Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services/Senior
Assistant Librarian
Stony
Brook University: Provost Office: Library
Location
Stony Brook University
Open
Date
Jan 27, 2021
Deadline
Feb 27, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern
Time
Description
Under the direction of the Director
of Collection and Resource Management, the Head of Cataloging and Metadata
Services is a full-time, tenure-track position providing leadership,
guidance, and expertise to the department, including supervision of faculty
librarians and professional staff. The Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services
will be expected to conduct research and scholarship, and participate in
faculty governance, committee work, 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 CMS,
including regular review of cataloging and metadata faculty librarians and
professional staff.
- Advise Director of Collection and Resource Management
in the articulation of a user-centered, holistic cataloging and metadata
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
policies and procedures, and set priorities in cataloging and metadata
services.
- Train cataloging librarians and staff in cataloging /metadata
standards, new technology applications, systems, and tools to ensure
compliance with national, SUNY, and local cataloging/metadata standards
and practices (MARC, RDA, AACR2r, LCSH, LCCS, OCLC, LC, etc), and to
continuously improve cataloging efficiency and quality.
- Work with the Director of Collection and Resource
Management, Digital Projects Librarian, and Director of Special
Collections to assess, implement, and manage vendor arrangements for the
outsourcing of cataloging and metadata projects.
- 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.
- Work 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
- Participate in liaison, reference and instruction
duties.
- Participate in research, publication, teaching and
service in consonance with University standards for promotion and tenure.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Master's in library science from an ALA accredited
institution or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least three years of significant experience
in cataloging, and metadata services.
- Strong working knowledge of RDA and MARC cataloging
rules and conventions and non-MARC metadata schemas, formats, standards,
and protocols
- 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 atmosphere 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 cataloging and metadata as applied to
music and map collections.
- Experience in cataloging special collections, archival
materials, and digital collections.
- 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’ Alma and
Primo.
- Experience in batch cataloging, metadata normalization,
and metadata manipulation tools or programming languages.
- Demonstrated ability to work with library and
university constituencies, including library and academic faculty.
- Strong service orientation.
Application
Instructions
All application materials must be
submitted online. Please use the Apply Now button to begin your
application. For technical support, please visit Interfolio's
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For questions regarding this
position, please contact Pamela Di Pasquale at pamela.dipasquale@stonybrook.edu.
Special Notes: This is a tenure track position. Internal and external
search to occur simultaneously. Anticipated start date: as soon as possible.
Application Procedure: Those interested in this position should submit a
State Employment Application, cover letter, resume/CV and names and
contact information for three references. Priority will be given to
applications submitted prior to 03/02/2021, but applications will be accepted
until the position is filled.
The selected candidate must
successfully clear a background investigation.
In accordance with the Title II
Crime Awareness and Security Act, a copy of our crime statistics is available
upon request by calling (631) 632- 6350. It can also be viewed online at the
University Police website at http://www.stonybrook.edu/police.
Stony Brook University Libraries is
the largest academic research library on Long Island serving the University
population and the State University of New York system. The Library is
also a resource for the local community, state-wide, and nationally and
internationally. Known for a wide-range of print and digital resources
and world-renowned special collections, the University 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 collection exceeds 2 million volumes, including e-books,
print, streaming media, electronic holdings of scholarly journal subscriptions,
microforms, music recordings, and a sizable map collection. The SBU Libraries
include eight distinct facilities, including the recently renovated and
flagship Melville Library, Chemistry, Health Sciences, Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, Math/Physics, Music, Southampton, and SUNY Korea-SBU campus.
Currently at the start of a renewed strategic plan, the faculty and staff are a
talented and diverse group sharing in the mission and vision of the Libraries.
Librarians hold full faculty status and rank, and participate at all levels of
the University. The Libraries is currently migrating to the new Library
Services Platform, Alma with Primo VE as its discovery solution. Assets
of its actively growing institutional repository and digital collections are
managed by Omeka, Bepress Digital Commons, DSpace, and CONTENTdm.
The Libraries maintain memberships and affiliations in arXiv, Association
of Research Libraries, 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, ORCID through the National Network of the
National Libraries of Medicine, and locally with the Long Island Library
Resources Council.
Stony Brook University, one of
four research-intensive campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY)
system, is widely regarded as its flagship. The University embraces
its mission to provide comprehensive undergraduate, graduate and professional
education of the highest quality, and its rankings bear that
out. It’s included among the top 1% of universities in the world by
the 2018 QS World University Rankings and among the top 40 public
universities by U.S.News & World Report’s 2020 Best Colleges
rankings. It is a member of the prestigious Association of American
Universities, composed of the top 62 research institutions in North
America. As Long Island’s largest single-site employer, Stony Brook has
nearly 15,000 full- and part-time employees, including more than 2,700 faculty.
It enrolled roughly 26,800 students in fall 2019 — 17,900 undergraduate students
and 8,900 graduate students — and offers more than 200 majors, minors and
combined-degree programs. The Department of Athletics supports
18 Division I varsity intercollegiate athletic programs that compete at
the highest level within the NCAA. Located approximately 60 miles east of
Manhattan on Long Island’s beautiful North Shore, Stony Brook is situated on
1,454 wooded acres, encompassing 13 schools and colleges; a Research and
Development Park; world-class athletics facilities, including an 8,300-seat stadium
and a 4,000-seat arena; and Stony Brook Medicine, Long Island’s premier
academic medical center. Also part of the University is a teaching and
research campus in Southampton, New York, which offers graduate arts programs
and is the site of the Marine Sciences Center. In addition, Stony Brook
has a role in running, and performs joint research with, Brookhaven National
Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the
Northeast. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House
in East Hampton, NY, and the Humanities Institute, with endeavors that extend
to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in
Madagascar, Stony Brook sustains an international reputation that cuts across
the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Application
Process
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