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　　The University of Chicago Library empowers users with deep and richcollections, extensive expertise, innovative programs, and diversespaces. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive community,enhancing access to scholarly resources, advancing digital scholarship,engaging locally and globally, and excelling in a changing environment.

　　The Library is developing and implementing a new strategy to transformcollection development and management, one that addresses changing needsand moves us to a place where providing access to information is asimportant as ownership. This will include collaborative and collectivecollecting, and will incorporate new forms of scholarship. The Libraryis deeply committed to advancing diversity equity and inclusion throughpractice; the Collections Strategy Librarian will explore and advancenew methods and strategies for discovering and increasing the diversityof our collections. The Collections Strategist Librarian is aninnovative service-oriented librarian who will collaborate across theLibrary to create and constantly refine the Library\'s collectionstrategy towards creating an open, accessible, equitable andtransformative contribution to the global knowledge environment.

　　The Collections Strategist Librarian will work closely with theAssociate University Librarian for Collections and Access and collectionleaders at UChicago and beyond, including consortial partners such asthe Big Ten Academic Alliance\'s BIG Collection, and Ivy Plus LibrariesConfederation efforts. They will also engage in community focusedinitiatives and activities, through collaborations with partners fromcampus offices and programs.

　　The ideal candidate possesses skills and abilities to assess andevaluate our existing collection and identify avenues for future growthand expansion and have some experience leading strategic initiatives orservices with a wide range of stakeholders. The candidate will need toanalyze our own existing collections, practices, capacities,constraints, and potentials to transform our collections strategy and becreative in solving problems in a collaborative environment.

　　Responsibilities and Duties

　　Reporting to the Library\'s Associate University Librarian forCollections and Access, the Librarian will join a dynamic team thatincludes Access Services, Technical Services, and Preservation. Inparticular, the Collections Strategist will:

　　Analyze our existing collection to understand strengths and weaknessesand to understand current total size and anticipated growth rates.Analyze investments in various parts of the collection to locate areaswhere our monetary investment does not align with campus priorities.

　　Collaborate with subject selectors to understand, document and analyzecollection practices and advocate for needed changes in our collectingpractices and policies and work with individual subject specialists todevelop unified collection policies where needed.

　　Draft various top-level collecting policies as they affect growth thecollections, and plan for anticipated collection growth in all areas andcollaborate with colleagues to address collection maintenance andstorage strategies.

　　Work closely with the Collections committees of the Big Ten AcademicAlliance, and Ivy Plus Library Consortium, cooperative programming andcollaborative collection development.

　　Serve on Library and University Committees and represent the library invarious local and national groups working to address collectionstrategies.

　　Track trends in cooperative and collective collecting, in particularamong our key partner groups, BTAA and IPLC, and recommend approachesthat we could pursue, and projects that we could benefit from joining.

　　Develop a hol stic and intentional strategy to support diversity,equity, and inclusion in the collection, including articulatedcollection metrics to assess the impact.

　　Qualifications

　　Required

　　ALA-accredited master\'s degree or an equivalent combination ofrelevant experience and advanced degree5 years of experience in an academic or research library orequivalentDemonstrated experience building collections and collectiondevelopment policies in an academic library, providing collectionassessment, and managing large collection budgetsExperience in collaborative planning processes to inform strategy,demonstrated by examples such as the creation of roadmaps or plansproduced through multi-stakeholder review or processPreferred

　　Demonstrated experience with collection analysis

　　Project planning experience

　　Demonstrated knowledge of trends in use of academic library collections

　　Demonstrated experience in managing complex collections projects withmultiple stakeholders

　　Demonstrated understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion issues,particularly as they relate to library collection issues

　　Demonstrated experience in working with collection analysis toolscombined with the abilit