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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

[LIBJOBS] Institutional Repository Librarian - San Marcos, CA, USA

California State University San Marcos, Institutional Repository Librarian Position
The Library seeks an innovative leader with strong people skills to plan, develop, implement, grow, and maintain an institutional repository at California State University San Marcos. The library is committed to organizing, preserving, and presenting digital content on a campus with a dynamic research and creative activity environment. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with university faculty, colleagues in the library, and Instructional & Information Technology (IITS) to provide expertise and leadership in developing a successful institutional repository strategy.

Project management responsibilities include leading the planning, development and supervision of the repository, providing services including drafting policies and procedures, user support and training, conducting user-centered evaluations, and on-going program and policy analysis. Liaison/outreach responsibilities include advocating and promoting use of the library’s institutional repository, seeking out contributors, and serving as spokesperson to publicize the institutional repository’s benefits and uses. Content management responsibilities include defining and managing the digital collections, working collaboratively with IITS on system and academic technology issues, and collaborating with library staff on metadata schemes appropriate for digital information. The successful candidate will also provide vision and direction for a growing suite of services supporting scholarship and will maintain a strong level of competence in scholarly communication issues including open-access initiatives, intellectual property, data curation, and new forms of publication and research/creative activities.
The library seeks an energetic and creative librarian with the potential to make significant contributions to our library, the campus, and the profession. Library faculty work in a participative and collaborative organization, within a faculty tenure and promotion system that emphasizes research and publication as well as service to the university and the profession.
 This is a twelve-month, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Senior Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian. Minimum salary of $57,084 for Assistant or $65,628 for Associate Librarian and excellent benefits package.  Salary and rank are dependent on qualifications and experience. Review of applications begins March 18. For a complete description of the position and application procedures go to http://www.csusm.edu/facultyopportunities <http://www.csusm.edu/facultyopportunities>  
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California State University San Marcos is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer strongly committed to equity and diversity and seeks a broad spectrum of candidates in terms of race, sexual orientation and identity, gender, age, and disability or veteran's status.  The university is particularly interested in candidates who have experience working with students from diverse backgrounds and a demonstrated commitment to improving access to higher education for under-represented groups.
 CSUSM has been designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and was recently named one of the top 32 Colleges most friendly to junior faculty by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.

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