Senior Assistant Librarian
Full-time (12 month), tenure track
Starting salary: $60,000, plus excellent benefits
To learn more about this position and to apply, please visit https://jobs.plattsburgh.edu/
About The Position:
We are seeking a versatile and service-oriented Technical Services Librarian to join our collaborative library team in July of 2026. This position is a technical services generalist role, with responsibilities spanning metadata creation and management, cataloging, digital repositories, other library systems, and project coordination. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic problem solver with a strong foundation in metadata and cataloging who enjoys working both independently and collaboratively to support access to a wide range of library resources. In addition to technical services responsibilities, this position contributes to liaison activities with an assigned academic school (Arts and Sciences; Business and Economics; Education, Health and Human Services), including course-integrated instruction, collection development, and research support.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Proxy server management and maintenance; activation and troubleshooting of new databases and electronic resources; performing copy and original cataloging for a variety of materials using established standards (MARC, RDA, AACR2); collaborating with colleagues to improve the organization, discoverability, and quality of metadata in digital and physical collections; managing the library’s institutional repository (SUNY SOAR) and developing and improving repository workflows and metadata; participating in cross-departmental technical services projects, including metadata audits; cataloging migration, or system upgrades; working as part of the
technical services team alongside the Systems and Acquisitions Librarian and Web and Discovery Librarian; and coordinating and managing technical services projects, ensuring timely and effective outcomes.
This is a tenure-track position, and as such does require scholarship and service. At SUNY Plattsburgh librarians are academic faculty who participate in shared governance through the Faculty Senate. Feinberg Library assists students, faculty, staff, and the community in their intellectual activities by providing resources and services in support of research, teaching, and learning. We strive to help our users develop information literacy essential for life-long learning and becoming well-informed, reflective global citizens. We are part of the Academic Affairs division that administratively builds our college commitment to student success through a strong curriculum, excellent teaching, and scholarly research.
Our commitment includes fostering student preparation for the workplace or graduate school and for life-long learning. As SUNY Plattsburgh is an institution that delivers challenging and high-quality educational experiences to a diverse group of learners, the successful candidate must demonstrate an understanding of and sensitivity to diversity, inclusion, and equity-minded policies, programs, and practices.
About Our University:
SUNY Plattsburgh, home of the Cardinals, is part of the largest comprehensive university system in the United States. The university offers a diverse selection of more than 60 academic programs across three schools – Arts & Sciences, Business & Economics, and Education, Health & Human Services. Many of these programs are highly ranked and carry strong national and regional reputations that allow students to work with highly skilled faculty who prepare them to excel in their chosen fields and industries upon graduation. Our campus prioritizes enrollment growth and stabilization, student success, equity and inclusion, and engagement with our North Country region as our four pillars of success. And we are committed to providing each and every Cardinal student a high quality liberal arts education grounded in academic excellence and a well-rounded college experience.
SUNY Plattsburgh is a destination campus located in northern New York between the iconic Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain. The campus is a short walk from historic downtown Plattsburgh, New York, where area residents have access to a wide array of arts, food, and events throughout the year, and just over a 1 hour car ride from the cities of Burlington, Vermont, Montreal, Quebec, and Lake Placid, New York, which is best known by locals as a former site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
– Posted 2/6/26