Government & Public Policy Librarian

Association of Research Libraries; Zhob; Hybrid; PKR 21,607,000 - 30,471,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 vacation days

13 paid holidays

Health insurance

Life insurance

University retirement contributions

Childcare and adoption assistance

Child tuition reimbursement

Funding for professional training and

Job summary

Cornell University Library is seeking a Government & Public Policy Librarian to serve as the liaison to the Department of Government and the Brooks School of Public Policy. The role involves planning, delivering, and assessing research and instruction services in person and digitally, and collaborating on government and social science collections and outreach.

The successful candidate will have at least five years of professional experience, an MLS or related advanced degree, and a demonstrated

Qualifications

• MLS or equivalent in library/information science (ALA-accredited) or related social science field.
• Minimum five years of relevant work experience with increasing responsibility.
• Ability to build relationships with students, scholars, and colleagues through teaching or research.
• Experience searching federal, municipal, and international data portals and government document archives.
• Academic background in or experience with a social science discipline.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and outreach in a scholarly community.
• Professional service or scholarship contributions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as library liaison to the Department of Government and to the Brooks School of Public Policy.
• Plan, provide, and assess traditional and innovative research and instruction services, in person and digitally.
• Collaborate with Social Sciences Collection Development for government, public policy, and social science materials.
• Support data discovery and access to government documents for researchers.
• Engage scholars with the Library’s collections, services, and spaces.

Skills

Relationship building

Teaching experience

Research support

Data search across portals

Collaboration with faculty

Diversity and inclusion

Service and scholarship

Education

MLS/ALA-accredited MLS

Advanced degree in Political Science/Public Policy or related social science

Tools

Government data archives

Academic data repositories

Job description

Cornell University Library Job Location: Date Created: 10/21/2026

Cornell University Library (CUL) is seeking applications for a Government & Public Policy Librarian.

Reporting to the Harriet Morel Oxman ’48 Director of Catherwood Library & Social Sciences, the Government & Public Policy Librarian will serve as the library liaison to the Cornell Department of Government and to the Brooks School of Public Policy. You will contribute to planning, providing and assessing a wide array of traditional and innovative, in-person and digital research and instruction services.

In collaboration with the Social Sciences Collection Development Team, you will select materials for government, public policy and social science collections. You’ll work collaboratively to develop resources and services to support researchers with the discovery of data and government documents, and design and implement strategies to engage scholars with the Library’s collections, services, and spaces.

Librarians at Cornell University hold academic appointments as Research, Teaching, and Extension faculty. The incumbent must meet Cornell University Library requirements for Research, Teaching, and Extension (RTE) faculty promotion and reappointment through engagement in service and scholarship activities.

The successful candidate will bring at least five years’ professional experience supporting research, teaching, and learning in higher education or closely related environments and will be prepared to contribute immediately as a liaison librarian and research partner.

Candidate Profile

Required qualifications

• A master’s degree in library and/or information science from an ALA-accredited institution or an advanced degree in a related discipline such as Political Science, Public Policy, or another social science field.
• A minimum of five years of relevant work experience with increasing responsibility.
• A demonstrated ability to build relationships and foster collaboration with students, scholars, and library colleagues, as demonstrated through, for example, teaching or research experience.
• Demonstrated experience searching varied sources for data and documents of interest to researchers—such as searching federal, municipal, and international data portals, secondary scholarly literature, academic data repositories, government document archives.
• Academic background in or demonstrated library experience with a social science discipline.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to fostering learning, research and/or outreach in a diverse community.
• Demonstrated examples of professional and university service, scholarship, or professional contributions.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with collection development
• Academic background in or demonstrated library experience with public policy or government

Work Location

This position is located in Ithaca, New York. The incumbent will typically work on the Ithaca campus a minimum of 4 days per week, with potential for entering into a flexible work arrangement to allow remote work 1 day per week. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.

The New York convenience of employer guidelines requires New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside New York State.

We anticipate filling this position at the academic rank of Associate Librarian. At Cornell, the typical Associate Librarian goes through a formal promotion process requiring at least five years of relevant professional experience as a librarian. Appointment to this rank may also include someone with more years of relevant professional experience who has not yet completed a formal review for promotion to librarian. The anticipated salary range for the Associate Librarian role is $78,000-$110,000.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes 22 vacation days, 13 paid holidays, health insurance, life insurance, university retirement contributions, childcare and adoption assistance, and child tuition reimbursement. Funding is available to support professional training and research.

Relocation assistance

Relocation assistance may be provided.

Visa sponsorship

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Cornell University is an innovative institution and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students, and staff imparts an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contributes creative ideas to further the University’s mission of teaching, discovery, and engagement. Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca, New York sits on 2,300 acres in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. Ithaca offers a wealth of arts, culture, and outdoor activities while maintaining an eclectic college-town feel. The city has been named one of the top 100 places to live, a top 10 recreation city, a best green place to live, and one of the “foodiest” towns in America. Cornell’s global presence includes the Weill Cornell medical college’s campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Doha, Qatar, as well as the Cornell Tech campus located on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

Consistent with Cornell’s practice, appointment to academic positions requires candidates to disclose relevant information about their prior employment including whether they have been found to have violated institutional or employer policies related to or governing unlawful discrimination and harassment, academic and research misconduct, or financial misconduct.

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