Head of Serials & Electronic Rscs Mgmt, Stony Brook U (NY)
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 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.
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 sizeable 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
integrates 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.
Descriptive Title: Head of Serials and Electronic Resources Management REF#: F-9754-17-03
Budget Title: Senior Assistant/Associate Librarian Faculty Position
Department: University Libraries Campus: Stony Brook West Campus/HSC
Salary: Commensurate with Experience
Required
Qualifications: Master's in library from an ALA accredited institution
or equivalent combination of education and experience. At least three
years of significant experience in serials and electronic resources
management. Experience with facilitating access to serials and resources
through library catalogs and discovery tools. Evidence of successful
and creative management of staff and operations, including demonstrated
potential for leading transformational change. Evidence of leadership in
the fields of knowledge access and resource management, including
demonstrated effective management, planning, and organizational skills.
Ability to lead in an atmospheric of continuous change, to work within a
collaborative environment with diverse groups and to inspire and
motivate. Strong collaboration and communication skills. Record of
professional activities, including research and engagement in
professional organizations. Demonstrated knowledge of emerging areas of
librarianship, including the capabilities and future trends of library
technology and systems to optimize discovery and access to scholarly
resources. Supervisory and training experience.
Preferred
Qualifications: Additional advanced degree. Working knowledge of one or
more non-English languages. Knowledge of and experience with vendor
license negotiations and consortial collection of development. Solid
understanding of the research university environment and scholarly
communication issues. Experience in coordination or management of
integrated library system functions, including experience with Ex
Libris' Aleph system. Demonstrated ability to work with library and
university constituencies, including library and academic faculty.
Strong service orientation.
Responsibilities
& Requirements: Under the direction of the Direction of Collection
and Resource Management, the Head of Serials and Electronic Resources
Management provides leadership, guidance, and expertise to the
departments, including supervision of faculty librarians and
professional staff. The Head of Serials and Electronic Resources
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:
* Provide leadership, guidance, and expertise to the Department of
Serials and Electronic Serials Management, including regular review of
department faculty librarians and professional staff.
* Advise Director of Collection and Resource Management in the
articulation of a user-centered, holistic serials and electronic
resources management vision to meet current and emerging information
needs and new models of collection/content building and delivery.
* Review and evaluate workflows and work assignments, with an eye
toward increasing efficiencies, bringing more high-quality content to
users more quickly, and building sustainable workflows to handle
increasingly heterogeneous digital assets.
*
Plan, implement, and evaluate operations, establish and document
policies and procedures, and set priorities in serials and electronic
resources management.
* Train, evaluate, and
supervise departmental staff, and ensure compliance with local policy
and procedure, resource license agreements, as well as best practices in
the profession.
* Provide budget and
collection data to Director of Collection and Resource Management and
Associate Dean for Collection Strategy and Management, as well as
liaison librarians as appropriate.
* Administer and allocate expenditures for serials and electronic resources in library management system.
* Manage troubleshooting and resolution of access issues, consulting and advising Library IT staff as appropriate.
* Manage subscription renewals and monitor vendors to ensure quality service and accurate pricing.
* Work with the Director of Collection and Resource Management to
assess, implement, and manage vendor arrangements for the outsourcing
and/or automation of departmental work as appropriate.
* Work with SBU Library senior leadership, consortia partners, and
library/higher education organizations to identify opportunities for
improvement in Libraries/ discovery and delivery operations and
services.
* Worth with Director of
Collection and Resource Management and Libraries leadership to develop
and implement University Libraries strategic priorities and provide the
infrastructure needed to achieve those priorities.
* Work with Director of Collection and Resource Management and
Associate Dean for Collection Strategy and Management to develop,
coordinate, and implement bibliographic control policy and practices
across the ILS, Discovery, and digital repository systems.
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 if filled.
However, to guarantee consideration, please apply by 04/23/2017.
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to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive
Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant
for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior
compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a
conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information
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The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.
Application Procedure: Those interested in this position should submit a State Employment Application<https://www.asa.stonybrook.edu/asa/ASAForms/Department/HRS/Document/HRSF0113>, cover letter and resume/CV to:
Pamela DiPasquale
University Libraries Personnel
Melville Library, Room S1430B
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3300
E-Mail: library_hosaerm_F97541703@stonybrook.edulibrary_hosaerm_F97541703@stonybrook.edu
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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 09/23/2017,
unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.
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