THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
Position
Vacancy
HEAD, DIGITAL LIBRARY
SERVICES
Position
Description: This position serves as department head for
Digital Library Services (DLS), a new unit in the University of Iowa Libraries that provides a variety of
services to the library and the campus community in support of digital
initiatives. Reporting to the Director of Library Information Technologies, the
head of DLS provides leadership, coordination, and advice for digital activities
in the Libraries and, in collaboration with the campus community, for the
University as a whole, and works closely with collection management,
preservation, technical services, and other library staff in developing and
expanding digital activities. The head of DLS also works closely with academic
units across the University to identify, convert, preserve, and share digital
objects; identifies assets in need of services, develops relationships with
those responsible for managing such assets, and shares expertise about archiving
and metadata with the campus; and seeks opportunities for statewide, national,
and international partnerships.
The
incumbent shapes and implements the department’s strategic plan and manages
digital library projects through their lifecycle, from identifying potential
projects that meet stated selection criteria to designing timelines and
implementation plans to maintaining collections after projects are completed.
The head of DLS participates in the larger digital library community by actively
exploring questions related to digital repositories, and works to share that
knowledge through professional service, presentations, publications, and other
means.
Qualifications:
Required:
- An ALA-accredited masters degree in
library or information science;
- Three or more years of professional
library experience;
- Demonstrated planning and project
management skills;
- Demonstrated understanding of emerging
standards in digital library systems in an academic
setting;
- Familiarity with best practices for
digitization, metadata, and archival storage
- Excellent written and oral communication
skills;
- Ability to work in a complex
organization, build and nurture a cross functional team, and collaborate with
a wide variety of partners;
- Ability to work well with faculty and
other academic staff; and
- Demonstrated involvement in related
professional development activities, such as committee work (at the library,
university, state, regional, or national level), research, publication,
teaching, and/or continuing education.
Desired:
- Two or more years of growing
responsibility and accomplishment in digitization or digital repository
development;
- Experience with the creation and capture
of a wide variety of digital formats;
- Familiarity with digital asset management
tools such as DigiTool and/or CONTENTdm;
- Supervisory experience;
and
- General understanding of the mission and
functions of a research library and the information needs of academic
users.
Additional Expectations of the
Position:
- Civil and Respectful
Interactions:
- Demonstrates respect for all members of
the University community in the course of performing one’s duties and in
response to administrators, supervisors, coworkers, and
customers.
- Establishes and maintains standards of
collaborative interaction among peers and employees that is characterized by
respect, honesty and service; assures that all unit members are held to
similar standards and ethics.
- Diversity and
Inclusion:
- Welcomes the richness of talent from a
diverse workforce and recognizes that diversity brings stimulation,
challenge, and energy that contribute to a productive and effective
workplace.
- Manages the talents, strengths and
behaviors of each individual in a diverse work group, while providing each
employee with the opportunity to contribute to the goals of the unit. Works
to assure that all employees are respected and treated in a manner
consistent with University policies in regard to equal employment
opportunity and diversity.
- Leadership
Accountability:
- Represents the interests of the
University and of unit leadership in the use of resources to meet service
and productivity demands within unit goals and budgets; strives to promote
continual process and quality improvement.
- Inspires and motivates others to high
performance by exercising strong stewardship of University resources,
setting expectations, measuring success through individual performance
evaluations, and driving organizational results.
- Learning and
Professional Development:
- Seeks opportunities to enhance one’s
own professional knowledge, skills, and abilities as they relate to one’s
current position and/or to prepare for potential future roles and overall
career development.
- Identifies opportunities for and
creates development plans that encourage employees to attend to the growth
of their personal and professional capacity; engages self and staff in
collective reflection of the University’s greater role in
society.
Salary and appointment: Appointment will be made at the Librarian II/III level with a salary range of $43,000 to $55,000. The University of Iowa offers an attractive package of
benefits including 24 days of paid
vacation per year, TIAA/CREF retirement, and a flexible selection of
medical, life, and dental insurance, childcare credit, and additional options.
The University of Iowa
Libraries: The
University of
Iowa library system consists of the Main Library, the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences and 10 branch libraries
(Art, Music, Business, and the
sciences). With more than 4 million
volumes, the Libraries
ranks 30 out of 113 among the
Association of Research Libraries for
size of collections. InfoHawk, the Libraries’
integrated online system, uses
ExLibris’ Aleph 500 software. The
Libraries has been innovative in the development of
services related to digital technologies with the creation of such units as the Information Arcade and Information Commons. The University
Libraries is an active member of the Online Computer
Library Center (OCLC), the Committee
on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL), the Association of Research
Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI), and the ARL SPARC Project. The Libraries
provides a program of support for
professional development
activities and its
staff members are actively engaged in national cooperative
efforts.
The University and Iowa
City: A major research
and teaching institution, the
University of Iowa offers internationally recognized programs in a diverse
array of academic, medical, and artistic disciplines, from otolaryngology to fiction writing, printmaking to space science, hydraulic engineering to dance. The
University consists of a
faculty of 2000 and a permanent staff
of 15,000 serving 29,000
students, close to 10,000 of whom
are registered in graduate and
professional degree programs.
Approximately 8% of the University’s workforce is minority faculty and staff, 9% of the student body
are members of minority groups, and
7% are international
students.
Iowa
City is a community of some 63,000 people
with excellent educational, recreational, and cultural advantages and is consistently cited in the national media as
a city with an excellent quality of life. The community is growing in
its diversity; within the Iowa City Community School
District, 12% of the students are
African American, 7.5% are Asian
American, 6% are Latino, and .5%
are Native American. The Latino
population is increasing at a rate of .4% per year. The city is readily accessible
via interstate highways and a major airport only 30 minutes away.
Application
Procedure: To apply for this position, please visit the
University of
Iowa Jobs@UIOWA website at
http://jobs.uiowa.edu. To help
facilitate your application
process, note the requisition number
-- 53098. Applications must be received by October 6, 2006.
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IS AN EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
EMPLOYER. WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO
APPLY.
For more information about the University of Iowa Libraries, please
see
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/
For more information about the University of Iowa, please
see
http://www.uiowa.edu/