Head of Acquisitions and E-Resources Management
UCLA Job Location: California Date Created: 07-27-2018
Department: Law Library
Rank and Salary: Associate Librarian -- Librarian ($69,550 - $88,531)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: August 20, 2018
Position Duties
Under the general direction of the Director, Bibliographic Services and Collection Management, the Head of Acquisitions and E-Resources Management is responsible for and oversees all acquisitions processes for the Law Library's print and electronic resources, taking the lead role in managing publisher/vendor licenses and access to electronic information resources. Has primary responsibility for troubleshooting access problems and shares link maintenance activities with the Law Library's cataloging section. Supervises a staff of four FTE. Communicates with external providers, including publishers, vendors and content providers, with a view to ensuring timely access to materials. The Head of Acquisitions and E-Resources Management assists the Director, Bibliographic Services in tracking the expenditures of the Law Library's book budget and works with the acquisitions staff to resolve complex problems relating to those expenditures.
The UCLA Law Library serves the Law School faculty and students as their basic library and study resource for teaching and research. There are approximately 1,200 law students, approximately 100 full and part-time faculty, and more than 120 Law School staff. The school has a varied and demanding curriculum, highly productive faculty, an extensive clinical and externship program and a co-curricular program that includes an active Moot Court program and 15 law reviews. The Law Library also supplies the legal literature resources for other UCLA faculty, students, and staff with a need for such materials. Heavy use of the Law Library is made by members of the UCLA community and members of the bar.
The Law Library is one of the larger professional school libraries on campus. It currently has a staff of 18 librarians and 14 staff personnel, as well as many part-time student employees. It contains over 600,000 bound volumes and documents and over 30,000 microforms. The administration of the Law Library is headed by the Director of the Law Library, who reports to the Dean of the School of Law. The day-to-day functions of the Library have been divided into four sections: Reference and Research Services, Scholarship Support and Research Assistant Program, Bibliographic Services and Collection Management, and Access and Information Services. The Bibliographic Services department staff have extensive interaction with the other departments of the Law Library, and also interact with faculty, students and other Law School personnel. In cooperation with the University Library system, the Law Library is heavily involved in automation with acquisitions and cataloging functions handled through the Voyager system. The Law Library has a beautiful facility that opened in the fall of 1998.
