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.
Strategic and administrative leadership for collections, digital strategy, and content within Prairie View A&M University’s Library.
Responsibilities
Develop and implement an 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
ALA-accredited master’s degree in library or information science
Nice to have: Demonstrated leadership experience in one or more areas relevant to collections, content, library technology, digital strategy, metadata, discovery, or related operations
Nice to have: Experience leading academic or research library programs, including strategic planning and implementation across collections, content, technology, and digital services
Nice to have: Experience managing organizational change, personnel development, resource allocation, budgets, vendor negotiations, workflow improvement, and evidence-based assessment
Nice to have: Experience with library systems and digital infrastructure, including discovery platforms, electronic resources, repositories, web development, digitization, or digital scholarship