develop a next generation open source library management system.

Collecting global resources / Wookjin Cheun, Marion Frank-Wilson (project leader), Luis A. González, Akram Khabibullaev, Wen-Ling Liu, Andrea Singer, Noa Wahrman. Washington, DC : Association of Research Libraries, 2011. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-324-web.pdf