Lecturer in the iSchool

Salary:

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Job Category:Academic Staff

Employment Type:Terminal (Fixed Term)

Job Profile:Lecturer

Job Summary:

Teach one or more of the following courses in an online environment
in the 2026-27 spring semester.

• LIS 517 Digital Health: Information and Technologies Supporting

Consumers and Patients

• LIS 602 Information: Organization and Search
• LIS 655 Collection Management
• LIS 705 Introductory Analytics for Decision Making

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Serves as an initial point of contact for students as it

relates to specific course or series content and expectations

• Develops instructional design and curriculum relevant to a

course of instruction

• Facilitates classroom, online and/or laboratory instruction for

one or more courses, including assessment of student
performance

Department:

• College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence

(iSchool)

Compensation:

• The minimum full-time equivalent (FTE) salary is $50,115. This

is a part-time position at a 33.4% appointment, resulting in a base
total of $8,411.79. Actual pay will be determined by your
qualifications, appointment percentage, and prior higher education
teaching experience.

Required Qualifications:

• LIS 517 Digital Health: Information and Technologies Supporting

Consumers and Patients

• Experience with selecting and training on appropriate and

accurate materials for consumer health and family education; the
ethical and organizational policy issues that arise when providing
consumer and family health information in different settings; the
role of the public media in disseminating health information; the
health-related information needs and preferences of racial/ethnic
minority populations

• Expertise with health information technologies, from search

engines to websites to apps

• LIS 602 Information: Organization and Search
• Practical or teaching experience with library, archival, or

cultural heritage organization and retrieval systems (e.g.,
catalogs, digital collections, databases)

• Knowledge of common standards and best practices in resource

description in libraries, archives, and similar (e.g., MARC, Dublin
Core, EAD)

• Understanding of emerging technologies and their impacts on

information organization and retrieval

• LIS 655 Collection Management
• Knowledge of collection development, selection, and

management

• Experience examining large societal forces affecting the ways

librarians have traditionally built collections and contemporary
changes in access and ownership

• Experience with both print and digital collection

management

• LIS 705 Introductory Analytics for Decision Making
• Expertise with introductory analysis of quantitative data,

including tests for significance, group differences, correlations,
regression, chi square, and basic ANOVA

• Knowledge of how to develop good testable questions, choose

appropriate study designs, and prepare numerical data for
testing

• A thorough understanding of how issues in sampling,

measurement, and research quality impact data quality

• Expertise in Excel data visualization and management

Preferred Qualifications:

• LIS 517 Digital Health: Information and Technologies Supporting

Consumers and Patients

• LIS 602 Information: Organization and Search
• LIS 705 Introductory Analytics for Decision Making
• Experience teaching students with varied technical

backgrounds

• Prior teaching experience in higher education
• Prior online teaching experience
• LIS 655 Collection Management
• Experience teaching students with varied technical

backgrounds

• Prior teaching experience in higher education
• Prior online teaching experience

Education:

• Minimum of a Master's degree in Information Studies or closely

related field required.

How to Apply:

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To be considered for this recruitment, you must upload into the
single attachment field:

• Resume
• Cover Letter

The materials should address your experience relating to the
qualifications referenced above.

There is only one attachment field; please upload all
application materials here. Your cover letter should address your
course(s) of interest, qualifications as they pertain to the number
of semesters as the lead instructor in college credit courses and
type of relevant work experience listed above.

References will not be contacted without advance notice. All listed
application materials must be submitted for your application to
be

considered. Please submit only the materials specified; additional
materials will not be reviewed.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring
their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or
national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a
foreign national authorized to work in the United States without
need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of
appointment.

Contact Information: Steve Sylte ssylte@wisc.edu

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