Marriott Library Jobs

Academic Librarian

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not have followed a traditional educational or professional path. We are interested in identifying and interviewing candidates with experience and expertise that will contribute to advancing our mission to provide everyone with access to information resources and educational opportunities.

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Head of Teaching, Research, and Outreach

Are you interested in a leadership role that offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of teaching, research, and outreach? The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah seeks a Head of Teaching, Research, & Outreach to lead engagement with the academic programs serving 12 colleges and schools and related disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs across the University of Utah. The ideal candidate will be a pragmatic leader committed to building partnerships, enhancing academic and community engagement, and conducting needs assessments to understand the research, teaching, and learning needs to support the research enterprise and student success initiatives. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication, the position provides leadership for teaching, academic and community engagement, collection building, research support, and student success. As a member of the Dean’s Cabinet, the position contributes to divisional and library-wide planning and assessment, and collaborates with peers internally and externally.

Relocation to the Salt Lake City, Utah area is required and will be financially supported by house hunting and moving allowances. This position is currently designed as a hybrid of on-campus and local remote work. The telecommuting arrangement will be based on the position’s needs and authorized at the discretion of the Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication.

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Benefited Staff Positions

Borrowing & Course Materials Coordinator

The Borrowing & Course Materials Coordinator makes library resources available to the students, staff, and faculty of University of Utah’s main campus to support their learning and research activities.

This position assists in the management of Course Materials and processes course-assigned resource requests, purchases materials for the library collection, markets Library and Campus Course Materials services, and troubleshoots high-level questions. Acts as the department liaison to the Open Reserve collection. Assists the department manager with various special projects and provides high-quality customer service and support.

Assists the Borrowing Supervisor in borrowing, receiving, and returning materials owned by other libraries (Borrowing requests), as well as providing electronic access to journal articles and book chapters from the Marriott Library’s print collection and electronic resources (Document Delivery requests).

Work time for this position is split equally between Borrowing and Course Materials, though fluctuation is expected throughout the academic year.

This position is required to work on campus full-time. Telecommuting will only be authorized for occasional/exceptional circumstances.

We seek qualified applicants who bring perspectives and experiences that will enrich and strengthen our organization and enhance our commitment to access and belonging. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not have followed a traditional educational or professional path.

The University will not sponsor a work visa for this position.

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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 Carson McCall for questions about this policy.

Interlibrary Loan/ Document Delivery Assistant 

Interlibrary Loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive articles from materials that are owned by another library. Document Delivery is a service that provides Marriott Library patrons PDF files of articles owned by our library. The employee in this position will process incoming Interlibrary Loan article requests from other libraries. After ownership of the articles is verified and retrieved from the library stacks or subscribed electronic resources, the employee will scan/download and deliver the requested materials electronically to the requesting libraries.

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Rare Book Assistant 

The Rare Books Department at the J. Willard Marriott Library is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic student to join our team as a Part-Time Rare Books Assistant. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with rare and valuable books, manuscripts, and archival materials, contributing to their preservation and accessibility for future generations — from four-thousand-year-old clay tablets to twenty-first century artists’ books.

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Digital Preservation Assistant

Our small team is responsible for the digital preservation of born-digital and digitized records from across Utah. As Digital Preservation Assistant, you will gain, or build on, experience with Excel spreadsheets as you prepare files and their metadata for ingest into the Digital Preservation System (DPS). 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.

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Information & Operations Assistant 

This is a customer service position that connects patrons to our services and collections, while striving to maintain a welcoming environment in the library. Primarily working at the information desks at the entrances, library assistants provide effective access to resources and collections. They provide exceptional patron service in-person, over the phone, and online, as well as facilitate the fulfillment of electronic and physical library resources. The position also plays a vital role in promoting responsible use of the library.

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Library Projects & Research Assistant

Are you passionate about libraries and library research methods and want to learn more? Come work in an awe-inspiring library with a team that excels in supporting the teaching and research mission of the University of Utah. The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks to recruit a student with advanced library and research skills that will enrich and strengthen our organization.

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Knowledge Commons Desk Staff 

Serve students, staff, and faculty in the Knowledge Commons, the Marriott Library’s central service point for technology and reference assistance. Work with a team of students and library staff to answer questions in a variety of areas including campus and library services, research, computer software, printing, mobile device configuration, classroom support, and equipment checkout.

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Photograph Processor 

Do you have a love of history? If so, this position is perfect for you! As a Photograph Processor in Multimedia Archives, you would be part of a team and would assist in the arrangement, description, and digitization of photograph collections related to these histories.

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Internships and Other Opportunities