[Hiring] Lecturer @Universities of Wisconsin

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• Experience with selecting and training on appropriate and accurate materials for consumer health and family education.
• Expertise with health information technologies, from search engines to websites to apps.
• Practical or teaching experience with library, archival, or cultural heritage organization and retrieval systems.
• Knowledge of common standards and best practices in resource description in libraries, archives, and similar.
• Understanding of emerging technologies and their impacts on information organization and retrieval.
• Knowledge of collection development, selection, and management.
• Experience examining large societal forces affecting the ways librarians have traditionally built collections.
• 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Master's degree in Information Studies or closely related field required.

Benefits

• 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.

How to Apply

Click the "Apply" button to start the application process. 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 on or before the effective date of appointment.

Contact Information

Steve Sylte: [email protected]

Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.