AUL User Experience and Services

Position Overview

Position title: AUL for User Experience and Services

Salary range: $117,000 - $200,000

Anticipated start: summer/fall 2026

Open date: March 2, 2026

Next review date: Monday, May 18, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Monday, May 18, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

The University of California, Riverside Library seeks a collaborative, innovative, and user-oriented administrator to fill the position of Assistant/Associate University Librarian (AUL) for User Experience and Services. This role provides strategic vision to optimize the library's physical and digital user experience, supporting the University's priorities in student success, research excellence, and community engagement.

Located an hour's drive to the east of Los Angeles, an hour west of Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, an hour east of ocean beaches, ninety minutes north of San Diego, and an hour south of mountain ski resorts, UCR is located in an area of dramatic landscapes and rich cultural traditions. The University is a dynamic, aggressively developing land grant research institution dedicated to preparing its diverse student body to be successful competitors in the world marketplace of ideas.

Over the past few years, UCR has accumulated numerous accolades for its achievements. In 2022, it received the following rankings:

• No. 1 public university in the U.S. for social mobility four years in a row - U.S. News & World Report
• No. 1 for Hispanic enrollment among selective universities - Urban Institute
• No. 2 in the country for financial aid - Business Insider
• No. 2 in Entomology research in the world - Center for World University Rankings
• No. 3 in Hispanic STEM graduates in the nation - National Science Foundation
• No. 4 for Pell Grant student performance - Washington Monthly
• No. 9 among public universities for sustainability - Princeton Review
• No. 11 most diverse medical school - U.S. News
• Top 12 public university - Forbes "America's Best Value Colleges"
• No. 14 public university - CNBC "Colleges That Pay Off the Most"
• No. 20 public university - Princeton Review Best Schools for Making a Public Impact
• No. 31 in the world in plant and animal sciences - U.S. News & World Report

In addition, it has attracted faculty with some of the highest academic honors, including:

• 2 Nobel Prize Winners
• 3 Guggenheim Awards
• 4 UC University Professorships
• 11 Fulbright Scholars
• 28 National Academies Members

The UCR Library is a critical partner in preparing UCR's students to be globally competitive while simultaneously preparing them to be transformative leaders in the Inland Empire and beyond. The mission of the UCR Library is no less than to bring the world's information resources to the UCR community and to ensure that UCR students, faculty, and staff have the skills to fully exploit those resources to change the world for the better.

The UCR Library is a team of intensely collaborative, forward-thinking colleagues dedicated to providing exemplary services to our students, faculty, and community members in a rapidly evolving information environment. The successful candidate will be technologically-sophisticated; committed to problem-solving in local, regional, national, and international arenas; able to develop innovative solutions to complex problems; and a dynamic and effective leader.

The UCR Library is comprised of two facilities housing more than 4,900,000 volumes, 1,740,000 electronic books, 120,000 print and electronic journals, and 2,300,000 microforms. The Library provides services to more than 27,000 students and nearly 2,000 faculty and other academics in an institutional environment planning for and experiencing extensive growth. The successful candidate will join an enthusiastic staff of 100, including 36 FTE librarians and 65 FTE staff personnel as well as students, in building a research library of excellence within a dynamic and diverse university ranked among the top 50 in the nation.

The UCR Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Among the unique collections of the UCR Library is the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Water Resources Collections & Archives, the Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian, the Paul Chou Collection of Chinese history and culture, the George Brown Papers, the Tomas Rivera Papers, and the Inland Empire Memories Initiative.

The UCR Library is an integral part of the University of California library system. With collections totaling 40.8 million volumes, including 4.3 million digitized contents contributed to Hathi Trust, UC's more than 100 libraries are surpassed in size on the American continent only by the Library of Congress collection. In addition, UC's California Digital Library (CDL) provides additional support in licensing and discovery, and in applying technology to the development of library…