Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitleLibrarian I - Research, Learning and User Support
Job CodeLM001
Scaled JobNo
Salary Grade21
Family NameLibraries, Archives, and Museums
Sub Family NameLibraries and Archives: Research, Learning, and User Support
Job Overview
Job SummaryProvides a wide variety of professional library services which may include the areas of teaching, learning, public services, circulation, reference, selection, and outreach to support creative exploration, intellectual growth and, scholarly pursuits. Provides input on policies and procedures to contribute to services and operations and assist in continual service improvement and innovation.
Job Responsibilities
  • Serves as a liaison to academic disciplines and/or other campus units providing information on collections, instructional and research support, and library services
  • Cultivates and maintains productive relationships with vendors and professional colleagues
  • Obtains materials, resolves issues, and answers questions particularly related to situations that are complex in nature
  • Designs, develops, and delivers instruction in a variety of formats to faculty, staff, students, and other patrons
  • Assists with the coordination of day-to-day functions of one or more library operations or services
  • Provides specialized services utilizing a high level of expertise on a broad range of disciplines or in a designated discipline area
  • Contributes to the development of policies and procedures
  • Serves on committees to advance librarianship at the campus, local, and/or state levels
  • May direct the day-to-day activities of student workers
  • Develops and curates collections
Additional Information
Employee CategoryAcademic Staff (AS)
Supervision RequiredNo
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Master's Degree - Preferred Minimum

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.

[updateD September 12, 2022]