Jobs and Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

Open Access Publishing Support Program

Open access publishing has received considerable attention in recent years and has increasingly become a viable means for faculty and staff authors to make their works available to the scholarly community in a timely manner. To encourage open access publishing and to help faculty and staff authors address any associated financial challenges, Pepperdine Libraries, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, now offers open access publishing support stipends. Faculty and staff authors may apply for up to $3,000 in award money each academic year.

Jobs

Student Assistants

Payson Library seeks energetic, service-oriented students to join the team. Faculty, staff, and students depend upon local library services, interlibrary services, and resource sharing to support their research and educational needs. Library student workers play a key role in helping the Libraries achieve these goals. The Libraries support the research and instructional needs of the campus community. Operations encompass a wide variety of activities that range from shelving library materials and basic data entry to complex office/business activities and public service. Library student workers support these activities as well as provide the majority of staffing on weekday evenings and weekends.

For undergrad students wishing to apply for a position at Payson Library, please complete the online application.

For graduate student assistant positions at our Graduate Campus Library locations, please contact the appropriate Campus Library for additional information.

Staff/Librarian Positions

Full-time professional positions are listed on the Pepperdine Jobs website and are occasionally reposted here.

Public Services Assistant, West Los Angeles Campus

Reporting to the West Los Angeles (WLA) Campus Librarian, the Public Services Assistant oversees daytime library operations at the WLA Campus Library and provides support to libraries on other Pepperdine campuses as needed. The Public Services Assistant performs a variety of duties to assist Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff, which include checking out library materials, assisting patrons, navigating the library catalog, answering directional questions, helping patrons with printing documents, and answering basic reference questions in person and via the library’s chat reference service. Additionally, the person in this position adds assigned readings from online and WLA campus classes to the library’s e-reserves platform.

Making and Innovation Specialist, Malibu Campus

Working closely with both the Director of the Genesis Lab and the Drescher Graduate Campus Librarian, the Making and Innovation Specialist is responsible for maintaining Pepperdine Libraries’ makerspaces and promoting the use of their emerging technologies and creative resources to faculty, students, and staff in alignment with the University’s mission and strategic plan. The Making and Innovation Specialist works in the Payson Library Genesis Lab Makerspace and the Drescher Library iLab, which are both located on Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus, and provides support for makerspaces at other campus libraries in Southern California.