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    Posted: 07/Sep/2017 at 6:32pm
Department: Library Special Collections
Rank and Salary:              Associate Librarian – Librarian ($64,207 - $90,921)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: September 28, 2017

Description of Institution and Library
As one of the world's great public research universities, UCLA integrates education, research, and public service so that each enriches and extends the others. From its beautiful neighborhood campus in a uniquely diverse and vibrant city on the Pacific Rim, teaching and research extend beyond the classroom, office, and lab through active engagement with communities, organizations, projects, and partnerships throughout the region and around the world.

UCLA’s diverse community of scholars encompasses nearly 30,000 undergraduates pursuing 125 majors, 13,000 graduate students in fifty-nine research programs, and 4,000 faculty members including Nobel Laureates; Rhodes Scholars; MacArthur Fellows; winners of the Fields Medal, National Medal of Science, Pritzker Prize, and Pulitzer Prize; and recipients of Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, and Golden Globes. UCLA ranks tenth in the Times of London Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, twelfth in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and fifth in the U.S. by Washington Monthly. The National Research Council ranks forty of its graduate and doctoral research programs among its top ten.

To enable these accomplished students, faculty, and staff to create, disseminate, and apply knowledge for the benefit of global society, the UCLA Library is re-envisioning how it is acquired, synthesized, and shared across academic audiences and with the public. It was among the first academic libraries to develop subject-specialist librarians and to launch a program to enhance students’ research skills. Its Special Collections pioneered the acquisition by public institutions of rare and unique books, children’s literature, pulp and detective fiction, works by or about women and minorities, screenplays, architectural plans, and Los Angeles-related materials and today leads the way in collecting archival resources in digital format such as emails and manuscripts. It has launched innovative data management services and an affordable course materials initiative that have served as models for other libraries.

The Library serves UCLA students, faculty, and staff whenever and wherever they need its resources and expertise. Reconfigured, high-tech spaces and services in its ten campus libraries enable users and librarians to explore and work with print and digital materials collaboratively or individually, pursue new lines of inquiry, and develop new pedagogical approaches as well as novel forms of scholarship. More than 3.5 million people visit annually, while an additional 3.4 million visitors enter online through its virtual front doors.

Whether on campus or online, the Library forms the intellectual heart of UCLA, a hub for cutting-edge discovery, scholarship, and instruction.

UCLA Library Special Collections actively builds and stewards collections including rare book and primary source collections to support and enrich research, teaching, and learning for UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff as well as an international community of scholars and the public. Its holdings encompass but are not limited to a significant rare book collection that includes an unusually large number of artists’ books, fine press editions, and examples of early printing as well as more than 2,000 archival collections including born-digital content, with particular strengths in twentieth-century photography, literature, art, music, and Los Angeles history and culture. It also houses significant and growing physical, virtual and born digital international content and collections used in support of teaching and research.

Position Duties
The UCLA Library invites applications for the newly created position of Head of Outreach and Community Engagement, reporting to the Head of Library Special Collections (LSC). The UCLA Library seeks an enthusiastic, creative, and service-oriented professional to lead and coordinate outreach and community engagement for the Library Special Collections department. An increasing number of scholars, students and faculty are using rare books, manuscripts, and archives both physically and virtually in new and increasingly complex ways in support of teaching and research. In addition, UCLA as a premier public research university is committed to broader public access and community engagement. This position seeks an engaged and energetic leader to expand the use of Library Special Collections well beyond our existing base of users in support of teaching and research.

Reporting to the Head of Library Special Collections, the incumbent leads and coordinates outreach and community engagement for the Library Special Collections department. The Head of Outreach and Community Engagement directly supervises 6 FTE and manages all public and community services; coordinates reader services, outreach, programming and physical and virtual exhibits for LSC. The incumbent leads and collaborates across the UCLA Library to develop a robust data analytic program to assess and expand LSCs’ user-centered services and community engagement activities, and actively collaborates with UCLA faculty in the coordination and development of instruction for classes and for researchers.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

