Director of Collection Management Services

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Director of Collection Management Services

The University of Vermont (UVM) Libraries seek an experienced, collaborative and forward-thinking professional to serve as director of Collection Management Services (CMS). ...

Responsibilities:

• Leads in collaboratively establishing and advocating for department goals, priorities, and policies in alignment with the University Libraries' and the University's strategic initiatives.
• Provides oversight and accountability for collection budgets across the Libraries, making data-informed and user-centered decisions to shape annual allocation and spending decisions.
• Shapes and implements strategic vision for library collections. Leads the development of workflows and processes for the acquisition, description and disposal of print and electronic materials.
• Provides strategic guidance for the cataloging of all materials in the UVM Libraries. Develops and leads the coordination of e-resource and metadata projects and services to support metadata standards, creation, workflows and interoperability between formats and systems.
• Supports the development of faculty and staff within the department. Creates and fosters strong relationships with colleagues in collection development, acquisitions, cataloging, the Libraries as a whole, the university, and external partners and organizations.
• Collaborates with Silver Special Collections Library and faculty cataloger on strategies for description and cataloging of rare and unique collections.
• Collaborates with Dana Health Sciences Library to ensure that workflows, strategy and departmental outcomes support the needs of clinicians, researchers and hospital stakeholders.
• Develops a clear and compelling vision for the ways the work of this department can promote the Libraries' commitment to free, universal access to information and support the development of skilled researchers and informationally literate citizens.
• Crafts cooperative collection-development and collection-management strategies with other libraries, both locally and nationally, especially within the Boston Library Consortium (BLC).
• Cultivates a personal research agenda and service portfolio. Engages in and contributes to the profession with scholarship, creative activity, and service related to professional and scholarly interests through publications, presentations, and committee work at local, state, regional, and national levels.
• Works with departmental faculty and staff, library colleagues and others to design and implement initiatives focused on inclusive excellence.

Required Qualifications:

• A master's degree (M.L.S., M.S., or M.A. in Library or Information Science, or other variant) from a program accredited by the American Library Association or the equivalent professional credential in librarianship. Those who have a master's degree or PhD in another field and have completed a formal program providing training as a librarian may also be eligible.
• A record of scholarship and publications (and/or portfolio of creative activity) (a) consistent with the expectations for library associate or library full faculty at the University of Vermont and (b) of a quantity and quality that positions the candidate as an skilled and savvy mentor for faculty in their own scholarship.
• At least five years' professional experience in an academic library, with three or more years at a supervisory level.
• Experience coordinating interactions between cataloging, acquisitions, and collection-development operations and demonstrated familiarity with collection-management methodologies and collection-analysis tools, and principles and practices of cataloging.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing collaborative and collegial relationships between library departments and functions.
• Demonstrated experience of leadership, management, and mentoring.
• Experience in project management.
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively with colleagues, faculty and staff.
• Fluency in developments in the scholarly publishing landscape, especially in open-access publishing and efforts to make collections accessible to everyone.
• Excellent oral, written, listening and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with library technology, including systems similar to those employed at UVM (e.g., Alma, Libnova, etc.).
• Demonstrated commitment to UVM's Our Common Ground values and to the ALA core values of librarianship.

Desired (Non-Essential) Qualifications:

• Familiarity with medical and health sciences librarianship and/or special collections.
• Experience working with staff and/or faculty librarians in a union environment.
• Experience in contract negotiation and/or in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with vendors, consortia and publishers.