San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, proactive, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Head of Technical Services. Review will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received by September 26, 2016. Applicants must apply via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/37027
San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, proactive, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Head of Technical Services. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, collegial, user-focused librarian who will be able to provide leadership as we reorganize our technical services departments and migrate to a new consortial and local integrated library management system. This position will provide timely and strategic management of resource description and metadata activities to support the research, teaching, and learning needs of the university community. The incumbent will be responsible for the overall management and staff supervision of the division, including acquisitions, cataloging, classification, physical processing, database and electronic resource maintenance, and processing of government publications. These units currently consist of 3 tenured librarians and 9 support staff. As a member of the Library faculty, this position will be actively involved in library governance activities and will provide expertise regarding innovations in information organization, discovery, and access.
This position will be appointed at the rank of Associate Librarian.