Los Angeles - UCLA - Assistant Head of Resource Acquisitions & Metadata Services for Acquisitions

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF05186

Closing Date
Apply by Thursday, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Salary
$68,084 - $101,533

Description
The UCLA Library seeks a dynamic, knowledgeable, user-focused, and collaborative leader to direct on-going services and shape the future of acquisitions and management of print and electronic resources for the UCLA Library. The Assistant Head of Acquisitions will join the Library during an exciting period of transformation, as we put our strategic plan into action, explore how the acquisitions function can support open access goals, and investigate how the University of California consortia of libraries might implement a systemwide Integrated Library Systems (ILS).

Position Duties
Under the general direction of the Head of Resource Acquisitions & Metadata Services, the Assistant Head of Acquisitions collaborates on strategic vision, leadership, and management of all aspects of the UCLA Library’s acquisitions and shared print services. The Assistant Head leads one of the acquisitions teams and supervises at least one other team leader.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Serves as supervisor of staff employees, including hiring, training, evaluating, mentoring, and developing acquisitions competencies for applicable department staff
• Holds direct responsibility for operations, workflows, and special projects involving ordering, payment, receipt, processing, and access to information resources of all types
• Provides leadership, guidance, and administrative oversight, ensuring compliance with local policy and procedure and professional best practices
• Organizes efforts to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of policies, procedures and workflow for selection, acquisition, processing, bibliographic control, shared print programs, and ensures that workflows are coordinated with other units to ensure effective operations and productivity
• Develops, assesses, and improves purchasing plans, procedures, and relationships with library vendors and shared print collaborators, and provides leadership for the management of established approval plans, Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Programs, and the investigation and evaluation of new acquisitions models
• Fosters effective working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and library partners, and facilitates communication with other units, departments and colleagues, including other technical services staff, Collection Strategies Librarian, and subject specialists and liaisons
• Coordinates UCLA acquisitions activities with the significant amounts of e-resources acquired by the California Digital Library through consortial agreements with other libraries in the University of California system and serves as liaison to CDL’s Journal Archiving Campaigns and to HathiTrust’s Shared Print Program
• Represents UCLA in the development and maintenance of the UC Systemwide Integrated Library System (SILS) in the area of acquisitions
• Participates in the responsible stewardship of the collections budget; develops and enforces responsible fiscal practices; creates, maintains and develops acquisition analysis reports to support and inform collection development and budgetary decisions; follows, understands and enforces University fiscal policies
• Assists with efforts to incorporate technological enhancements; establishes, tracks, and coordinates the various sets of shelf-ready specifications and data loading strategies used with Library materials
• Builds and maintains knowledge of e-resource licensing practices, sufficient to permit problem solving for those performing review and negotiation of licenses
• Explores and pursues means by which acquisitions operations can provide support to open access goals
• Identifies and advocates for, as well as participates in the development of standards needed to support acquisitions work
• Develops and monitors the department’s general assistance budget in support of acquisitions-related work
• Plans and monitors fulfillment of deposit quota in the remote storage facility
• In the absence of the department head, acts as a substitute as needed

Qualifications

•  ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library or Information Science OR significant graduate-level coursework toward such a degree OR equivalent education and experience (subject expertise combined with professional library education and/or experience)
• Experience in a management, supervisory or team leader position coaching, mentoring and/or managing personnel in a library or similar environment
• Experience in library acquisitions and licensing in an academic environment
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends and technologies related to library services
• Knowledge of core concepts of acquiring, receiving, cataloging, processing, database maintenance, integrated systems, library financial management, and vendor relations
• Knowledge of resource licensing concepts and language
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Applicants with any of the following qualifications or professional experiences are strongly encouraged to apply: Ability to negotiate licensing and other contractual terms for library acquisitions; familiarity with international and non-English language publishing and vendors; proficiency in at least one language other than English; training and/or experience in project management; experience in donor relations and stewardship.