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

No Faculty positions are available at this time.

Project Archivist for Architectural Records Digitization

The Project Archivist for Architectural Records Digitization is a term-appointed, 1-year project position at the University of Oklahoma Libraries that will focus on preparing architectural records of significant cultural, historical, and research value to be digitized and made openly accessible online via OU Libraries’ digital collections repository. The Project Archivist’s work will focus specifically on archival collections in the American School Archive at OU Libraries, an archival collecting area that documents the imaginative school of architectural design and practice that developed under the guidance of pioneering architects Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, and others at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on established criteria and priorities, this position will make informed selections of archival collection items from fully processed collections to be digitized and published online, documenting these decisions in project spreadsheets. The Project Archivist will work with archival materials including physical architectural drawings, print publications, paper records, and photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Requisition #251833

Institutional Repository Librarian

The University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries seeks an innovative, collaborative, and highly motivated individual to serve as OU’s Institutional Repository Librarian of SHAREOK™, the joint institutional repository for OU and the University of Central Oklahoma. SHAREOK™ is hosted on DSpace, a free, open-source software system by OU Libraries, and it currently contains more than 40,000 items, encompassing faculty and staff publications, student works, and open educational resources. This position develops, implements, and assesses policies, workflows, and documentation to streamline the mediated deposit of faculty, staff, and student scholarship in SHAREOK™ and improve the user experience, in collaboration with colleagues. Reporting to the Director of Open Initiatives and Scholarly Communication within OU Libraries, the Institutional Repository Librarian will be integral to increasing awareness and uptake of SHAREOK™ in support of the OU-Norman Open Access policy, thereby broadening access to the research output of OU. Requisition #251897

Billing, Media, and Reserves Specialist (Senior Admin Support Specialist)

Reporting to the Head of Storage & Delivery, the Billing, Media, and Reserves Specialist is a classified staff position within Access Services. This unit-level position is responsible for the supervision and day-to-day operations of billing, media, and reserves services. Working as a key member of Bizzell Access Services, this supervisor position serves as a liaison with the Office of the Bursar and works closely with faculty members across campus. This position provides customer support at a primary service point in the main library and is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of all media and materials on reserves. The position works with library administration and staff throughout the University Libraries system to assist in the development and implementation of billing and reserve services, policies, and procedures in a manner that ensures customer service excellence. Performance of the job duties requires the use of considerable independence, initiative, and discretion within established guidelines. Requisition #251610

University Libraries student employee positions may be found at OU Jobs.