Subject: [archives] Job Posting: Director, Irvin Dept of Rare Books and Special Collections

Position Announcement:


Director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries


The University of South Carolina Libraries seeks applications and nominations for an innovative, collaborative, and service- oriented professional to serve as the Director of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Reporting to the Dean of Libraries, the Director of the Irvin Department provides vision, leadership, and administration for the department, and participates in a wide range of duties including strategic planning, budgeting, staff oversight, public programming, fundraising, collection development, and research assistance and support.



Duties:
* Works with library faculty, staff, and patrons to establish goals and priorities for the Irvin Department and to encourage innovation consistent with its mission. 
* Maintains relationships with appropriate academic departments and programs within the University to assure that the Irvin Department’s collections, services, and facilities are aligned with the educational, research, and public service mission of the University of South Carolina.


* Plans for staffing, equipment, and space needs and manages resources to meet established departmental goals and priorities.
* Manages budgets and endowed funds for the Irvin Department and participates in the development of the department’s collections and its relationships with potential donors and sellers of materials.


* Fosters a collaborative work environment, encouraging partnerships across the University Libraries and campus community.
* Represents the Irvin Department and University Libraries in the academic community; with donors, collectors, and the general public; within the state and region; and within the library and/or archival professions.


* Successful candidates will bring to this position a record of staff development and team building; the capacity to understand and support scholarly research; the ability to manage a complex physical and virtual environment to deliver information services and preserve information; a willingness to seek out and obtain resources for the development of the Library; and the ability to balance support of the Library’s traditional collections and services with the development of new strategies to support scholarship, teaching, and learning. The ideal candidate will also have a national reputation and series of accomplishments at the forefront of academic, scholarly, and/or professional work in library and information science or the management of cultural heritage institutions. 



Required Qualifications:
* A graduate degree in English, history, library science or another academic discipline closely related to the collections, programs, and services of the Irvin Department. 
* Familiarity with the operation of special collections within a research library or public archives.


* Effective and efficient fiscal planning expertise, budget development, and implementation.
* Sound knowledge of the issues relating to primary research materials by historians, humanities scholars, and social scientists for research, teaching, and publication.


* A demonstrated commitment to working collaboratively with diverse groups of students, scholars, and artists.
* Outstanding leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills that foster an organizational culture of collegiality and excellence.


* Strong, demonstrated commitment to providing outstanding user services, outreach, and student engagement.
* Sound knowledge of library preservation and conservation issues and practices, including digitization practices.



SLED background check and credit check are required.

Preferred qualifications:
* Substantial experience working collaboratively with faculty and staff to plan and implement educational programs such as symposia, lectures, exhibitions, and scholarly conferences that promote special collections and their use by the academic community and the broader public.


* A combination of graduate degrees from two or more disciplines and/or a Ph.D. in a relevant subject area.
* A record of achievement in development, grant writing, collection solicitation, and fund raising.
* Demonstrated experience in the creation of digital library projects, digital learning objects, or other digital humanities 


research projects.

A strong record of active professional achievement including 
participation in professional associations and continuing 
contributions to the literature or body of knowledge related 
to libraries, archives, special collections, the history of 


the book, and/or a related scholarly discipline.

Awareness of, commitment to, and abilities in digital 
scholarship, copyright law, and open access.

The University of South Carolina, founded in 1801, enrolls 


approximately 21,000 undergraduate students and 6,500 graduate 
students on the Columbia campus. The University Libraries 
contain more than 3.5 million volumes, 1 million manuscripts, 
325,000 maps, and 944,000 government documents. The University 


Libraries are a member of the Association of Research Libraries, 
LYRASIS, OCLC, and the Center for Research Libraries. 

The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is 
housed in the newly-built Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections 


Library, a LEED Gold certified facility. The department is 
responsible for the care of more than 150,000 volumes and 
attendant archival collections, from its core collection of the 
antebellum South Carolina College Library to major research 


collections in: Milton, Robert Burns and Scottish Literature, 
Hume, Carlyle, Garibaldi, Darwin, natural history, nineteenth 
century American Literature (Emerson, Whitman, Margaret Fuller 
and Transcendentalism), World War I, children’s literature, 


astronomy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. The 
department houses the papers of Joseph Heller, John Jakes, 
James Ellroy, and Kaye Gibbons, among other substantial literary 
collections.

Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a 


full-time, 12-month, unclassified, tenure-track, faculty status 
position with the rank of Librarian. Benefits include medical, 
dental, state retirement or optional retirement plan.

Apply online at http://uscjobs.sc.edu (search by Requisition 003436). The cover letter may be addressed to Chair, Director of Irvin Department Search Committee. Three references submitted must include names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on June 10, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled.



Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. USC is an EOE.

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Subject: [archives] Records Manager position at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is seeking an experienced Records Manager to administer the institutional records management policy and to serve on project team addressing preservation of electronic records. To apply see 



http://www.mfah.org/about/careers/


Responsibilities:
•	Serve on project team researching the implementation of an institutional electronic records archive under a grant funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission


•	Assist in applying existing retention schedules to institutional electronic records
•	Appraise and propose retention schedules for currently unscheduled records in electronic and paper form  
•	Research regulatory, statutory and industry requirements


•	Revise existing retention schedules as necessary for standardization
•	Oversee semi-annual records destructions, off-site storage arrangements and accessioning of records
•	Perform record audits and oversee compliance with existing records management program


•	Provide semi-monthly orientation sessions for staff 
•	Assist the Archives Department with imaging projects and research requests

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
•	Thorough knowledge of records management and archival management principles and methodologies required


•	Knowledge of electronic records archival systems and OAIS reference model required
•	Familiarity with e-mail preservation projects preferred
•	Awareness of emerging technologies for electronic search and discovery preferred


•	Knowledge of MARC21, EAD, DACS, and current metadata standards used in museums, such as VRACore, CDWA, CCO and Getty vocabularies preferred
•	Familiarity with MSSharepoint and MS Access preferred 
•	Excellent communication and organizational skills


•	Ability to work independently, climb ladders and lift up to thirty-five pounds
•	Knowledge of art history desirable

Education and Experience:
•	Masters in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited program required


•	Coursework in records management and 1-3 years records management experience required
•	Bachelors degree in computer science or business preferred
•	Background in law librarianship or experience with Westlaw preferred


•	Experience with enterprise archive software highly desirable
•	CRM highly desirable
•	Experience in museum setting desirable


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