[LIBJOBS] USA-Rock Hill, SC-Library Development, Head of Technical Services

STATEMENT OF ROLE:

This is a broad-based and imaginative role.  The Library Development/Head of Technical Services is bound only by imagination and innovation of the individual as we enter a new era of library services.  We seek an individual who will engage students in learning via the efficient and innovative delivery of library services.

This individual has major responsibility of the library’s overall grant-writing and point-person with the Dean of Library Services to the Winthrop Office of Development. 

The Library Development/Head of Technical Services is also responsible for working collaboratively with faculty to create information literacy awareness among all our students.  Other standard library management of the area is required: coordinates the work of the department’s areas Acquisitions, Cataloging, and Serials/Binding/Preservation; articulates a new vision for the development of technical services; works to motivate and empower colleagues and staff.  Serves on the Dean’s senior management team.

FUNCTIONS:

A. General Administration

1. Writes library-wide or library specific grants for both long and short-term library growth.
2. Works with the Winthrop Office of Development on fund-raising activities, including the Friends of Dacus Library.
3. Empowers student learning and engagement through the process of library materials.
4. Works collaboratively with faculty to augment campus-wide information literacy.
5. Works innovatively with public services to improve overall delivery of library services.
6. Assesses the work of technical services in accordance with SACS standards, and prepares accreditation reports as required.
7. Participates in the formulation of both short and long range library policies as a member of the Library’s senior management team.
8. Leads the planning process within the unit but with an eye to the future; leads and manages the process of evaluating and improving workflow efficiency.
9. Supervises the creation and maintenance of the Library’s records concerning the purchasing and processing of resources for the Library’s collections.
10. Identifies special project needs in conjunction with public services. Plans (including writing
    vendor specifications), supervises and evaluates projects.
11. Documents technical services’ policies and relationships both in and out of the library.
12. Teaches information literacy classes as needed
13. Acts as a communication channel between department staff and library administration.
14. Represents the Dean in his absence as needed.

B. Personnel Administration

1. Seeks new ways of delivering services with existing staff but configuring those staff in a new and more dynamic way to meet the demands of 21st Century librarianship.
2. Transforms the unit to think deliberatively about student engagement and learning.
3. Directly supervises technical services including evaluation of library faculty and staff based upon its ability to empower student engagement and student learning.

C. Proficiencies

1. Maintains a familiarity with the service needs of student leaning and engagement via the delivery of materials through the processes of this unit.
2. Maintains a working knowledge regarding the Library’s integrated library management system (ILS), Innovative Interfaces, and quality control of same.
3. Maintains a functional knowledge of technical services work-flow and routines to the extent of being able to participate in the daily operations as necessary.
4. Maintains a functional knowledge of University and State purchasing and accounting
   regulations, particularly in regard to the acquisition of library resources.
5. Participates in university and professional activities including conducting research/ studies/ surveys, serves on University and Library committees as needed, stays abreast of national trends and issues related to the delivery of library materials via this processing unit.

 

 

Cordially,

 

MYHerring

Dean of Library Services