Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy & Content
East Texas A&M University · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Prairie View, Texas, United States
- Commensurate
- 6+ years
Strategic and administrative leadership for collections, digital strategy, and content within Prairie View A&M University’s Library.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement integrated collections, content, platforms, discovery, and digital strategy aligned with university research, teaching, and academic priorities.
- Lead collection strategy, development, assessment, analytics, and intelligence using cost, usage, curriculum, research activity, faculty expertise, emerging disciplines, and institutional priorities.
- Oversee content acquisition, licensing, electronic resources management, vendor relations, negotiations, resource allocation, and stewardship of the collections budget.
- Establish meaningful measures of collection value, discovery effectiveness, operational performance, and impact, and use findings to guide investment and service decisions.
- Provide strategic direction for metadata, resource description, discovery, integrated library systems, access technologies, and the institutional repository platform.
Requirements
- Master's in Library or Information Science
- Nice to have: Leadership
- Nice to have: Strategic planning
- Nice to have: Implementation
- Nice to have: Organizational change