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Director of Information Technology --  University of California at
Irvine
-- California
 
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The University of California, Irvine Libraries are seeking a dynamic
leader to join an enthusiastic staff in building a research library of
excellence for a young and rapidly-growing university ranked nationally
in
the top universities. The Director of Information Technology will work
in a
collaborative environment of evolving institutional expectations and
manage
growth and change to assure that high quality information technology
systems and services continue to support the needs of the Libraries
staff
and client community.The successful candidate will play a critical role
in
providing innovative and responsive leadership in the strategic
planning,
development, implementation, management and coordination of information
technologies across the Libraries. As a member of the Technical Services
Management Group, chair of the Information Technologies Management
Committee, and member of Library council, the incumbent participates in
library-wide planning and policy making, and leads collaborative efforts
to establish and attain strategic goals to meet the information
technology
(IT) needs of the Libraries' staff and patrons.Reporting to the
Associate
University Librarian for Technical Services, the Information Technology
Department supports the infrastructure, systems administration, network
and desktop, web presence and digital project needs of the three UCI
Libraries, servicing 273 library staff and the University user
community.
The Department comprises the Director and 12 staff positions. The salary
will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.The UCI
Libraries,
comprising the Langson Library, the Science Library and the Grunigen
Medical Library, are committed to innovation and excellence and are in a
major period of growth and change. The library collection consists of
over
2.6 million volumes and over 53,000 current serial titles and an
aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. The University
of
California, Irvine, is nestled in over 1,500 acres of coastal foothills,
five miles from the Pacific Ocean, between San Diego and Los Angeles.
UCI
is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with
more
than 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,400 faculty
members. Student enrollment is planned to reach 32,000 by 2014
accompanied
by a proportional growth in faculty and staff. Founded in 1965, UCI has
had
an extraordinarily rapid rise to distinction in its first forty years,
including membership in the Association of American Universities,
ranking
twelfth among the nation's best public universities by U.S. News and
World
Report (also among the top fifty research universities), and three Nobel
prizes in the last ten years. The full position description with
instructions on how to apply are listed on the UCI Libraries Web site at
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/jobs/libvac.html. Applications received
by January 15, 2008 will receive first consideration, but applications
will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. The
University
of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to
excellence through diversity.

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