Associate University Librarian For Discovery And Access

Basic Qualifications

• 10 or more years' experience in a large research library, university, or academic enterprise with 5 or more years in a leadership role.

• Demonstrated success in developing inclusive, sustainable services and leveraging digital technologies.

• Master of Library and Information Science degree or equivalent education/experience.

Position Description

• As an active member of the Vice President's senior team, shares responsibility for library-wide planning, resource allocation, organizational development, and strategies for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the library's workforce, services, collections, and spaces, in support of the library's mission.

• Provides collaborative, strategic leadership in the continual evolution of services that enable people and machines to discover and access library content, whether that content is in digital or tangible format, purchased or licensed, created in the library, or in open access channels.

• Is a knowledgeable thought leader and partner in the creative opportunities of current and emerging technologies to advance discovery and access.

• Works very closely with counterparts in library technology services, scholarly resources and services, and special collections and archives, builds strong trust relationships with colleagues across the library, university, and peer institutions, and represents the library in collaborative initiatives.

• Supervises senior leaders of units responsible for content acquisition, digitization, description, and access for libraries across the university, and user experience research that informs library services.

• Provides guidance to direct reports on human resources, finances, and other administrative matters, in consultation with other administrative colleagues as appropriate. The portfolio includes approximately 245 staff and the associated budgets of each unit.

• Ensures a user-centered and evidence-based approach to the development of inclusive, sustainable services.

• Adapts organizational practices to meet strategic priorities, including shifting those created for a print-dominant world to ones supporting the hybrid world of digital and print.

• Facilitates a focus on equitable employee development programs that build creativity and flexibility and support evolution in skills, enabling employees to contribute their best work in pursuit of goals and objectives.

Job Summary

Although this position will remain posted until filled, applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by end of day on May 13, 2024.

Reporting to the Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Discovery and Access is an active member of the Vice President's senior team, sharing responsibility for library-wide planning, resource allocation, organizational development, and strategies for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in the library's workforce, services, collections, and spaces, in support of the library's mission. The AUL provides collaborative, strategic leadership in the continual evolution of services that enable people and machines to discover and access library content, whether that content is in digital or tangible format, purchased or licensed, created in the library, or in open access channels. They are a knowledgeable thought leader and partner in the creative opportunities of current and emerging technologies to advance discovery and access. The AUL's direct reports are senior leaders of units responsible for content acquisition, digitization, description, and access for libraries across the university, and user experience research that informs library services.