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Collection Strategies Librarian

Collection Strategies Librarian

UCLA Job Location: California Apply By: 01/16/2020 Date Created: 12-20-2019

Department: Collection Management & Scholarly Communication Rank and Salary: Assistant Librarian to Librarian ($64,552 to $96,266) Position Availability: Immediately Application deadline for first consideration: January 16, 2020   The UCLA Library seeks a collaborative, motivated, and knowledgeable Collection Strategies Librarian to contribute enthusiasm, expertise, and strategic insight to the shared work of building collections that support and advance the research and curricular priorities of a dynamic, world-renowned University.   Position Duties Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management & Scholarly Communication, the successful candidate for this new position will contribute to the Implementation and development of policies and practices for collection development, assessment, and management. Working closely with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders the Collection Strategies Librarian will support the alignment of library collections with the broad, deep, and evolving research, teaching, and scholarly communication priorities of UCLA and the UCLA Library.   Specific duties and responsibilities include:
  • Leads on-going efforts and new initiatives to evaluate and acquire interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary resources;
  • Monitors budget allocations and expenditures for the approximately $15M library acquisitions budget;
  • Contributes to the development of budgets for materials in all formats, seeking to ensure appropriate allocations across subject and disciplinary lines, and investments that promote open collections, emerging resource types and means (e.g., datasets; streaming), and efficiencies (e.g., shelf-ready, metadata provision);
  • Leads efforts to develop and implement user-focused, evidence-based collection analysis;
  • Coordinates and maintains effective relationships with vendors, publishers, and consortia, contributing to selection decisions, cost and license negotiations, subscription renewals, and product trials;
  • Supports advocacy with vendors, publishers, and library stakeholders to advance new models for developing library collections that integrate with the UCLA Library's open access goals;
  • Oversees consolidated approval plans;
  • Collaborates with colleagues at UCLA, the California Digital Library and other UC campuses to negotiate terms and agreements for licensing local and shared resources with vendors, publishers and other UC libraries;
  • Supports UCLA's participation in regional, national, and international consortial collaborations (including shared collections and coordinated collection development initiatives), and contributes to decision-making for UC-wide licensed resources;
  • Works closely with Library Development to identify and steward donors, collections, and endowed gift funds.
  The successful candidate will be committed to promoting and enhancing diversity through engagement with and promotion of the UCLA Principles of Community, and have a commitment to building and advancing diversity and inclusion in library collections and services.     Description of Unit Collection Management & Scholarly Communication (CM&SC) –comprised of the departments Resource Acquisitions & Metadata Services, Scholarly Communication, Preservation, and the Southern Regional Library Facility -- is responsible for the life cycle of the UCLA Library collections by building, preserving and providing access to a rich, deep collection of physical and digital materials that support UCLA's fundamental mission of teaching, research and public service.   Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply here: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF05185

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