Japanese Studies Librarian
Department: Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Rank and Salary: Assistant/Associate Librarian ($59,057 – $75,100)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline is February 20, 2014.
Description of Institution and Library
One of ten University of California campuses, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is located in Westwood Village, approximately five miles from the Pacific Ocean near Santa Monica. Comprised of the College of Letters and Science and 11 professional schools, the 419-acre campus features 163 buildings. UCLA has more than 4,000 faculty and academic staff and approximately 26,000 employees overall. Founded in 1919, UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and has more than 28,000 undergraduates and 12,000 graduate students. Academic excellence, faculty distinction, and a comprehensive curriculum are hallmarks of UCLA, which is a member of the Association of American Universities. Among the faculty are fourteen Nobel Laureates, twelve Rhodes Scholars, ten National Medal of Science winners, a Fields Medal Winner, eleven MacArthur Grant winners, and seventy-eight Guggenheim Fellows. UCLA is California’s largest university and is a model for public institutions of higher education. As the seventh largest employer in the region, UCLA generates almost $14 in economic activity for every $1 state taxpayers invest in UCLA and generates an annual $11.9 billion economic impact for the state of California.
Consistently ranked among the top 10 academic research libraries in North America, the UCLA Library is comprised of 10 major libraries and 11 library wide departments including the Southern Regional Library Facility, the remote storage facility for the southern UC campuses, all of which report to the University Librarian. In addition, there are 12 affiliated library units located on the campus. There are approximately 105 librarians on the campus, and the UCLA Library has a staff of approximately 300, and approximately 400 – 500 student employees. The Library has an organizational structure that includes the use of teams in conjunction with departments and units. The library collection consists of more than 9 million volumes and more than 78,000 current serial titles and an aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. The Library’s annual budget is in excess of $44 million; more than $10 million supports the acquisition of print and digital material, and the library is part of the California Digital Library. The UCLA Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).
As a partner in creating and disseminating knowledge, the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library (EAL) supports world-class research and instruction for UCLA’s East Asian Studies program. The library houses over 744,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, which includes books, microforms, newspapers and serials, in the humanities and social sciences. The EAL currently receives over 2,000 serial titles and has access to 48 licensed databases online. The East Asian collection is strong in Chinese archaeology, religion (especially Buddhism), folklore, fine arts, pre-modern history and classical literature. The Library’s Japanese collection, with over 278,958 items, is strong in Buddhism, fine arts, literature, history, and folklore, while growing in modern intellectual history and cultural studies. In recent years, through collaboration with the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, the Library was able to acquire a number of notable collections, including the purchase of the Prange Collection (a microform set that reproduces 13,783 magazines and 18,047 newspapers published in Japan between 1945 and 1949); the donation of over 8,000 volumes from the Takabatake Collection from Japan; a donation of rare 1950 wire recordings of Japanese popular music; and the acquisition of the Hashikura collection.
The UCLA East Asian Library is among the top ten East Asian academic research libraries in North America. It currently has a staff of 3 FTE librarians, 3.75 FTE library assistants, and a number of student assistants.
Position Duties
The individual appointed to this position will provide academic support to faculty and students who are engaged in research, teaching, and learning in Japanese Studies. The incumbent will collaborate with other EAL librarians and staff as well as with the UCLA Library community at large to support the information needs of our primary constituents. Reporting to the Head of the EAL, the successful candidate will assume the following responsibilities:
Engagement and Service: Engage with faculty and students to have a thorough understanding of their teaching, learning, and research needs; become embedded in methodology and bibliography classes to offer services where teaching takes place; keep abreast of program changes and translate faculty and student needs into collection development policies and actions; collaborate with faculty to integrate information literacy skills into the curriculum; develop and deliver library instruction to support teaching, learning, and research; collaborate with faculty and librarians in the design, implementation, and maintenance of online tools and services that meet the needs of both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research communities; collaborate with faculty, librarians, and students to develop digital projects, research initiatives, programs, and exhibitions.
Collection Development and Management: Provide leadership for collection development and management of the Japanese studies collection; establish priorities for the collection and periodically review and assess the collections’ needs; stay abreast of scholarship in the field and develop collections that support teaching, learning, and research; pay particular attention to new areas of development for the Terasaki Center and for the field in general; seek grants and other development opportunities to acquire collections; review original Japanese language cataloging and authority records.
Outreach and Collaboration: Seek opportunities to engage with local community organizations to promote Japanese collections held at the UCLA Library; identify grant opportunities and seek funding to support EAL community-centered initiatives and projects; reach out to the local community and organizations within Los Angeles to develop special collections that support teaching and research needs.
Professional engagement: Represent the UCLA Library in regional, national, and international professional organizations of relevance to Japanese or East Asian studies; participate in conferences and classes to build additional skills and update knowledge of changing technologies and developments in the field of Japanese studies librarianship; participate in regional, national, and international consortial collaborations.
Required Qualifications
• ALA-accredited Master’s Degree in Library and Information Sciences OR significant graduate-level coursework toward such a degree OR equivalent education and experience (subject expertise combined with professional library education and/or experience).
• Minimum three years’ experience working in an academic or research library.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to user-centered library services.
• Demonstrated evidence of initiative and flexibility.
• Excellent organizational, time, and project management skills.
• Capacity to thrive in the exciting, ambiguous, future-oriented environment of a world-class research institution and to respond effectively to changing needs and priorities.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional development and service through strong interest in local or national committee work, research and publication.
• Ability to meet the University of California criteria for advancement and promotion of librarians.
• Ability to work with faculty, students, and staff from diverse cultural backgrounds in a dynamic and complex environment within a large organization.
• A thorough understanding of research and teaching needs.
• A thorough understanding of publication trends and characteristics in the field, particularly scholarly publications in the arts, humanities and socials sciences.
• Fluency in Japanese.
Desired Qualifications
• Advanced degree in a humanities or social sciences discipline, with an emphasis on East Asian or Japanese studies, or equivalent knowledge in a related field of study combined with library experience.
• Record of teaching, scholarship, and active leadership in professional organizations.
• Experience performing reference, instruction, and collection development in related subjects in an academic or research library.
• Experience creating subject or course guides.
• Knowledge of one or more East Asian language, such as Chinese or Korean.
• Experience assessing, evaluating, and negotiating licenses for digital resources in East Asian studies.
• Experience collaborating with academic or research institutions in Japan for material or staff exchange.
• Experience cataloging Japanese materials.
General Information
Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. Librarians at UCLA are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance provided.
Appointees to the librarian series at UC shall have professional backgrounds that demonstrate a high degree of creativity, teamwork, and flexibility. Such background will normally include a professional degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science graduate program. In addition to professional competence and quality of service within the library in the primary job, advancement in the librarian series requires professional involvement and contributions outside of the library, and/or university and community service, and/or scholarly activities. Candidates must show evidence or promise of such contributions.
Candidates should apply by February 20, 2014 to be considered for this position. UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities. UCLA seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA-compliant employer. Under federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to work in the United States as established by providing documents specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employment is contingent upon completion of satisfactory background investigation.
To apply: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF00144.
Visit the UCLA Library Employment Opportunities Website at http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/employment-human-resources.
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