The Biomedical Libraries, part of the Dartmouth College Library and the Geisel School of Medicine, seek an innovative, service-oriented, collaborative librarian with experience in collections management and resource sharing to be our Collection Services Librarian.
This new position combines management of the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ collections and supervision of its resource sharing services. This is an exciting time of change with an opportunity to work with a great team to create new workflows improving service to our users. Come join our team to be part of this inspiring evolution.
The Collection Services Librarian reports to the Director of Biomedical Libraries and is a member of its management team. Working in coordination with librarians and staff, they ensure the collections of the Biomedical Libraries meet the needs of all academic departments, centers, and institutes of the Geisel School of Medicine, constituencies of clinical academic partners at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Department of Biological Sciences, and collaboratively support Dartmouth College’s professional schools, departments, and programs.
Responsibilities
- Monitoring the Biomedical Libraries’ collections budget; facilitating the selection of materials to support the curricular, research, and clinical missions of library users; gathering input from faculty and liaison librarians, and collaborating with other Dartmouth Library staff to provide coordinated collections services.
- Conducting environmental scans and assessing the needs of the collection, using data and other analysis, of the Dartmouth community in conjunction with the liaison librarians as needed; creating and implementing plans to select and deselect materials regularly.
- Supervising the Biomedical Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan services, including managing staff.
- Establishing relationships with vendors; leading marketing efforts for the Biomedical Libraries collections to the Geisel community.
Requirements
- ALA-accredited master’s degree in library and/or information science, or an equivalent combination of an advanced subject or professional degree combined with relevant experience in a medical, academic, or research library.
- Minimum of four years of post-graduate experience.
- Supervisory experience.
- Budget management experience.
- Knowledge of current trends in collection management and scholarly communication.
- Experience with providing or supervising interlibrary loan services.
- Experience with data analysis in a library environment.
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships with vendors.
- Effective communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across the library departments.
- Strong interpersonal, time management, organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and in team environments.
- Evidence of initiative and flexibility.
- Strong customer service orientation.
Review of applications will begin as received. Priority consideration will be given to those submitting applications by April 5; applications will be accepted until position is filled. For the complete position description and to apply online go to: https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/56803
This post was written by Amanda Scull, Head of Education and Information Services for the Biomedical Libraries.
