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.

Drescher Graduate Campus Librarian, Malibu Campus

The Drescher Graduate Campus Librarian is a key member of the team of library faculty and staff who together manage the operations of the graduate campus libraries at Pepperdine University. In alignment with the University’s mission and strategic plan, the Drescher Graduate Campus Librarian develops strong working relationships with faculty, students, staff, and affiliated researchers at the Graziadio Business School, School of Public Policy, and Graduate School of Education and Psychology to support their learning, research, and teaching needs through collections and services. The person in this position is responsible for providing group and individual instruction and consultation for basic and advanced research and for academic courses. Additionally, the librarian collaborates with colleagues to enhance existing programs and services and to develop new programs and services that promote the use of the libraries’ collections, services, and expertise as opportunities arise.

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.