OU Libraries Jobs
The University of Oklahoma Libraries is transforming the way our community thinks about and interacts with research libraries. The OU Libraries’ award-winning facilities and resources create opportunities for faculty and students to excel in any field. We seek to create excellence in the library experience, to support campus research and data stewardship, to build on the excellence of our special collections, and to promote scholarly communication. We invest in our organization by recruiting individuals committed to superior user experience and by actively strengthening and expanding our skills and capabilities. We invite you to join the OU Libraries in serving as the intellectual crossroads of the University and providing access to informational resources that fulfill the academic, research, artistic, scholarly and community leadership objectives of the university and lead to lifelong knowledge creation.
If you would like to be a part of a team of highly skilled professional and academic librarians who are reshaping what a top-tier academic research library can be, we invite you to apply for any of our open positions at jobs.ou.edu.
Faculty Positions
No Faculty positions are available at this time.
Professional Positions
Associate Director, Schusterman Library (Assistant Professor)
The Associate Director will provide leadership and support for all areas of public service; lead the development of policies and procedures in response to the needs of the students, staff, and faculty of OU-Tulsa; monitor library assessment data and collaborate with the librarians and staff to develop appropriate action plans based on findings; and develop training programs for the OU-Tulsa librarians and staff to foster their continuing professional development and growth. The Associate Director will be a part of a dynamic team of librarians, library staff, and graduate research assistants, and will play a significant role in human resources management for the library, including recruiting and mentoring of new staff, attending to matters of personnel management and training, and providing leadership when the Director is unavailable. As the leader of the public services team, the Associate Director will model and provide support for excellence in reference and research services, information literacy instruction, scholarly communications, and collaboration with campus leadership and faculty. They will also engage with student associations and faculty groups on campus to better understand the needs of our primary users and discover innovative ways to connect with them. The librarian will have non-tenure-track, renewable faculty status and will be active in campus and university governance. Participation in professional organizations and scholarly research and service to enhance library services is required and will be necessary for promotion in rank. Read the OU Libraries Associate Director, Schusterman Library job description.
Assistant Dean, Strategic and Research Initiatives
This leadership position reports to the Dean of University Libraries (UL) and participates in the Senior Management Team, a body working with the Dean to provide overall UL leadership, direction, and the promotion of organizational impact on OU’s research and academic mission. The Assistant Dean will serve as lead designer, facilitator, and manager of UL strategy-setting, as well as organizational liaison for institutional research initiatives supporting UL contributions to institutional success. As assigned, the Assistant Dean will help define and manage Dean-sponsored initiatives and projects affecting UL-wide programs and impacts. This position facilitates the library’s strategic planning process, data-gathering and analysis, and the implementation of strategic priorities. As required, the Assistant Dean will coordinate and lead designated teams and task forces supporting strategic initiatives. Read the OU Libraries Assistant Dean, Strategic and Research Initiatives job description.
Director of Digital Collaborations and Partnerships
The University of Oklahoma Libraries seeks a creative, collaborative, and highly strategic leader to serve as the inaugural Director of Digital Collaborations and Partnerships. This Director will lead the launch of and oversee a unified digital research hub and studios initiative supporting computational research, digital scholarship, multimodal and media-rich creative work across disciplines.
Building on more than a decade of digital scholarship and research support at OU, the Director will lead the administrative, outreach, and project management team responsible for the hub’s centralized services, coordinating user intake, project lifecycle support, programming and community-building activities, creating consultation and expert referral pathways to the studios and campus partners. The Director plays a critical strategic role in advancing OU’s Lead On Strategic Plan goals, including elevating research excellence, fostering interdisciplinary innovation, and providing world-class academic resources. Read the Director of Digital Collaborations and Partnerships job description.
Research Data and AI Specialist
The University of Oklahoma Libraries seeks to recruit a Research Data and AI Specialist to advance research data services that support computational, reproducible, and AI-enabled research across the University Libraries system. As research increasingly relies on large, complex datasets and emerging computational methods, this position helps researchers manage, analyze, preserve, and responsibly use research data within computational and reproducible workflows. The Research Data and AI Specialist provides consultations, instruction, and embedded research support on research data management, computational and reproducible workflows, and the ethical application of artificial intelligence to research processes. Working collaboratively with Libraries and campus partners, the position scales services, cultivates data and AI literacy, and expands institutional capacity for responsible, transparent, reproducible, and sustainable research. Responsibilities include providing consultations and instruction; advising on data management plans, metadata standards, computational and reproducible research practices, and research data sharing; developing services that enable long-term stewardship and access to research outputs; supporting responsible AI-enabled research workflows; collaborating with campus partners to advance open science initiatives; and evaluating emerging technologies that strengthen research support across the university. Read the OU Libraries Research Data and AI Specialist job description.
Staff Positions
No Staff positions are available at this time.
Student Positions
OU Libraries student employee positions are listed on the OU Jobs website.