Head of Resource Management (Librarian), University of Texas, Austin, TX
Posted October 11, 2021
Description:
Job Description: Provides leadership and expertise in the procurement, assessment, and management of print and electronic resources, including individual and package subscriptions, e-book demand driven acquisitions, open access resources, and streaming services.
Responsibilities
- Leads the Resource Management unit. Provides leadership, directs work, evaluates staff, and establishes priorities for unit that manages workflow of electronic resources including research, acquisition/subscription, implementation, and assessment. Reviews and evaluates work assignments, with an eye toward increasing efficiencies, and designing and documenting cost efficient, effective workflows. Advises in the articulation of a user-centered, holistic electronic resources management vision to meet current and emerging information needs and new models of collection/content building and delivery. Partners with vendors/publishers, Scholarly Resources Department, and other Libraries staff to solve technical issues that affect user services and to identify strategies for enhancing electronic resource accessibility and discoverability. Monitors vendor services, performs vendor evaluations, and facilitates negotiations of vendor services as needed. Promotes and ensures a customer-service focus among staff. Establishes and maintains effective communication and relationships with library staff, vendors, publishers, and consortia. Actively communicates licensing and electronic resource best practices with staff to promote mutual understanding of licensed electronic resources, public performance rights, perpetual access, and archival rights. Builds a strong network of peers at comparable institutions. Maximizes productivity through use of appropriate tools; planned training and performance initiatives. Ensures completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all operational functions.
- Participates in professional activities associated with job functions. Serves on committees, task forces, and working groups related to departmental responsibilities. Provides and supports library outreach to various stakeholders through communication and collaboration.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree from a library science or information science program, with four or more years of relevant experience in libraries, cultural heritage organizations, academic settings, or other types of organizations in a field with transferable skills and competencies.
- Minimum of three years working in acquisitions or e-resources management in an academic or large public library, or with a vendor.
- Ability to perform workflow analyses and document procedures.
- Ability to lead organizational change, inspire innovation, and delegate responsibility appropriately.
- Familiarity with reviewing and negotiating license agreements pertaining to electronic resources and the academic environment.
- Experience working with publishers and/or vendors of electronic resources.
- Evidence of maintaining current awareness of trends, standards, and ongoing developments in electronic resources.
- Ability to work collaboratively as a team member in a complex environment, working across multiple teams.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills along with strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and effectively and to play a leadership role in promoting teamwork, diversity, equality, and inclusiveness.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Supervisory experience.
- Experience in coordination or management of library services platform functions, including experience with Ex Libris’ Alma and Primo systems.
- Experience with assessment of electronic resources (usage reports, overlap reports, cost per use, etc.).
- Experience with instruction and training staff on technical topics.
- Experience implementing or using an electronic resources management system, link resolver, and/or knowledge base.
- Experience serving as a point of contact for maintenance and troubleshooting of electronic resources.
- Ability to build successful partnerships at the local, regional, and national level.
- Knowledge of assessment methods and practices for electronic resources.
- Understanding of collection management principles and budgetary management best practices.
- Strong leadership skills, including keen analytical and conceptual abilities
- Demonstrated competency in managing electronic resources & serials, preferably in an academic library.
- Demonstrated ability to collect, analyze, manipulate, and provide meaningful interpretation of data using relational databases, spreadsheet and word processing programs, and/or other online tools.
Salary Range
$60,000 + depending on qualifications
Work Shift
40 hours per week, Monday-Friday between the hours of 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. as arranged with supervisor.
How to Apply:
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Application deadline: Sunday, November 14, 2021.