Librarian (Outreach and Student Engagement)

Full-time, tenure-track faculty position (10-month) at Diablo Valley College Library, Pleasant Hill campus. Start date: Fall 2027. Some evening and/or online assignments may be required.

About the role

Diablo Valley College inspires, educates, and empowers a diverse community of students to transform their lives and their communities. To help further this work, The Diablo Valley College (DVC) Library is seeking a visionary, equity-minded, and collaborative Outreach and Student Engagement Librarian to join our dynamic library team. This full-time faculty position, based out of the Pleasant Hill campus, will play a critical role in expanding the library's presence across the college and strengthening its connections with DVC's diverse student community. The Outreach and Student Engagement Librarian will coordinate outreach efforts that increase awareness of and participation in library resources, services, and programs, while positioning the library as a welcoming educational, cultural, and community space, both on campus and online. The ideal candidate will help advance the college's commitment to equity, belonging, and student success by fostering meaningful connections between the library, the two campuses (Pleasant Hill and San Ramon), and the broader college community. In addition, the Outreach and Student Engagement Librarian will engage in all the core responsibilities of faculty librarians, including information literacy instruction, reference, departmental liaison work, collections, and college governance.

Key responsibilities

• Build a vision of outreach and student engagement for the DVC Library which includes two campuses.
• Lead the planning, coordination, delivery, and evaluation of library outreach initiatives, programming, events, and engagement activities for students, faculty, and the broader college community, both on campus and online.
• Establish and sustain partnerships with instructional departments, student services, learning communities, student organizations, and other campus and community groups to integrate the library into college-wide activities and student success initiatives.
• Coordinate the library's outreach communications and promotional efforts across appropriate channels and gather student and community feedback to inform programming priorities, expand participation, and address barriers to library engagement, particularly for disproportionately impacted students.

Duties and responsibilities

• Providing reference service and instruction on the use of print and electronic information resources to students, faculty, staff and the community.
• Participating in the library's critical information literacy instruction program, which includes collaborating with faculty to provide course-integrated information literacy and research instruction.
• Participating in the collection, development, and implementation of print, electronic, and learning resources and services for the library, including developing library collections for assigned subject areas.
• Serving as a liaison to connect departments, areas, or programs within the college to the library and its services.
• Collaborating in curriculum development, revision, and student learning outcomes assessment for the Library Technology program.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the DVC Library's website.
• Maintaining current knowledge in the field of Library and Information Science including critical information and digital literacies and effective teaching/learning strategies.
• Participating in department planning, scheduling, assessment, and continuous improvement.
• Participating in college governance and committees.
• Participating in professional development activities, both departmental and college-wide.
• Maintaining appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics.
• Performing