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Campus
Description: 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 Jackson Pollack House in East Hampton, New York, the Mellon
Award winning 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.
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Descriptive Title: Associate Dean for Collection Strategy and Management
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REF#: F-9533-15-08
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Budget Title: Associate Librarian/Full Librarian
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Faculty Position
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Department: Library
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Campus: Stony Brook West
Campus/HSC
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Salary: Commensurate with experience
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Required Qualifications:
Master's degree in Library/Information Science from an ALA-accredited
program or equivalent. Minimum five years of successful management
experience in increasingly responsible positions, with at least three years
in collection development, assessment, and collection management in an
academic or research library. Demonstrated knowledge of working with
publishers, library vendors and consortia, best practices and current
trends in both digital and physical resource management operations.
Demonstrated knowledge of license agreements, copyright and intellectual
property issues, information management tools, collection assessment tools
and technologies. Significant experience in managing and monitoring diverse
funding and budget accounts. Experience supervising/managing employees,
demonstrated ability to support, mentor and develop staff/faculty, as well
as work with diverse groups within the Libraries and across campus.
Demonstrated ability in strategic planning and managing change.
Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills. Thorough understanding
of issues facing research libraries, including the changing landscape of
scholarly communication. Exceptional communication, presentation and
interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple responsibilities
and work collaboratively with others in a team environment. Evidence of
flexibility and ability to thrive in a complex work environment. Active
scholarship and professional service sufficient for appointment at the
faculty rank of Associate or Full Librarian.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional advanced degree. Grant-writing, fundraising and donor relations
experience. Knowledge of digital asset management theory and practice,
including institutional repository management.
Stony Brook Libraries are known for a wide-range of print and
digital resources and world-renowned special collections. The Stony Brook
Libraries belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), with a
Health Sciences Center Library that is a member of the Association of
Academic Health Sciences Libraries. The Libraries are engaged in an
ambitious and dynamic strategic planning (2015-2018). The collection
exceeds 2 million volumes, including e-books, print and electronic holdings
of scholarly journal subscriptions, microforms, music recordings, and a
sizable map collection. The SBU Libraries include 6 distinct facilities,
including Melville Library, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry,
Math/Physics, Southampton and Health Sciences Libraries, and SUNY Korea-SBU
campus. The University’s Libraries stand as the largest academic research
library on Long Island, serving as a resource in the local community,
state-wide, and nationally and internationally. The Libraries
maintain memberships and affiliations in arXiv, Association of Research
Libraries, SPARC, Center for Research Libraries,
SUNY Connect, DuraSpace (as a SUNY member) the Council on
Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation,
Coalition of Networked Information, EDUCAUSE, Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research, Roper Center, OCLC Research
Library Partnership, and ORCID through the National Network of the National
Libraries of Medicine. The Libraries utilize Ex Libris’ Aleph for its
integrated library system and have recently deployed EBSCO’s
Discovery Service, DSpace, Content DM, and Omeka, are used for
managing digital assets and a growing Institutional Repository.
Responsibilities & Requirements:
The Associate Dean for Collection Strategy and Management reports to the
Library Dean to develop and implement a vision for the range of activities
associated with discovery and delivery of information resources, including
the selection, acquisition, description, access and preservation of
research library collections. The Associate Dean oversees three departments
totaling nearly 30 staff: Collections Strategy and Management, Curation and
Preservation Services, Special Collections and University Archives. The
selected candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Serves as a member of the library's senior leadership team to
develop the vision of a research library collection; set policies that
are reflective of University goals, and coordinate initiatives for
promoting the University Libraries.
- Works with library staff, the Stony Brook University Library
leadership, the University community, consortia partners, and
library/higher education organizations to identify opportunities for
developing a rich array of resources and enhancing access to all
library collections.
- Manages Library Collections, Acquisitions, Cataloguing &
Metadata, Serials Management Print/Electronic, Preservation, Special
Collections and University Archives operations in support of
priorities established by senior library leadership.
- Provides leadership in building a culture of innovation,
collaboration, communication, engagement and accountability to
develop, promote and implement University Libraries priorities and to
provide the infrastructure needed to achieve those priorities.
Special Notes:
This is a tenure track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the
overtime provisions of the FLSA. Internal and external search to occur
simultaneously. Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible. **Applications
will be accepted until the position is filled.
The selected candidate must successfully clear a background
investigation.
Application Procedure:
Those interested in this position should submit a State
employment application, cover letter and resume/CV
to:
Pamela DiPasquale
University Libraries Personnel Office
Melville Library, Room S1430B
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11790-3300
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Applications for this position must be
received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later
than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 02/23/2016, unless specifically noted
otherwise in the Special Notes Section.
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STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER. WE ENCOURAGE PROTECTED VETERANS, INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES,
WOMEN AND MINORITIES TO APPLY.
IF YOU NEED A DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATION, PLEASE CALL THE
UNIVERSITY HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT (631) 632-6161 OR THE
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT (631) 444-4700.
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COPY OF OUR CRIME STATISTICS IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST BY CALLING (631) 632-6350.
IT CAN ALSO BE VIEWED ON-LINE AT THE UNIVERSITY POLICE WEBSITE AT http://www.stonybrook.edu/police
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Job Category: A) Faculty and Librarian Positions.
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Posting Date: 08/25/2015
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