Associate College Librarian

**Haverford Offers Great Benefits**:
**Work Location**: This position will be eligible for a hybrid work schedule, pursuant to the College’s Work Location Policy.

**About the Haverford College Libraries**

Located on a wooded suburban campus less than ten miles from the center of Philadelphia, Haverford College is a highly selective liberal arts institution of approximately 1,400 students and 140 faculty. The Quaker foundation and traditions of the College encourage a respect for the individual and an openness of exchange that make it attractive to intellectually ambitious and socially-conscious students. The Libraries offer a supportive environment for self-motivated, team-oriented, creative, committed librarians and colleagues seeking intellectual and professional growth through involvement in the work of faculty and students. This position affords an excellent opportunity to pursue a career at an outstanding college and in a collaborative and respectful work environment.

**About the Position**

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Oversee all aspects of the Collection Management and Scholarly Communications division of the Haverford College Libraries (6 FTE plus several student assistants). Functional areas include acquisition/licensing, cataloging/metadata, repository administration, and electronic resource management
- Develop collections budget forecasts and allocations, ensure efficient and proper expenditure of the collections budget, and work with the Librarian of the College on identifying resource needs for annual budgeting process
- Provide vision and leadership for the Libraries’ open access strategies, and provide support for open publishing among Haverford scholars
- Administer Haverford’s repository of faculty publications, develop best practices for identifying and ingesting content, and collaborate with campus colleagues to showcase faculty scholarship
- Serve as the Economics librarian, develop the Libraries’ collection in support of department’s curriculum and research interests, provide classroom and individual instruction to students, and work with faculty on development of student research skills throughout the curriculum
- As a member of the Libraries’ administrative team, participate in the management and operation of the Libraries
- Work closely with library counterparts at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges, with particular emphasis on developing mutually-beneficial services for and approaches to collection management activities

**Line of Report**:The Associate College Librarian & Coordinator for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications reports to the Librarian of the College. This position directly supervises two exempt positions: Head of Acquisitions & Serials, and Head of Metadata Services & Visual Resources Librarian.

**Minimum Qualifications**
- MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution
- 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience working in a collection management/technical services unit within an academic or research library

**Professional Competencies**
- Experience monitoring collections expenditures and generating budget reports and forecasts
- Experience with collection assessment and data-informed collection management strategies
- Thorough knowledge of trends in scholarly communications, especially open publishing, transformative agreements, Creative Commons licensing, funder mandates, and national/international Open Access initiatives
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, mature judgment, and initiative
- Understanding of and commitment to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Strong service orientation
- Ability to foster teamwork and to work energetically, imaginatively, and respectfully with all constituents in an academically ambitious community
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate complex information effectively

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience querying data in an integrated library system, especially Ex Libris’ Alma
- Experience providing guidance to faculty and other campus constituents on intellectual property/copyright law
- Aptitude for quantitative data management, manipulation, and analysis, especially utilizing software such as Stata, R and Python
- Experience collaborating productively in a consortial environment

Haverford College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and providing equal opportunities and access to all individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status. Women, non-binary and transgender individuals, people of color, Indigenous people, and those with other or multiple historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities are especially encouraged to apply. Haverford College and our consortial partners are located on Lenape lands.