Ivy Plus Libraries, Director of Collections Initiatives
(excerpted from the full posting: http://www.arl.org/leadership-recruitment/job-listings/record/a0Id000000NbuVBEAZ)
Position Focus: The Ivy Plus Libraries (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Yale), comprising some of the greatest library collections in the world, seek an experienced, enthusiastic, and imaginative leader to plan, implement, and oversee new collaborative collections initiatives which will further integrate the vast riches of our collective collection while also expanding the breadth and depth of resources available, in any format and for scholars of today and tomorrow.
The Director of Collections Initiatives serves as the principal planner, project manager, and negotiator for initiatives that promise substantial positive impacts in the development, management, and use of collections in any format. Although this senior-level position reports to the Yale's University Librarian, it is the Ivy Plus Collection Development Group, especially its Executive Committee, which will partner with and guide the Director of Collections Initiatives to develop, implement, and assess efforts ranging from shared print storage capability to digital preservation, drawing on the unparalleled strengths of both the staff and the collections of the Ivy Plus institutions.
The Director of Collections Initiatives assists or leads program planning, project management, and coordination of key collaborative initiatives. This full-time position, with an initial three-year appointment, requires an experienced collections specialist who understands the contemporary research collections landscape in all of its complexity and whose leadership style is at once deft, decisive, and diplomatic.
Please note, there is the potential to work remotely, if operational needs allow.
Jeff Kosokoff
Head of Collection Strategy and Development
Duke University Libraries
Duke Box 90191 | Durham, NC 27708 | (919) 660-7892 | @JeffKosokoff
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