Position Opening: MIT Associate Director for Collections
From:
Millicent R Gaskell <mrg_at_mit.edu>
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*ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR COLLECTIONS*
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries seek an accomplished
senior manager to lead its programs for the stewardship of the full
range of general, archival, and special collections that support MITs
mission. The Associate Director will lead a group of innovative and
entrepreneurial staff in developing resources and services that support
MITs education and research programs and that facilitate worldwide
scholarly communication. This leader will also be responsible for
fostering the strong collaborative relationships required between the
acquisition and development of content, and the services that directly
support their access, preservation, and use.
The Associate Director will bring a collaborative approach to setting
strategic directions and managing collection activities. The
Collections directorate encompasses several critical spheres of
activities within the MIT Libraries. These include all centralized
operations related to acquiring, storing, preserving, and facilitating
discovery through metadata creation and enhancement to the Libraries'
physical and digital collections; licensing and managing access to a
rapidly growing array of digital content; managing and preserving
digitized and born-digital materials across their life cycle; and all
archives, rare books, special collections, and records management
activities. Reporting to the Director of Libraries, the Associate
Director oversees three departments totaling nearly 60 staff
Collections Strategy and Management; Curation and Preservation Services;
and the Institute Archives and Special Collections, which includes MITs
Records Management Program and the Lewis Music Library.
The Associate Director is a member of the Libraries' senior management
team, and participates in strategic planning, program development and
evaluation, budget formulation, and resource allocation. S/he also
participates in planning for new and renovated library spaces, plays a
role in fundraising and resource development programs, and promotes the
visibility of the Libraries both within and outside MIT. With the
Director and other Associate Directors, s/he is responsible for
developing collaborative relationships with other MIT departments,
universities, and organizations; and for representing the MIT Libraries
regionally, nationally, and internationally.
*REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS* for the position include:
Advanced academic degree. (PhD or professional degree preferred.)
Seven or more years of successful management and supervisory experience
in increasingly responsible positions.
Significant experience in a research library including strategic
planning and budgeting.
Experience in collection development and management.
Demonstrated knowledge of:
oBest practices and current trends in both digital and physical resource
management and operations.
oCopyright and intellectual property issues.
oArchives, rare books, special collections, and records management
theory and practice.
oPreservation and digital content management.
Demonstrated success in:
oLeading and managing organizational change.
oCollaboration and strategic partnering.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability
to be an articulate spokesperson and presenter.
Evidence of a strong commitment to diversity and a leadership style
that is transparent and inclusive.
Thorough understanding of issues facing research libraries including
the changing landscape of scholarly communication.
Ability to develop creative solutions.
Flexibility in accomplishing objectives.
Record of sustained professional contribution and engagement.
*SALARY AND BENEFITS: *Commensurate with 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://jobs.mit.edu/ <http://jobs.mit.edu/>.
Applications must include cover letter, resume, and contact information
for three references. Review of applications will begin March 2, 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 EBSCOs 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 MITs DataVerse for licensed social science
datasets.
Received on Fri Feb 27 2015 - 03:01:45 EST