·        Leads and collaborates with staff in Special Collections and across the library, campus, and beyond to plan, develop, and oversee an outreach program that features the holdings of the department and supports the teaching mission of UCLA.
·        Leads in establishing programs and services that publicize and promote use of the collections through exhibits and outreach activities including tours, presentations, public events, and outreach sessions with constituents on campus and in the greater Los Angeles community.
·        Recruits, trains, mentors, and manages public service staff, assigning work and developing staff specializations as appropriate.
·        Collaborates with all LSC and UCLA Library Outreach and Engagement staff and all of Library Special Collections staff to provide reader and research services. In consultation with the department head and in collaboration with the other department managers, defines and implements policies and procedures for reader services, reference, duplication, access, and reading room services in accordance with identified standards and best practices.
·        Collaborates, coordinates, and promotes all Special Collections exhibits (online and physical) and designates a registrar for external loans. Collaborates with all members of LSC and Collections Council Digitization Team, Cataloging and Metadata Center, and Digital Library staff on digital exhibits and with the supervisor for Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) to coordinate exhibits curated by graduate student CFPRT fellows.
·        Collaborates and works closely with curatorial, collection management, and administrative teams to offer a holistic perspective and insure mission fulfillment. Works closely and liaises with leaders and members of newly established User Engagement teams and others across UCLA Library on understanding user needs, establishing new services, and coordinating services in support of teaching and research.
·        Works with all LSC managers and staff to expand online services. This includes coordinating staff members responsible for maintaining the LSC website in order to maintain the currency of its contents.
·        Consults and collaborates with Library Communications on promotional and communications activities focused on LSC holdings, programs, and services.
·        Coordinates and oversees class visits, departmental tours, and public services activities and programs to promote LSC collections and services.
·        Identifies and develops reference holdings appropriate for LSC collecting areas in consultation with curatorial team and public services staff.
·        Develops and coordinates reference guides to collections and reference resources for users.
·        Collaborates with Library Development on donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
·        Actively engages and participates in the rare books and manuscripts and library profession.

Required Qualifications
·        ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library or Information Science OR significant graduate-level coursework toward such a degree OR equivalent education and experience (subject expertise combined with professional library education and/or experience).
·        Minimum of five years of recent experience in a special collections setting with experience in reference, outreach, and exhibit curation.
·        Formal coursework or training in rare books, and/or special collections librarianship and/or museum studies.
·        Experience with the standards, ethics, security guidelines, and best practices in use by special collections professionals and related professional groups including ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, the Society of American Archivists and the American Alliance of Museums.
·        Experience or training in planning, implementing, and assessing user-centered services.
·        Excellent organizational and time management skills, as well as balancing and completing multiple assignments and projects.
·        Extensive experience and ability to work creatively, collaboratively and effectively to promote teamwork, diversity, equality and inclusiveness within UCLA Library and in all aspects of work.
·        Extensive experience in promoting knowledge of and use of primary source and rare book and manuscript collections.
·        Minimum of five year of supervisory experience that includes training and directing the work of library assistants and/ or student assistants.
·        Evidence of successful teamwork.
·        A strong record of engagement with the profession through committee work, presentations, and/or publication.
·        Formal coursework or training in primary source literacy, object-based pedagogical strategy, and/or active learning techniques using primary sources and/or special collections.
·        Experience and enthusiasm for developing pedagogy and teaching using primary source and other Library Special Collections and distinctive content and collections held by the UCLA Library.

Desired Qualifications
·        Formal coursework, training, or experience in conservation, rights management, and exhibition loan procedures.
·        Reading skills in one or more of the following languages: Spanish, French, German, or Italian.
·        Familiarity with the Aeon client interface or technologies that promote the management and use of special collections materials.

General Information

Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. Librarians at UCLA are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This is a represented position. They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance may be provided.

Appointees to the librarian series at UC shall have professional backgrounds that demonstrate a high degree of creativity, teamwork, and flexibility. Such background will normally include a professional degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science graduate program. In addition to professional competence and quality of service within the library in the primary job, advancement in the librarian series requires professional involvement and contributions outside of the library, and/or university and community service, and/or scholarly activities. Candidates must show evidence or promise of such contributions.

Application Procedures
Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply here: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03302

Applications must include:
·        a cover letter describing qualifications and experience;
·        a current resume/vitae detailing education and relevant experience; and
·        the names and contact information for three professional references, including a current or previous supervisor.

Candidates applying by September 28, 2017, will be given first consideration for this position. UC LA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities. UCLA seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see: UC Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policy at http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Under federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to work in the United States as established by providing documents specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employment is contingent upon completion of satisfactory background investigation.

Visit the Jobs @ UCLA Library website at: http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/jobs-ucla-library

Maurita Ploesch
Assistant Director, Academic Human Resources
22478 Charles E. Young Research Library Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Office: (310) 825-7095
Fax: (310) 825-6174
mploesch@library.ucla.edu
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