STRATEGIC COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN position opening at University of North
Texas Libraries
From: "Crawford, Laurel" <Laurel.Crawford_at_unt.edu>
Position Announcement
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STRATEGIC COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN
Emphasis: Open access and born-digital materials
SUMMARY OF POSITION
The University of North Texas Libraries Collection Management Division
is looking for a collection development librarian to frame,
conceptualize, create, and maintain collections of open access and other
born-digital materials that support the institution’s scholarly research.
The Strategic Collections Librarian is responsible for ensuring optimal
integration and use of open access and open content born-digital
materials in UNT's curriculum and research programs. The librarian
monitors trends and developments in web publishing and scholarly
communications, pursues opportunities, and fosters collaborative
efforts related to open access initiatives. The librarian identifies,
acquires, classifies, and makes accessible open access and fee-free
born-digital materials. The librarian promotes use of collections of
research materials via electronic finding aids and discovery systems and
through outreach activities to faculty, staff, students and librarians.
The librarian works with stakeholders to pinpoint online resource
needs, to formulate the scope of various born-digital collections, and
to assist in the metadata editing for acquired content. The librarian
collaborates with the UNT Digital Libraries Division and other key
personnel to foster positive relationships aimed at acquiring external
digital content and exploring opportunities for cooperative collection
development. The librarian is expected to participate in scholarly,
professional, and service activities that enhance the position's
collection development responsibilities.
SPECIFIC POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
· Monitor landscape of current open access and open content trends in
collection development, licensing, web publishing, scholarly
communications and digital libraries; act as a representative of the
library to consortia and groups related to open access initiatives.
· Advocate to UNT campus in support of open access, market open access
opportunities to faculty, and conduct assessment of integration of open
access publishing by the UNT community
· Disseminate knowledge of national and international developments in
the use of open access and born digital information in instruction and
research; report significant issues to colleagues.
· Conceptualize and recommend policies and procedures for the
identification, acquisition, classification and accessibility of open
access and born-digital materials.
· Collaborate with Scholarly Communications Librarian, Institutional
Repository Librarian, and other librarians in efforts to raise awareness
of open access resources and to foster adoption of open access
principles among the faculty.
· Develop and evaluate educational and outreach marketing and programs
that promote open access and born-digital content in instruction,
research and collection use.
· Cultivate targeted subject collections of open access and born-digital
materials and serve as collection development liaison for
interdisciplinary subjects and research clusters.
· Establish and/or perform acquisitions tasks to ensure access to
content in open access and born-digital collections via resource
management systems.
· Produce finding aids to ensure discovery of content in digital
collections using LibGuides and structured metadata; collaborate with
subject liaison librarians to enhance subject guides and bibliographic
instruction with open access and born-digital collections and resources.
· Develop knowledge of licensing agreements and university contracts;
collaborate with Contracts Librarian to ensure open access content
acquired from external sources is properly licensed and accessible.
· Seek out fee-free resources from consortia or other external
providers; coordinate licensing and integration of content into resource
discovery systems and/or the UNT Digital Library.
· Participate in periodic reviews of open access content, of other
electronic resources, of journal subscriptions and in collection gap
analysis.
· Oversee life cycle management, holdings maintenance and trouble
shooting for open access resources in the Libraries' electronic resource
management (ERM) and Serials Solutions systems.
· Investigate grants and seek funding opportunities for collection
analysis and development of open access/born digital materials.
· Participate in scholarly, professional, and service activities that
enhance collection development activities and promote scholarly
communication.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• ALA-accredited Master’s Degree in Library or Information Science.
• Knowledge of collection development practices and trends.
• Experience developing online guides.
• Experience with integrated library systems.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Evidence of publishing and/or participation in professional organizations.
• Strong customer service orientation and positive interpersonal skills.
• Flexibility and ability to work in a dynamic environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience working with SpringShare’s LibGuides product.
• Understanding of open access issues.
• Demonstrated contribution to the profession through scholarly
publications and/or presentations.
• Familiarity with III's Sierra or Millennium automation system.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin and will
continue until the search is closed.
Salary and Rank: Salary and librarian ranking are commensurate with
experience and professional contributions. Librarian rank will be
determined by the Library Personnel Affairs Committee through review of
the selected candidate's education, experience, scholarly and
professional involvement, and service. Complete information about
Librarian rank can be found at
http://www.library.unt.edu/administrativeoffice/employment/librarian/academic-ranks-for-
librarians/
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: All applicants must apply to
https://facultyjobs.unt.edu
UNT is an AA/ADA/EOE.
Laurel Sammonds Crawford
Coordinator of Collection Development
University of North Texas Libraries
laurel.crawford_at_unt.edu
(940) 565 - 2762
Received on Thu Aug 07 2014 - 03:01:22 EDT