Opportunities

Title: Library Futures Research Manager
‍Position Type: Full Time
‍Salary: $70,000-$90,000 (max). Plus full NYU Comprehensive Benefit Plan.
‍Hours/week: 35-40 for two years with possibility of renewal
‍Location: Remote, with supervision in Boston and New York
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Library Futures, a project of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy dedicated to tackling cutting edge legal, policy, and advocacy issues around libraries and access to knowledge seeks to hire a Research Manager to help us build a responsive, research-driven, and thoughtful library organization to tackle cutting-edge issues in libraries and access to information. Together with our small team and broad community you will be responsible for producing meaningful research on the future of libraries in the digital space.

Do you love research, project management, and writing? Are you a data and policy wonk with a passion for libraries? Reporting to the Director, this position will imagine, scope, provide input on, and manage our research and data outputs. This role will also be responsible for directly managing our part-time clinical students at the NYU Engelberg Center.

We’re looking for a self-motivated and highly collaborative person. Flexibility, kindness, creativity, a positive attitude, and focus on the big picture – with an attention to detail – are key to success in this role. 

Your relevant skills and experience

• Background in librarianship and/or qualitative and quantitative research methods. MLS, JD, or MPP preferred but not required
• Strong foundation in qualitative and quantitative research
• 2-6 years of experience preferred
• Knowledge of or interest in the digital lending environment, publishing, copyright, vendor negotiations, and other digital library issues as reflected in the Library Futures principles.
• Experience with stakeholder management, community engagement, project management, and group facilitation.
• Good communicator internally and externally – can share results in an actionable way
• Empathetic listener, thoughtful collaborator, curious, with a commitment to creative problem solving
• Experience in leading successful work projects to completion and presenting them to a broad audience

Nice to have

• Experience with data sets, SQL, or data cleaning
• Background in cultural economics
• Strong background and training in library policy, advocacy, and copyright
• Experience in data modeling and visualization
• Quantitative research experience including surveys, sampling, and data presentation
• Experience conducting and directing qualitative research projects including focus groups and interviews
• Management experience

In this job, you will

• Identify and research emerging trends in library technology through qualitative and quantitative methods
• Collaborate with the Library Futures Director and Fellows, Engelberg Staff, and community partners to draft and edit whitepapers, briefs, policy statements, journal articles, and other research outputs
• Conduct new research in emerging technologies and synthesize existing research for a broad audience
• Identify and utilize relevant datasets and other existing research for visualization and incorporation into Library Futures research outputs
• Manage 3-4 student research fellows every semester

Additional Details

• This is a two year grant-funded position with possibility of renewal
• Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas at this time
• Library Futures is fully remote, with operations in Boston and New York City. Applicants must be available within 3 hours of EST

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and expressly invite all qualified applicants, particularly people of color.
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In order to apply, please fill out this form and email your resume to info@libraryfutures.net with the subject line: ""[NAME] Research Manager Resume" – no text in the body is necessary. Applications will be closed on March 1. We expect interviews and followups to take place throughout the month of March.

Position Type: Student Research Fellow
Stipend: $15/hour, 5 hours/week
Hours/week: 5
Location: Remote, with supervision in New York City

Library Futures, a project of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy dedicated to tackling cutting edge legal, policy, and advocacy issues around libraries and access to knowledge, is looking for paid student researchers for the Summer and Fall 2023 semester.
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Student Researchers will work with Library Futures and the Engelberg community, including our Directors, Research Manager, and Fellows to draft policy documents on a variety of topics facing public institutions, libraries, museums, and archives. The work will involve doing research on digital policy topics and crafting digestible, thoughtful guidelines and informational, educational tools for information professionals to better understand technology policy and issues facing public institutions. Through this work, student researchers will learn how to clearly articulate policy for a broad, non-expert audience and connect with information professionals and/or institutional general counsel at universities, libraries, and archives. Students will also become more fluent in issues of copyright, antitrust, mergers, filtering, digital ownership, censorship, contracts, and other issues. Due to the nature of the work, student researchers could also produce creative work in the form of videos, infographics, or podcasts that clearly explain policy issues related to digital libraries, archives, and museums.
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Student Fellows can expect to work approximately 5 hours per week for the summer and fall semester.

Interested students should send a resume and brief paragraph explaining their interest to engelberg.center@nyu.edu with the subject line "Student Fellowship, Library Futures".