Director of Collections and Resource Management
Stony Brook University
REF#: F-9723-16-12
DEADLINE: 03/12/2017
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Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Under the direction of the Associate Dean for Collections Strategy and Management, the Director of Collections and Resource Management provides leadership, guidance and expertise to the Department. The Director of Collections and Resource Management will be expected to conduct research and scholarship, and participate in faculty governance, committee works and continuing professional development consistent with University standards for promotion and tenure. As a faculty librarian, the successful incumbent will take an active role in liaison, reference and instruction duties. The selected candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Plan, implement, and evaluate operations, establish policies and procedures, and set priorities in acquisitions and cataloging, metadata, preservation, serials, electronic resources, and data gathering and statistics.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's Degree in Library Science from an ALA accredited institution or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in any combination of acquisitions, cataloging, metadata production services, preservation, serials and electronic resources management and licensing.
- Evidence of successful and creative management of staff and operations.
- Evidence of leadership in the fields of knowledge access and resource management, including demonstrated effective administrative, management, planning, financial and organizational skills.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Record of professional activities, including research and engagement in professional organizations.
- Solid understanding of the research university environment and scholarly communication issues. Supervisory and training experience.
- Strong presentation skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Additional advanced degree.
- Experience in a research university library performing collection development and management.
- Demonstrated potential for leading transformational change.
- Experience in coordination or management of integrated library system functions, including experience with Ex Libris' Aleph system.
- Demonstrated competency in collections assessment and evaluation across varied formats, collections and disciplines.
- Ability to lead in an atmosphere of continuous change, to work within a collaborative environment with diverse groups and to inspire and motivate.
- Demonstrated ability to work with library and University constituencies, including library and academic faculty.
- Demonstrated experience and technical expertise in working with digital repositories and collection tools.
- Demonstrated knowledge of metadata standards, rules and tools.
- Demonstrated knowledge of emerging ideas of librarianship, including the capabilities and future trend of library technology and systems to optimize and discovery and delivery scholarly resources.
- Strong service orientation.
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