Job Posting: Collections Strategist, Arts and Humanities, MIT Libraries
From:
Michelle Baildon <baildon_at_mit.edu>
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*COLLECTIONS STRATEGIST *
*(/Arts and Humanities)/*/__/
Collections Strategy and Management/
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The MIT Libraries seeks an enthusiastic professional to participate in
and lead collection development and management activities across the
organization. The ideal candidate will be an adaptive, innovative, and
strategic thinker who values collaboration, can successfully manage
projects, and who has experience with research collections in the Arts &
Humanities. The Arts & Humanities at MIT are vibrant and
interdisciplinary, and play a crucial role in an MIT education.
The Collections Strategist will work closely with an interdisciplinary
team of strategists that provides holistic strategy and direction in
collection development and management within the Libraries. S/he will
take a leadership role in developing and managing collections projects,
and will use data to inform decision-making. The Strategist will serve
as the collections leader for the Arts & Humanities Community of
Practice (A&H CoP), a forum of ten A&H librarians who creatively and
collaboratively approach shared collections decisions and priorities.
S/he will engage with the A&H librarians to build collections in light
of policies and activities in outreach, access, metadata creation,
rights management, and curation. In addition, the Collections Strategist
will have selection responsibilities in general subject resources that
broadly serve the Arts &Humanities community's teaching and research. It
is expected that the incumbent have a commitment to following trends in
library collections, scholarly communications, and research and
education in the Arts & Humanities.
*REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS*for the position include:
·MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent combination
of education and experience
·Minimum of three years' collection development experience
·A demonstrated understanding of the literature and information sources
used in one or more Arts or Humanities disciplines
·Potential and enthusiasm for leading change and implementing new
services and work methods
·Evidence of ability to summarize, present and communicate data to
diverse audiences
·A collaborative approach to problem solving and working across
organizational boundaries
·Strong analytical skills
·Experience working with vendors and publishers
·Proven interest and commitment to be engaged in research literature,
publishing practices, and emerging trends in areas of the Arts and
Humanities.
·Demonstrated project management skills
·Excellent oral and written communication skills
·Ability to work with geographically-distributed physical collections
with limited accessibility
_Preferred_
·Bachelor's or advanced degree in the Arts or Humanities or significant
experience working with Arts or Humanities collections
·Demonstrated vendor negotiation skills
·Grant-writing experience
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*SALARY AND BENEFITS: *$54,000 minimum. Actual salary and appointment
level will depend on qualifications and experience. MIT offers excellent
benefits including a choice of health and retirement plans, a dental
plan, tuition assistance and a relocation allowance. The MIT Libraries
afford a flexible and collegial working environment and foster
professional growth of staff with management training and travel funding
for professional meetings.
Apply online at: http://hrweb.mit.edu/staffing/.Applications must
include cover letter, resume, and contact information for three
references. Review of applications will begin January 7, 2015. MIT is
strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community and
particularly encourages applications from qualified women and minority
candidates.*
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/The MIT Libraries/support the Institute's programs of research and
study with holdings of more than 2.9 million print volumes and 3.1
million special format items, and terabytes of MIT-owned digital
content. In addition, rare special collections, Institute records,
historical documents, and papers of noted faculty are held in the
Institute Archives and Special Collections. Library resources and
services are accessible to students and researchers through the
Libraries' website (http://libraries.mit.edu/), and library spaces are
widely available for both collaborative work and quiet study. Library
resources are supplemented by innovative services for bioinformatics,
GIS, metadata, social science and other research data. Through a culture
that encourages innovation and collaboration, the MIT Libraries are
redefining the role of the 21^st century library -- making collections
more accessible than ever before, and shaping the future of scholarly
research. Library staff, at all levels, contribute to this spirit of
innovation and to the mission of promoting learning, discovery and the
advancement of knowledge at MIT and beyond.
The Libraries maintain memberships and affiliations in ArchivesSpace,
arXiv, Association of Research Libraries, the BorrowDirect, Boston
Library Consortium, DDI Alliance, DuraSpace, HathiTrust, CLIR/Digital
Library Federation, Coalition of Networked Information, Coalition of
Open Access Policy Institutions, EDUCAUSE, National Digital Stewardship
Alliance, NISO, North East Research Libraries, OCLC Research Library
Partnership, and ORCID. The Libraries utilize Ex Libris' Aleph for its
integrated library system and have recently deployed EBSCO's Discovery
Service. DSpace_at_MIT, a digital repository developed over the past ten
years by the MIT Libraries, serves to capture, preserve and communicate
the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and research community. Other
MIT repositories include: Dome, a second DSpace instance, providing
access to a sizable image collection and other digital collections owned
by the MIT Libraries; the MIT Geodata Repository for a diverse
collection of GIS Data; and MIT's DataVerse for licensed social science
datasets.
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Michelle Baildon
Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society
(STS) Librarian
Coordinator, Arts & Humanities Community of Practice
MIT Libraries | Hayden Library | 14S-230
77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
baildon_at_mit.edu <mailto:baildon_at_mit.edu> | 617-253-9352
Received on Thu Dec 04 2014 - 03:01:55 EST