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Job summary:

“The Head of Digital Scholarship Strategy is a newly created role tasked with developing content strategies aligned with our priorities to provide access to the latest digital scholarly resources, capture unique UNLV scholarly output, and integrate born-digital scholarly products into our collecting portfolio. This role will work through a library wide collections team that includes faculty from across the Libraries with designated collecting responsibilities such as Library Liaisons, the Director of Special Collections and the Head of Collection Management. The team will clarify collecting scope and responsibilities across all collecting areas and will identify and engage cross- organizational expertise in the collection, infrastructure, description and delivery of digital content.”

Institution Link:

http://www.unlv.edu

Location:

Las Vegas, NV

Deadline:

Open until filled

How to apply:

For the complete job description and instructions for applying, go here: http://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=175829677&Title=Head%20of%20Digital%20Scholarship%20Strategy

(Hat tip to ALA JobList)

Artstor is a nonprofit organization that assembles and makes available a Digital Library of images and associated data for noncommercial educational and scholarly uses, and an image management platform called Shared Shelf. The Digital Library and Shared Shelf are made available online through site licenses with educational and other nonprofit institutions. Artstor is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Library Relations Associate will share responsibility for expanding and supporting Artstor Digital Library participation, particularly within the K-12 school community in the United States and other countries. Artstor is introducing new resources for the Advanced Placement Art History curriculum and to enhance classroom teaching, and the Associate will collaborate with Artstor's Senior K-12 Relationship Manager to support these initiatives. This position will require some travel (25%), and will demand a self-motivated, flexible, organized team player who thrives in an environment of constant change.

The LR Associate will report directly to the Director for Library Relations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Working to meet and exceed subscription goals on an annual basis;
• Communicating Artstor's mission, messages, and subscription fee rationale to potential K-12 participants;
• Identifying and managing new participation opportunities in the K-12 community;
• Facilitating subscription at the institution and district levels by demonstrating the Artstor Digital Library, its services and tools, and providing librarians and instructors with useful information and strategies for promoting Artstor as a school-wide resource;
• Shepherding potential subscribers through the sales pipeline, including:
o Responding, via email and telephone, to subscription inquiries via the Artstor website
o Tracking contact information and “pipeline” status in our customer relationship management software
o Negotiating basic terms of License Agreements
o Working with other units to establish institutional access to the Artstor Digital Library
o Giving remote demonstrations of Artstor via GoToMeeting or other live conference software
o Setting up trial access for interested institutions
• Representing Artstor at conferences and other events deemed appropriate for this community;
• Assisting with updating and maintaining the customer relationship management database;
• Liaising with User Services to enhance support of current K-12 subscribers;
• Contributing to internal reports;
• Keeping up-to-date on various Artstor initiatives and developments and being able to communicate these initiatives to potential K-12 participants;
• Additional special projects as assigned by the Director, Senior K-12 Relationship Manager, and other senior staff members.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills in a variety of settings;
• Attention to detail and accuracy;
• Ability to work well as a team member;
• Strong technology skills, including familiarity with trends in web development as well as project management experience;
• Exceptional organizational skills;
• Ability to perform independently, be self-motivated, adapt to constant change and able to juggle multiple tasks with a positive attitude;
• Strong commitment and interest in the use of images in a K-12 setting;
• Bachelor's Degree;
• 2-3 years of experience in K-12 educational field.

Desirable

• Familiarity with the Artstor Digital Library;
• Arts and humanities background;
• Sales, business development, marketing, and/or academic library experience;
• Working knowledge of image database technology;
• Experience with customer relationship management software (Talisma, SalesForce or other);
• Master's Degree.

Artstor offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit a cover letter with salary requirements along with a resume to: careers@artstor.org.

Artstor is an equal opportunity employer.

An article at Vitae today talks about the recent decision at East Carolina University to quit offering tenure-track librarian positions. The article stresses that librarians aren't stripped of tenure, and untenured but tenure-track librarians may still pursue tenure; it's just that new hires won't have that opportunity.

This was already an issue when I was in library school back in the 90s. As a matter of fact, the institution where I worked then made a similar decision, and at that time it was even more contentious than it is now. But as one of the people interviewed in the article notes, tenure-track positions are getting harder to come by across the board. As “low-hanging fruit” goes, I don't know that librarians are even the lowest; that misfortune seems to go to the adjuncts.

What do you think? Are you tenured or on the tenure track? If you aren't, do you want to be? Or would you rather not be? Discuss in the comments. (NOTE: Comments are moderated AND Captcha'ed, thanks to an influx of spam. But please don't let that keep you from commenting. If you're a real person, you'll get through!)

• Planning, delivering and evaluating programming for children,
• Developing collections in multiple formats to serve the needs of children,
• Providing general reference, reader's advisory, and related customer services,
• Outreach and collaboration with schools and other organizations focused on children and their caregivers,
• Representing the needs of children and their caregivers within the library and in the larger library and local communities.