[Metadatalibrarians] Job Posting: Head of Collection Management Services, San Francisco State University

[Kendra Van Cleave]

The J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University offers an
exciting opportunity for a tenure-track Head of Collection Management
Services position at the rank of Senior Assistant or Associate Librarian
beginning August 2019.

We seek a colleague who will provide leadership, vision, and support to the
library’s Collection Management Services division. The successful candidate
will oversee the division’s administrative functions, including
coordinating budget, personnel, and equipment requests; maintaining
division policies, procedures, and workflows; and providing lead work
direction to staff.

We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute,
through their research, primary responsibilities, and/or service, through
diversity, to the excellence of the academic community.

The J. Paul Leonard Library is a busy, teaching-oriented institution
supporting a community of 30,000 students as well as faculty and staff. The
collections include more than one million items in all formats, including
an extensive collection of online databases and full-text resources.

Librarians have full faculty status and are expected to meet faculty
requirements for tenure and promotion. The library faculty is committed to
providing mentoring and support to tenure track colleagues. The successful
candidate will play a key role in helping to shape the future of the
library. Information about the J. Paul Leonard Library is available at:
http://www.library.sfsu.edu

The mission of San Francisco State University is to create and maintain an
environment for learning that promotes respect for and appreciation of
scholarship, freedom, human diversity, and the cultural mosaic of the City
of San Francisco and the Bay Area; to promote excellence in instruction and
intellectual accomplishment; and to provide broadly accessible higher
education for residents of the region and state, as well as the nation and
world. To fulfill its mission, the University is committed to the following
goals:

●Attracting, retaining, and graduating a highly diverse student body
●Providing disciplinary and interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional
education that is academically rigorous and intellectually challenging
●Providing curricula that reflect all dimensions of human diversity, and
that encourage critical thinking and a commitment to social justice
●Recruiting, retaining, and supporting a diverse faculty whose teaching
demonstrates an active engagement with their individual fields of study and
whose creative and scholarly work is an extension of the classroom,
laboratory, or studio
●Employing a staff and administration reflecting the diversity of our
student community and the values of the campus;
●Fostering a collegial and cooperative intellectual environment that
includes recognition and appreciation of differing viewpoints and promotes
academic freedom within the University community; and
●Serving the communities with which its students and faculty are engaged.

Responsibilities:

The Head of Collection Management Services provides progressive leadership
and direction to the library collection management services division. The
Head of Collection Management Services oversees and provides vision and
leadership for division activities, including acquisition, cataloging and
processing materials in all formats; managing the collections budget;
developing division policies and procedures; audit reporting; and
coordinating and providing collection reports and statistics to the
library, the university, and the CSU. In addition, library faculty members
are expected to engage in scholarship and service to the university and the
profession. Detailed position description is available at
http://library.sfsu.edu/head-collection-management-services-0

Qualifications:

Required-
●ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or
equivalent.
●Demonstrated leadership experience, such as implementing and initiating
projects to improve library services, programs, processes, etc.
●Demonstrated experience with and extensive knowledge of some aspect of
technical services (e.g., cataloging and/or acquisitions)
●Record of working and communicating effectively with colleagues and
students

Preferred-

●Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to
carry out complex projects, implement programs and resolve problems in a
rapidly changing environment.
•Demonstrated knowledge of cataloging and metadata standards, authority
work, quality control for library collections, and emerging library
technologies and trends with a commitment to continuous learning.
●Experience providing lead work direction to library staff and leading
projects and teams, including strong problem-solving and project management
skills.
●Experience with managing collections budgets and providing budgetary
oversight.
●Evidence of flexibility, innovative thinking, creativity and initiative.
●Ability to work independently and as a member or leader of a team.
●Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collegially with a diverse
population of students, faculty, and staff; incorporate inclusion,
diversity, and educational equity into primary assignment, scholarship,
and/or service responsibilities; contribute to a supportive, and
collaborative work environment; and experience working closely with
students from historically underrepresented communities.

Rank and Salary:

Senior Assistant or Associate Librarian. Salary commensurate with
qualifications and experience. The California State University (CSU)
provides generous health, retirement, and other benefits.

Application:

Submit letter of intent/interest, a current CV, a statement on how your
philosophy of librarianship and/or your scholarship align with the
commitment of the J. Paul Leonard Library to foster an inclusive and
diverse academic community, and the names and contact information of three
references. Letters of recommendation upon request at a later date.

For full consideration, submit all materials to Elizabeth Detrich,
Personnel Coordinator: edetrich at sfsu.edu, 415-338-3641. Application review
begins April 22, 2019 and continues until filled.

San Francisco State is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not
discriminate against persons on the basis of race, religion, color,
ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity,
gender expression, marital status, medical condition, National origin, sex,
sexual orientation, covered veteran status, or any other protected status.
Reasonable accommodations will be provided for qualified applicants with
disabilities who self-disclose by contacting the Senior Human Resources
Manager.

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Kendra Van Cleave
Acting Library Department Chair/Associate Librarian
J. Paul Leonard Library
San Francisco State University