Collection Services Librarian

By Lakehead University

Dead Line: April 30, 2022

• Coordinates the operations of acquisitions, cataloguing and metadata, and other collection management functions using the library services platform (Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE).
• Manages the libraries’ materials budget, ensuring efficient and cost-effective workflows for ordering, invoicing, receiving, claiming, and expending budgeted funds.
• Develops policies and strategies for managing the libraries’ collection in areas such as product trials, subscription management, weeding, collection development policies, usage data collection, authority control, etc.
• Works with liaison librarians to evaluate new resources and oversees the process to make purchase, renewal and cancellation decisions.
• Ensures the discoverability of resources and collections.
• Provides statistical and budgetary analysis for electronic resources, leading the libraries in developing and maintaining awareness of emerging technologies and technical issues related to acquisition, licensing, access, and usage.
• Assists liaison librarians with collection-related departmental requests and reports such as Lakehead University’s Instructional Quality Assurance Program reports, accreditation reports and national library reporting. 
• Participates in collaborative activities around the Omni consortium; such activities may include Network Zone cleanup, shared cataloguing loads, and shared acquisitions as required.
• Supervises, trains and assigns tasks to a team of library technicians (currently 3 FTE). 
• Keeps current with trends and issues in higher education, with a focus on emerging technologies related to acquisitions, metadata and collection development.

• Commits to assessment and evidence-based decision making related to services, collections, technology, and physical spaces.
• Contributes to the leadership of the library by participating in Librarians’ Council as well as various library and university committees.
• Contributes to research and scholarly activities, professional services, service to the university, and service to the profession and community.

• Serves as the liaison librarian for assigned departments and is responsible for outreach to students and faculty in those departments.
• Ensures that their liaison departments are provided with quality collection development, reference and research assistance, instruction, and other appropriate services and support. 

• A graduate degree from an ALA-accredited school of library and information science, or its equivalent.
• Relevant experience in collections, acquisitions and budget management.
• Experience working with bibliographic control and metadata systems and standards.
• Knowledge of current cataloguing rules, standards, and controlled vocabularies, including RDA, LC Classification, and LCSH.
• Working knowledge of and experience with MARC21.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a collegial manner.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• At least two years of relevant experience in an academic library environment.
• Experience with Ex Libris Alma and Primo platforms.
• Experience with other non-MARC metadata formats, standards or schema including Dublin Core and BIBFRAME.
• Aptitude for learning new technologies and metadata standards.
• Strong supervisory and team-building skills and demonstrated experience providing leadership to staff in an effective, productive and positive manner. 
• A graduate degree in addition to a graduate degree in library and information science.
• The salary and rank of the appointment will be commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. Lakehead University librarians are members of the Lakehead University Faculty Association and are eligible for sabbatical leave (https://lufa.org/agreement/).