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You'll find a special subscription offer at http://chronicle.com/4free/?ej _________________________________________________________________ - The text of the job listing is below - Library Director -- University of Puget Sound -- Washington LIBRARY DIRECTOR The University of Puget Sound invites nominations and applications for the position of Library Director. Located in Tacoma, Washington, Puget Sound is an independent national undergraduate liberal arts institution with select graduate programs in education and the health sciences. With an enrollment of 2,600 students from 47 states and 13 countries, Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington. Established in 1888, the University's 11:1 student-faculty ratio provides students with personal attention from over 200 faculty members who have a strong commitment to teaching. Our client seeks a leader who is passionate about undergraduate higher education, understands the liberal arts college environment, enjoys working with faculty, and energetically promotes the role of the library in campus life and the educational process. As chief administrative and fiscal officer for the library, the Library Director provides leadership and administrative guidance in planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating all library services and functions and in integrating them with the instructional programs of the university. This individual will assume leadership of library programs and sustain the record of creative development established during the past decade.We seek candidates who have a proven track record in setting a collaborative tone and communicating well in order to build community within the library and with faculty, students, and colleagues. An experienced and imaginative professional who has a clear vision of emerging library issues and the capacity to lead organizational change when needed, the Director will help the campus continue to strike a balance between the print and digital library worlds and feel excitement about the library's role in building digital information services for the campus. The Library Director should be capable of building especially strong working relationships with Information Services and should recognize that such working relationships are essential for the effective functioning of each area.Collins Memorial Library houses collections of over 500,000 print volumes and maintains direct electronic access to some 35,000 titles. The University of Puget Sound also holds membership in the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a library consortium of public and private institutions of higher education in the Northwest providing the Summit digital union catalog as well as Orbis Cascade borrowing, database licensing, and courier services. Collins Library has an annual budget of over $2.8 million and a staff of 7 librarians and 16 full and part-time paraprofessionals, as well as approximately 85 student workers. The library has been recently renovated (2000, $6.4m) and includes a highly popular Information Commons in close proximity to spacious reading rooms. Collins Library supports evolving innovative programs in reference service, information literacy, and digital information management, and participates as a member of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education.A Master's degree in Library Science and/or Information Science from an ALA-accredited program is required. Additional advanced degree in an appropriate field is preferred. The ideal candidate will have substantial professional experience, including at least five years in an academic library setting with responsibilities at the department head level or above. Significant experience in an academic environment, particularly with a liberal arts institution, is highly preferred.Qualified and interested candidates should submit their resumes to the executive search firm: Gary Kaplan & Associates, Michelle Bonoan, Principal ([log in to unmask]), or Naree Viner, Principal ([log in to unmask]).The University of Puget Sound does not discriminate in education or employment on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.The University of Puget Sound is committed to an environment that welcomes and supports diversity. We seek diversity of identity, thought, perspective, and background in our students, faculty, and staff. Please view the University Diversity Statement at http://www.ups.edu/x634.xml. _________________________________________________________________ Visit Chronicle Careers at http://chronicle.com/jobs/ _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2007 by The Chronicle of Higher Education