UC Davis - Head Blaisdell Medical Library - Full Time

Head, Blaisdell Medical Library

University Library of the University of California, Davis

Salary: Associate Librarian to Librarian ($60,684 - $93,083)

http://lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/jobs/head-bml.php

Position Overview

The University Library of the University of California, Davis, seeks an energetic, innovative, collaborative, and user-focused leader with sufficient authority to represent the Library's mission and vision and work closely with faculty, students, staff, and institutional stakeholders in a highly interdisciplinary academic health and life sciences community. The Library is embarking on programs supporting institutional emphases in biomedical informatics, clinical and translational sciences, and data sciences and data services that build upon active and dynamic suites of existing initiatives. The Head of the Blaisdell Medical Library (BML) is responsible for providing vision, leadership, and management within BML and manages library services and resources in support of student learning, academic programs, and faculty teaching and research. S/he must be able to work effectively with faculty, administrators, and staff to develop a shared vision for the library and align library services with the University Library's and UC Davis Health System's strategic plans.

Position Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Head of the Research Services Department, the Head of BML provides leadership and vision for academic and non-academic library personnel meeting the research, teaching, patient care, and community engagement missions of UC Davis faculty, staff, and students in multiple healthcare-related academic programs and the medical center in Sacramento. Major activities conducted by the librarians include research support and educational services; collection development and management for undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and clinical research levels; and outreach covering a variety of relevant topics, including Library resources and services, literature searching, systematic reviews, and access to research data and scholarship. Outreach activities are directed at faculty, researchers, staff, and students generally and to targeted populations such as new faculty and research centers, such as the Center for Healthcare Policy, Clinical and Translational Sciences Center, and Center for Health and Technology.
• The Head promotes faculty and student liaison activities; both UC Davis and University of California-wide cooperative initiatives, services, and collections; and collaborates with other managers within the University Library to deliver timely and effective services and to develop resource collection to meet the dynamic growth of the campus research and teaching needs.
• As the operational head of the Blaisdell Medical Library, the incumbent supervises academic and non-academic personnel. Administrative duties include, but are not limited to, hiring and managing personnel, training and development, preparing letters of evaluation, and making work assignments; formulating policies and procedures; developing appropriate programs and services; overseeing equipment, software, and facilities; monitoring budget expenditures; maintaining statistics and preparing annual reports; and interpreting library and university policies and procedures.
• The Head of BML contributes to strategic and other long- and short-term planning for Library's services, programs, and projects. S/he guides personnel in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating ongoing services and special projects. The Head of BML develops, directs, and evaluates BML's assessment, education, planning, and organizational excellence activities, relating them to the University Library's and those of UC Davis and its Health System. S/he will develop, manage, and evaluate assessment activities, including the generation and interpretation of data to inform decisions, to demonstrate the Blaisdell Medical Library's value to the UC Davis community and beyond.
• Required Qualifications
• Graduate degree in library science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent
• Five or more years of experience exercising progressively more demanding management and supervisory skills and abilities in health sciences librarianship OR five or more years of experience and demonstrated achievement in outreach, research support, or educational services in an academic, clinical, or research library
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively with multiple constituencies in a complex and rapidly changing, matrix-based environment; communicating, setting goals, managing time, promoting teamwork, and meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated familiarity with health science information resources and collection management activities in an academic, clinical, or research library
• Demonstrated understanding of library support of curricula across the range of health sciences educational programs (including some or all of undergraduate and graduate medical education, nursing education, continuing medical and nursing education, etc.)
• Demonstrated understanding of the basic and clinical sciences research processes with emphasis on biomedical informatics and data management
• Demonstrated effective use of analytical, problem-solving, and communications skills
• Knowledge of assessment and evaluation theories and practices
• Evidence of flexibility and initiative when working within a fast-paced, changing environment
• Preferred Qualifications
• Undergraduate or higher degree in the health or life sciences OR two years working experience as a science or health science librarian
• Demonstrated knowledge and use of and successful experimentation with technologies to deliver information services to basic and clinical sciences clientele and the interdisciplinary healthcare team
• Successful experience in developing and managing relevant collections in an academic library
• Knowledge of scholarly communications issues, tools, and resources
• Demonstrated ability to lead and to motivate librarians and other library personnel
• Demonstrated strong commitment to user services and improving the user experience
• Strong record of ongoing and sustained professional engagement, such as service in library organizations, presentations at conferences, and peer-reviewed publication

Benefits

Benefits: UC is one of the largest employers in California, and offers outstanding health and retirement benefits to its employees and their families. Librarians are academic appointees and earn 24 days of vacation and 12 days of sick leave per year. In addition, there are 13 university holidays