Head of Technical Services

Purchase College Library is seeking a collaborative, innovative, and service-oriented individual for the position of Head of Technical Services. This position provides leadership, management, and strategic direction for all Technical Services operations including acquisitions, cataloging and catalog maintenance, periodicals and serials, government documents, and media collections in all formats, materials processing, collections preservation workflows, and weeding. This position supervises the Acquisition and Collections Coordinator, and Government Documents Specialist. This position reports to the Library Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES

•             Provide leadership and management of the Technical Services department and coordinate policies and procedures related to departmental functions.

•             Supervise, train, and participate in hiring and evaluation of staff and student workers.

•             Provide and oversee cataloging of library materials and catalog database maintenance; coordinate acquisitions functions, including both firm orders and subscriptions, in all formats.

•             Process annual renewal of periodicals subscriptions via serials jobber; check in, accession, and update cataloging records for all periodical and serials titles.

•             Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate operations and workflows, establish policies and procedures and set priorities.

•             Participate in the oversight and effective use of the Alma Library Services Platform. Lead efforts of fully leverage system capabilities for department processes including creation of description, batch loading, reporting, analysis, and database maintenance.

•             Maintain current knowledge of national and international developments in search, discovery, cataloging, classification, metadata, and bibliographic and authority control.

•             Foster innovative approaches to improve discovery of collections and maintain/improve data integrity, utilizing tools (e.g. MarcEdit), and system integrations as appropriate.

•             Assist the Library Director with acquisitions planning and budgeting projections.

•             Keep abreast of developments in technology and librarianship; incorporate innovative technology to improve technical services functions and advise on special library technology projects.  Attend professional conferences and/or user group meetings as appropriate.

•             Collects and analyzes data for reports such as: monthly acquisitions and financial reports.

•             Develops relationships outside the library with SUNY colleagues and external vendors.

•             Participates in development of library goals, policy, and budgeting.

•             Serve on Library, College, and SUNY committees as needed.

•             Participates in professional development activities, in support of ongoing job duties.

•             Works a shift at either the circulation or reference desk, once a week.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

•             Master of Library Science and/or Information Science from an ALA accredited program.

•             Minimum five years of experience with management of integrated library systems and technical services functions.

•             Advanced knowledge of cataloging principles and practices, such as with RDA, MARC21, LCSH, and LCC.

•             Knowledge of authority work and experience using metadata management tools.

•             Knowledge of metadata schemas, formats, standards, and protocols.

•             Experience in a supervisory role including hiring, training, and evaluating staff and student workers.

•             Demonstrated project management skills

•             Excellent public service, communication and interpersonal skills.

•             Strong technology skills and the ability to adapt to changing technological environments.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

•             Experience in an academic library. 

•             Experience working with the ExLibris Alma and Primo platforms.

•             Knowledge of linked data.

•             Knowledge of cataloging standards and best practices for DEI in description.

•             Experience in a supervisory role, in a library technical services department.

LocationSUNY Purchase College 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577

Compensation

$78,000 yearly

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