Associate Librarian for Collection Management

Job Description Summary

Faculty are essential to Liberty University’s mission of Training Champions for Christ. It is expected that ‎‎‎‎‎a faculty member model a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University, engage ‎‎‎‎‎in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed ‎‎‎‎‎Christian worldview. Faculty should view their teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a ‎‎‎means to a significant educational ‎‎end. They should strive to employ a variety of techniques for the ‎‎‎development of good learning ‎‎conditions, view each student as a unique individual, and insofar as it is ‎‎‎possible, provide for individual ‎‎differences, abilities, and interests. ‎

The Associate Librarian for Collection Management is responsible for planning, developing, promoting, and directing the operations of the Collection Management (Technical Services) Department of the Law Library, coordinating all aspects of budgeting, acquisitions, cataloging, and classification of the library’s information resources.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Oversees and manages the Law Library materials budget, coordinating with the Director of the Law Library to establish annual budget projections and increases
• Maintains and updates all material and budget statistics for ABA reporting
• Collects and publishes data about the library collection and the work of the Technical Services department using established procedures and reports
• Serves as Law Library’s System Administrator for integrated library automation system (Alma)
• Participates in reference services
• Supervises and trains Technical Services staff
• Oversees and assigns the workflow of the Technical Services department
• Performs original cataloging
• Maintains bibliographic records on integrated library automation system (Alma)
• Establishes and publishes departmental policies for cataloging and procedural standards
• Participates in collection development, evaluating and recommending materials for purchase
• Analyzes collection strengths
• Conducts periodic inventories of the collection
• Serves as contact with vendors and publishers
  
  
  

Education And Experience

• Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) from an ALA-accredited library school, or equivalent
• Juris Doctor preferred
• Law library or comparable experience
  
  
  

Disclaimer Liberty University’s hiring practices and EEO Statement are fully in compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment preference to members of their own religion. Liberty University is in that category.