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.

AEL Collegiate Essay Contest

Pepperdine Libraries is pleased to facilitate an annual essay contest for US college students. Americanism Educational Leaders, which supports this scholarship, strives to provide students with opportunities to discover, understand, and appreciate some aspect of the American experience. The competition goes live in the spring and the deadline for submission is May 31.

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.

Librarian for Special Collections
Malibu Campus

The Librarian for Special Collections contributes to teaching, learning, and research at Pepperdine by serving as a contributing member of the Special Collections and Archives Group. In this capacity, the Librarian provides curatorial oversight of the Malibu Historical Collection, the Starr Art and Music Collection, and related rare book and archives collections. The Librarian, who enjoys faculty status and is guided by the librarian handbook, focuses on rare book curation, collection development, research support, and preservation. The incumbent is involved in classroom instruction, focusing on classes related to Malibu history, the history of the book, printing history, and manuscripts. Additionally, the Librarian supervises graduate and undergraduate interns and is responsible for coordinating the student-employee program for the department.

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