Director of Collection Management Services

Position Details

The University of Vermont (UVM) Libraries seek an experienced, collaborative and forward-thinking professional to serve as director of Collection Management Services (CMS).

Responsibilities:

• Leads in collaboratively establishing and advocating for department goals, priorities, and policies in alignment with the University Libraries’ and the University’s strategic initiatives.
• Provides oversight and accountability for collection budgets across the Libraries, making data-informed and user-centered decisions to shape annual allocation and spending decisions.
• Shapes and implements strategic vision for library collections.
• Leads the development of workflows and processes for the acquisition, description and disposal of print and electronic materials.
• Provides strategic guidance for the cataloging of all materials in the UVM Libraries.
• Develops and leads the coordination of e-resource and metadata projects and services to support metadata standards, creation, workflows and interoperability between formats and systems.
• Supports the development of faculty and staff within the department.
• Crafts cooperative collection-development and collection-management strategies with other libraries, both locally and nationally, especially within the Boston Library Consortium (BLC).
• Cultivates a personal research agenda and service portfolio.
• Engages in and contributes to the profession with scholarship, creative activity, and service related to professional and scholarly interests through publications, presentations, and committee work at local, state, regional, and national levels.

Required Qualifications:

• A master’s degree (M.L.S., M.S., or M.A. in Library or Information Science, or other variant) from a program accredited by the American Library Association or the equivalent professional credential in librarianship.
• A record of scholarship and publications (and/or portfolio of creative activity) consistent with the expectations for library associate or library full faculty at the University of Vermont and of a quantity and quality that positions the candidate as an skilled and savvy mentor for faculty in their own scholarship.
• At least five years’ professional experience in an academic library, with three or more years at a supervisory level.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing collaborative and collegial relationships between library departments and functions.
• Demonstrated experience of leadership, management, and mentoring.
• Experience in project management.
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively with colleagues, faculty and staff.
• Fluency in developments in the scholarly publishing landscape, especially in open-access publishing and efforts to make collections accessible to everyone.
• Excellent oral, written, listening and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with library technology, including systems similar to those employed at UVM (e.g., Alma, Libnova, etc.).
• Demonstrated commitment to UVM’s Our Common Ground values and to the ALA core values of librarianship.

Desired (Non-Essential) Qualifications:

• Familiarity with medical and health sciences librarianship and/or special collections.
• Experience working with staff and/or faculty librarians in a union environment.
• Experience in contract negotiation and/or in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with vendors, consortia and publishers.

We seek candidates who will embrace UVM’s Our Common Ground, the ACRL Diversity Standards, and fundamental principles of intellectual freedom embodied in UVM’s statement on Academic Freedom, the ACRL Statement on Academic Freedom, and the AAUP Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure. The Libraries are committed to building collections that serve an increasingly diverse curriculum, to affirming all persons and supporting all intellectually rigorous thought and traditions, to building the most diverse recruitment pools possible, to creating mentorship opportunities for colleagues, and to making our services and spaces accessible and welcoming to all.