Head of Curators

Head of Curators

The Head of Curators for Library Special Collections (LSC) leads and oversees a curatorial team focused on building research resources collaboratively, expanding collection-building practices beyond the canon, supporting UCLA’s teaching, learning and research mission, and developing and implementing proactive approaches that support long-term ethical stewardship.

Position Duties

• Works closely with Library Development to identify and steward donors, collections, and endowed gift funds.
• Represents LSC to campus and external audiences in relation to curatorial responsibilities.
• Works collaboratively with colleagues in LSC and across the library to build rare and unique collections and to actively promote their use by students, faculty and community members.
• Disseminates and promotes use of rare and unique collections at the UCLA Library via social media, blogs, community engagement, virtual and physical exhibitions, lectures, workshops, research guides, and symposia.
• Teaches and mentors curators on building and maintaining beneficial relationships with Library Development.
• Provides curricular consultations and instruction, and collaborates on instruction development and implementation with faculty and library colleagues to incorporate primary source instruction and LSC materials into curriculum.
• Provides specialized reference services for LSC materials in collaboration with the Public Services, Outreach, and Community Engagement Unit.
• Collaborates proactively with colleagues across the library in re-appraising and supporting stewardship of archival and bibliographic materials in LSC’s historical collecting areas.
• Works collaboratively with colleagues in the Collections Management Unit to support the holistic stewardship of existing and future collections.

Qualifications

• Professional degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science graduate program.
• Evidence or promise of professional involvement and contributions outside of the library, and/or university and community service, and/or scholarly activities.