In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $80,000 - $100,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. 

Librarian for Music

Description

The New York University (NYU) Division of Libraries is seeking a tenure-track faculty Librarian for Music to liaise with the world-class music focused programs and departments within NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; the College of Arts and Science; and other programs throughout the University.

The Librarian for Music will lead relationships with our faculty and students engaged in music-related work across a spectrum of areas that includes music composition and theory, music education and therapy, music technology and business, music history and ethnography, and more. This Librarian will work collaboratively with colleagues in our Arts, Performance, and Humanistic Inquiry team to develop and sustain our liaison services in these areas. They will also work in close collaboration with our Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media, the collection and service location for our audiovisual materials, and with colleagues in our Collections and Content Strategy group to develop music collections in physical and electronic formats that are distinctive, interdisciplinary, and intersectional in order to serve the wide-ranging needs of our communities. 

The Librarian for Music will work with colleagues within the Division of Libraries to support and facilitate modes of scholarly inquiry in Music and the Humanities and work with NYU researchers who are at the cutting edge of scholarship and technology related to music and sound. The Librarian will work closely with colleagues on challenging questions related to copyright, scholarly communication, and licensing of streaming media. This librarian will also represent NYU in professional consortia and associations locally and nationally. 

Research

Faculty librarians pursue their own research, contributing their expertise, experiences, creative or artistic outputs, and investigations to build new knowledge and make cultural contributions. The person in this position has wide latitude in determining their own research agenda in their chosen areas. The Librarian for Music would find themselves well positioned to make substantive contributions to research in a number of areas, including, but not limited to: the underrepresentation of historically marginalized voices in publishers’ and libraries’ music and performing arts collections; the challenges of collecting and preserving born-digital and informally published content produced by underrepresented content creators and performers; the provision of sustainable and equitable services to music-focused communities; and much more.

NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative

NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to build a more diverse faculty community that seeks to recruit, welcome, and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism, Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good, and Urban Environments and Politics. This particular position is part of our Transformative Humanities for All: Building and Sharing the Cultural Record cluster. This cluster will enhance NYU Libraries’ capabilities to support academic and non-academic knowledge production in the humanities and related disciplines at NYU and beyond. The positions in this cluster build upon the advancement of the humanities. 

The scholarship conducted by the faculty in these cluster positions will center a transformative approach to building and sharing knowledge through critical, ethical inquiries that focus on the (in)visibility of epistemologies from historically and continuously underrepresented communities. The practicality of this cluster’s work will reside in fostering knowledge creation, identifying and acknowledging current and pre-existing knowledge, and focusing on the relationships between the academy and those communities most implicated by any particular area or approach to knowledge creation. The goal of this cluster is to build a transformative humanities that exists beyond the bounds of what has been known as traditional epistemological processes in the interest of more equitable shared knowledge. For full details about the Libraries cluster hiring initiative, see this link.

About New York University Libraries 

Libraries at New York University serve the school’s 40,000 students and faculty and contain more than 5 million volumes. The Libraries supports NYU’s vision to become the first true Global Network University by collaborating with and providing services to our 11 global academic centers and our “portal campuses” in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. New York University Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and the HathiTrust. The Libraries participate in a variety of consortia and collaborate closely with Columbia University Libraries and the New York Public Library through the Manhattan Research Library Consortium. View NYU Libraries Mission and Strategic Plan.

The Division of Libraries values diversity among its faculty, is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented communities. We are proud of our organizational culture and are committed​ ​to​ ​building​ ​and sustaining​​ a ​diverse,​ ​inclusive,​ ​and equitable​ ​organization​ that supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve. For more information regarding the Libraries’ commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Accessibility (IDBEA), see the Libraries’ Mission & Values Statement, our Diversity and Inclusion Values Statement, and our Commitment to Anti-Racism.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum one graduate degree (Master’s level or higher), conferred by start date, for consideration. A second graduate degree will be required to be eligible for tenure. One of the two eventual graduate degrees must be an ALA-accredited MLS/MLIS or equivalent.
• Study of and/or practice in one or more fields related to Music.
• Strong knowledge of Music reference, consultation, instruction, and/or collections work.
• Experience providing public service and research support.
• Experience delivering instruction, such as workshops, webinars, and/or classroom teaching.
• Demonstrated commitment to inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility (IDBEA). 
• Comfort operating in a virtual environment with standard tools (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams).

Preferred: 

• Graduate degree in a field related to Music.
• Knowledge of current and emerging pedagogical issues, practices, and trends, including online modalities.
• Facility with more than one language. 
• Experience working across organizational boundaries in a dynamic and highly collaborative working environment.
• Experience supporting critical and/or antiracist approaches to inclusive teaching, learning, and research in academic libraries and/or university environments.

 

Salary/Benefits:

This position is open rank with faculty status, and includes an attractive benefits package, including five weeks of annual vacation. 

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as a Full Curator in the academic year 2022-2023 is $100,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as an Associate Curator in the academic year 2022-2023 is $90,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as an Assistant Curator in the academic year 2022-2023 is $84,000.

The typical beginning annual base salary for a faculty member joining the Division of Libraries as a Library Associate in the academic year 2022-2023 is $80,000.

To Apply:

To ensure consideration, submit your CV and letter of application, including the name, address, and telephone number of three references. NYU Division of Libraries requires all candidates for this position to supply a statement demonstrating their commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, belonging, and accessibility as part of their application. Access the Diversity Statement prompt here: https://nyu.app.box.com/v/diversity-statement.

All applications for consideration must be submitted to http://apply.interfolio.com/126797

Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Preference will be given to applications received by July 31, 2023.

EOE/AA/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

 

Apply online here

Submit specified application materials to libraries.careers@nyu.edu.