Electronic Resources Librarian
Required Qualifications
- Graduate degree in library science from an ALA-accredited degree program.
- Knowledge of trends and practices in e-resource and serials management.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with other individuals and groups to find solutions.
- Evidence of flexibility, innovative thinking, professional growth, and a vision for the future of academic libraries.
- Effective oral and written communication skills and ability to communicate clearly and professionally with others.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional advanced degree.
- Experience working with electronic resources in academic libraries.
- Knowledge of acquisition modules of a library management systems and electronic resources management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate user needs and seek ways of providing satisfactory solutions.
- Evidence of analytical, organizational, communication, project, and time management skills and demonstrated ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and complete tasks and projects on time and within budget and in accordance with task/project parameters.
Responsibilities & Requirements
- Manage e-resource lifecycle for serials, e-books, datasets, and streaming video, including, record maintenance, purchasing, renewing, invoicing, reporting, and activation.
- Work closely with vendors, library IT, librarians, faculty, and end users on troubleshooting to create an excellent user experience.
- Develop and improve workflows and practices to ensure integrity of financial data and process efficiency.
- Manage print serials including binding in collaboration with other library units.
- Assist Head of Content Acquisitions & Services to assess the performance of the unit and develop improvement plans.
- Contribute as a member of the acquisitions team to develop unit goals, policies, procedures, priorities, and staffing decisions.
- Participate in liaison, reference and instruction duties.
- Participate in research, publication, teaching and service in consonance with University standards for promotion and tenure.
Special Notes
Application Procedure
Those interested in this position should:
1. Complete the online Applicant Information Survey. Do not submit this survey to the department with your application. Any questions
regarding the survey, please email oide@stonybrook.edu.
2. Submit a State Employment Application, cover letter and resume/CV by clicking Apply. Alternately, you may submit your application
package to the departmental address or fax below.
| Pamela DiPasquale |
| University Libraries |
| Stony Brook University |
| Melville Library, Room S1430B |
| Stony Brook, NY 11794-3300 |
| Email: Library_ERL_F100011903@stonybrook.edu |
Campus Description
Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is
located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre
campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than
13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and
a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes
34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges
and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island
region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory,
the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs
with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute.
Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New
York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors
that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park
in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Stony Brook Libraries are known for a wide-range of print and digital resources and
world-renowned special collections. The Stony Brook Libraries belong to the Association
of Research Libraries (ARL), with a Health Sciences Center Library that is a member
of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. The Libraries are engaged
in an ambitious and dynamic strategic planning (2015-2018). The collection exceeds
2 million volumes, including e-books, print and electronic holdings of scholarly journal
subscriptions, microforms, music recordings, and a sizable map collection. The SBU
Libraries include 6 distinct facilities, including Melville Library, Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, Chemistry, Math/Physics, Southampton and and Health Sciences Libraries,
and SUNY Korea-SBU campus. The University's Libraries stand as the largest academic
research library on Long Island, serving as a resource in the local community, state-wide,
and nationally and internationally. The Libraries maintain memberships and affiliations
in arXiv, Association of Research Libraries, SPARC, Center for Research Libraries,
SUNY Connect, DuraSpace (as a SUNY member) the Council on Library and Information
Resources, Digital Library Federation, Coalition of Networked Information, EDUCAUSE,
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Roper Center, OCLC
Research Library Partnership, and ORCID through the National Network of the National
Libraries of Medicine. The Libraries utilize Ex Libris' Aleph for its integrated library
system and have recently deployed EBSCO's Discovery Service, DSpace, Content DM, and
Omeka, are used for managing digital assets and a growing Institutional Repository.
This is an entry-level tenure track position and reports to the Head of Content Acquisitions
& Services. The librarian is responsible for management, policy, planning, and advocacy
for electronic and print serials support within the SBU Libraries. This includes acquisitions,
receipt, and processing of electronic and print serials, binding operations, workflow
implementation, maintenance and review of serial subscriptions in both vendor and
library systems. S/he responds to the injury about journal subscriptions and serial
gifts, and review the vendor products. The Librarian assumes a leadership role in
support of workflows committed in acquiring, describing, and providing access to serial
collections in all mediums and languages. The Librarian will align all processes and
practices within the framework of SBU Libraries organizational initiatives, foster
innovation, and implement constructive change as a part of evolving faculty roles
in support of strategic directions. This position works closely with vendors, librarians,
faculty and staff across all campuses and libraries.
| Official Job Title: | Senior Assistant Librarian |
| REF#: | F-10001-19-09-F |
| Campus: | Stony Brook West Campus |
| Department: | University Libraries |
| Salary: | Commensurate with Experience |
| Posting Start Date: | 09/09/2019 |
| Posting End Date: | 10/09/2019 |
Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 10/09/2019, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information,veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.
If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university office of institutional diversity and equity at (631)632-6280.
| Job Category: Faculty and Librarian |
Posting Date: 09/09/2019
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