ACQflash: Available Positions at the University of Michigan

Subject: Available Positions at the University of Michigan
From: "Knott, Martin" <amuro_at_umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:57:11 -0400



AVAILABLE LIBRARIAN and PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARY

The University of Michigan Library seeks innovative librarians to join a 
dynamic, collegial team engaged in advancing research, collections, 
teaching, and learning in a client-oriented environment. Successful 
candidates for our positions will balance a wide range of 
service-oriented activities from reference services to collection 
development to electronic resource management to outreach and teaching.

Humanities and Social Sciences Subject Specialists
The Graduate Library Reference Department seeks creative, 
client-centered, advanced subject librarians to support the research, 
teaching, and learning of faculty and students in the English Language 
and Literature, History, and American Culture departments. As a liaison 
to one or more of these prominent academic departments, the subject 
specialist will assume direct responsibility for collection development, 
reference and research consultation, and instruction to a diverse 
community of faculty and students engaged in scholarship and study 
typically centered in one or more of the following disciplines: American 
Culture, American History, American Literature, British History, British 
Literature, Comparative Literature, French History, or Religious 
Studies. Candidates with relevant background in these subject areas, and 
strong interest in the opportunities and challenges for scholarship and 
teaching posed by our digital era, are particularly encouraged to apply.

Outreach Librarian and Curator
The Special Collections Library seeks an experienced, user-centered, 
specialist to invite and support teaching and learning of faculty, 
students, and others using its collections. The person in this position 
will promote the use of collections in appropriate courses through 
direct contact with departments and individual faculty, as well as with 
subject liaisons among librarian colleagues. The position also holds 
responsibility for curating collections in the humanities and 
participating in the general public service work of the unit. The 
successful candidate will bring to the position a deep knowledge of book 
history and book arts and a passion for sharing that knowledge, and will 
have the ability to function as part of a collegial, dynamic, and 
creative team within the Special Collections Library and the University 
Library.


Head of Electronic Acquisitions and Licensing Unit
In keeping pace with the fast changing trends in technologies related to 
the delivery of full-text scholarly resources, the Technical Services 
Division is seeking an innovative and energetic librarian to coordinate 
the Library’s electronic resource licensing and acquisitions efforts. 
With a service-oriented outlook, this librarian will work directly with 
colleagues library-wide to manage a complex and rapidly expanding 
e-resources collection. We seek a librarian interested in exploring the 
following: Development of an electronic resource management system; 
design of a flexible and efficient ordering and licensing workflow; 
Impact of archival and perpetual rights on collection development 
decisions; new standards for acquisitions and licensing metadata.

The University of Michigan, a leader in undergraduate and graduate 
education and one of the world’s premier research universities, has 
prominent faculty, rigorous academic programs, and a diverse cultural 
and social environment. Recent leadership examples include the launch of 
HathiTrust (http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/ 
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/> ), an unparalleled opportunity for the 
creation of new services in support of the teaching, learning, and 
research mission of the University; facility upgrades in support of 
undergraduate learning, writing, and research; launching of a new video 
archives collection; and our successful outreach efforts in support of 
medical clinical staff in support of evidence-based medicine. Situated 
in the heart of Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan is in a unique 
urban area with a small-town atmosphere and a vibrant cultural and 
intellectual sensibility.

Individuals with interest in and appropriate qualifications for one or 
more of these positions are encouraged to apply. For more information 
about specific responsibilities and qualifications, please visit 
http://www.lib.umich.edu/node/15221 
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/node/15221> To apply, send application (cover 
letter & resume) as an email attachment to Robert Campe at 
libhumres_at_umich.edu <mailto:libhumres_at_umich.edu> c/o Library Human 
Resources; 404 Hatcher Graduate Library North; University of Michigan; 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205. For further information, call 734 764-2546.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the 
positions are filled. The University of Michigan is a 
non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer.


mlk

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Martin L. Knott
University of Michigan Library
Head, Electronic Resources and Database Management Section
(734) 763-9529
amuro_at_umich.edu


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