JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)

August 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020

Princeton University Library

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Scholarly Collections & Research Services
Research Services
Labor Economics Librarian

JOE ID Number: 2019-02_111464592
Date Posted: 01/04/2020
Date Inactive: 01/31/2020
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Labor Economics Librarian
Section: US: Full-Time Academic (Permanent, Tenure Track or Tenured)
Location: Princeton, New Jersey, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
J0 -- General
J2 -- Demand and Supply of Labor
J3 -- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
J5 -- Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
N3 -- Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
L0 -- General
Keywords:
Labor Economics
Industrial Relations
Librarian
History of Labor Economics & Industrial Relations
Library Instruction
Collection Development
Salary Range: The successful candidate will be appointed to an appropriate Librarian rank depending upon qualifications and experience.
Full Text of JOE Listing:

Princeton University Library seeks an energetic, creative librarian to provide outstanding research assistance and collection development for faculty, students and researchers in labor economics and industrial relations, and to act as liaison to the Industrial Relations Section of the Economics Department.

Qualifications
Required:
•ALA-accredited MLS degree; work experience related to economics, economic history, labor history, industrial relations, human resource management, politics, business, public policy, sociology OR advanced degree in any of the above fields.
•2+ years work experience in research library or comparable experience in academic setting conducting instruction, research consultations, outreach.
•Broad knowledge of labor economics: scholarly resources, bibliographic tools, current trends in digital scholarship, print and digital publishing.
•Excellent interpersonal and project management skills; ability to work collegially with diverse groups of scholars and colleagues.

Preferred:
•Work experience related to labor economics, industrial relations, human resource management, labor history.
•Advanced degree in field related to labor economics, industrial relations, human resources management or labor history.
•2+ years work experience in academic setting conducting instruction, research consultations, outreach.
•2+ years work experience with labor economics datasets or micro-data.
•Work experience in academic research library, especially historical archives.
•Experience with new technologies for discovery and learning in rapidly changing environment.



Application Requirements:
  • External Application URL and Instructions Below
Application deadline: 02/28/2020
Application Instructions:
The successful candidate will be appointed to an appropriate Librarian rank depending upon qualifications and experience. Applications will be accepted only from the AHIRE system through the office of the Dean of the Faculty website: https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/14581 and must include a resume, cover letter, and a list of three references with full contact information. This position is subject to the University's background check policy.