Collection Strategies Coordinator
Position Summary
The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a forward-looking and collaborative individual for the newly developed position of Collection Strategies Coordinator. Reporting to the Director of Collections, the position will manage a recently established Collections Strategy team, which includes approximately three faculty librarians and one or more staff. The coordinator will lead this team in developing strategy and stewarding the UGA Libraries’ significant investment in research collections and open scholarship.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Design and implement a sustainable framework for evidence-based collections analysis to support strategic decision-making and collection development policies in line with the university’s research mission.
- Provide direction, mentorship, and evaluation for a team of library faculty and staff engaged in collection development.
- Direct the gathering of collection data for ongoing collection assessment and analysis, using a variety of systems and tools, including catalog holdings and circulation (Ex Libris Primo and Alma), acquisitions systems (e.g. GOBI), and e-resource usage (e.g. vendor-supplied COUNTER statistics; SUSHI harvesting for COUNTER reports).
- Provide reports evaluating Libraries resources for a variety of collection assessment and analysis projects that contribute to decision-making for the addition, renewal, and cancellation of resources, for budget planning, and for the formulation of policies.
- Contribute to collection management of the Libraries’ extensive physical collections by designing and executing data-informed initiatives to de-duplicate, relocate, and otherwise strategically align Libraries’ holdings with evolving user needs.
- Monitor trends in publishing, open access, and transformative agreements, advocating for sustainable models of scholarly content acquisition.
- Coordinate and manage collection development in discipline specific areas as needed, by communicating with publishers and vendors, performing content selection and renewal, and monitoring approval plans and user-driven acquisition programs.
- Participate in working groups and project teams to advance collection assessment efforts related to collection review, management, and development goals and the evolving strategic priorities of the Libraries and University.
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