Library Human Resources

Faculty and Academic Professional Positions

University Library is the third largest academic library in the United States. It houses more than 21 million items, which includes nearly 9.5 million volumes, over 12 million non-print items and over 90,000 periodicals and journals. The Library receives over one million visitors to the online catalog each week, contains 47 individual libraries and currently employs 100 faculty and 300 staff members.  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a public, land-grant university that was chartered in 1867, under the name of the Illinois Industrial University. There are over 150 programs of study at UIUC, with more than 80 research centers, laboratories and institutes.  The University employs 2,000 faculty members and serves over 37,000 students; undergraduate, graduate and professional.

Urbana-Champaign is located about 135 miles south of Chicago and is a diverse community of over 100,000. Champaign County is home to more than 175,000 people, and provides a peaceful, rural environment to complement the cultural and recreational benefits of a major university.  For more information on the area, check out Champaign County Illinois Chamber of Commerce.


Library positions and their status will be updated weekly.
Please click the job title to view the position announcement.

POSITION TITLE Search Committee STATUS
Archival Operations and Reference Specialist (Visiting) Adriana Cuervo, Chair
Chris Prom
Geoff Ross
Caroline Szylowicz
OPEN
Biomedical Sciences Librarian Lynne Rudasill, Chair
Atoma Batoma
Suan Braxton
Diane Schmidt
Mary Shultz
CLOSED
 Coordinator of Library Assessment Carissa Phillips, Chair
Kathleen Kern
Jim Hahn
Kirstin Dougan
CLOSED
Director, Information Technology Production Services Mary Schlembach, Chair
Lisa Romero
Tom Habing
Mary Laskowski
CLOSED
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian and Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Library Administration Lisa Romero, Chair
Jane Block
Paula Carns
Jenny Johnson
Larry Miller
Nils Jacobsen
CLOSED
Media Commons Coordinator

Beth Sandore, Chair
John Wagstaff
Joyce Wright
Susan Avery
Glenda Morgan
Lori Mestre

OPEN
Metadata Librarian for Web-Scale Discovery - Visiting Jenny Emanuel, Chair
Tim Cole
MJ Han
Lisa Hinchliffe
OPEN
Middle East and North African Studies Librarian Tom Teper, Chair
Atoma Batoma
Abbas Benmamoun
Mara Thacker
Steve Witt
OPEN
Patron Services Manger for Central Circulation Joann Jacoby, Chair
Mary Laskowski
Cherie' Weible
Harriett Green
Mark Wardecker
CLOSED