VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Position Title: Head, Serials Acquisitions Unit, Resource Services Rank: Assistant/Associate Librarian LP#: 838330 Salary: $34,000 minimum Responsible to: Associate Chair, Acquisitions and Serials Section JOB SUMMARY: The Head of the Serials Acquisitions Unit will be responsible for the management of all serials acquisitions functions and the acquisition of library electronic resources. As such, the individual supervises and evaluates the activities of the Serials Acquisitions unit. The unit includes 7.5 support staff that acquire, claim, check-in, binding, and fiscally manage serials in all formats. Serves as the electronic acquisitions expert for licensing, ordering, receiving, housing, and coordinating access that further integrates electronic serials into the collections. Also monitors and analyzes vendor performance, prepares budget reports. Coordinates and implements projects associated with the Humanities and Social Sciences Periodicals Room. RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Responsible for supervision and operation of the Serials Acquisitions Unit. This includes planning and goal setting; monitoring and evaluating workflow for quality and quantity of production; hiring and evaluating staff; coordinating training. 2. Responsible for management of electronic resources acquisitions, licenses, coordinating access to electronic resources once acquired with Electronic Access Services Coordinator and staff in Serials Cataloging, Preservation, Collection Management, Administration, and Public Services. Provides support for management of established licenses and contracts, license compliance, and record keeping for digital information. 3. Responsible for ensuring quality control in acquisitions by monitoring serial vendor services. Perform vendor evaluations and facilitate negotiations of vendor services as needed. Prepare regular budget reports. 4. With the Department Chair, Section Associate Chair and Serials Cataloging Unit Head establishes policies and procedures that coordinate acquisitions and cataloging tasks with national standards and local policy and procedures. As chair of the Serials Operational Committee, coordinates standards and procedures for serials receipt in branches and HSS Periodicals Room. 5. Contributes to the development of departmental and library goals, policies, procedures, and priorities by working with a variety of groups and various assignments, and by drafting suggestions or responses to in-process documents. 6. Leads staff in developing publication patterns for system migration to predictive check-in. 7. Participates in staffing the Humanities and Social Sciences Periodicals Room information desk. Leads planning for further support of Humanities and Social Sciences Periodicals. 8. Participates in and contributes to acquisitions programs and standards on national level. QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Master's degree in library science from an ALA accredited library school. 2. Direct knowledge of and experience in serials management in a networked academic library environment. Knowledge of state-of-the art serials control systems and technology, sufficient to participate actively in planning for migration to a new library system. 3. Familiarity with serials trade, serials holdings standards, metadata standards, current trends in serials control. 4. Demonstrated supervisory and training and problem-solving skills. 5. Experience and facility with basic office software. 6. Excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to work effectively, both as part of a team and individually, with faculty, staff and students. 7. Strong analytical skills and experience in planning, setting priorities, and problem solving. 8. Proven commitment to professional growth and development. 9. Working knowledge of one or more foreign languages. The University of Florida The University of Florida is a large, land grant, public educational research institution with a faculty of approximately 4,000 and a student body of nearly 31,000 undergraduates, over 8,000 graduate students, and over 3,000 professional students. It ranks tenth nationally in size of student body and eighth nationally in the number of merit scholars enrolled in the freshmen class. The University is a member of the Association of American Universities and offers the Ph.D. in 86 fields and the Master's degree in 105 fields. For more information please consult the UF homepage at http://www.ufl.edu <http://www.ufl.edu/> . The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida are members of the Research Libraries Group, SOLINET, and the Center for Research Libraries. The library staff, which numbers more than 300 FTE librarians, technical/clerical staff and student assistants, plays an active state, regional, and national role in CONSER and other library programs related to automation, bibliographic control and preservation. The collections now comprise more than three million cataloged volumes, four million microforms, and extensive holdings of government documents, maps, archival material, computer files, and other formats. The Libraries receive 25,000 current serials and the library resources budget is approximately $6,000,000 annually. The University of Florida shares a NOTIS based integrated system for acquiring, processing, circulating, and assessing its collections. Currently, more than 1, 900,000 titles are in the OPAC. For more information about the Libraries, please visit http://www.uflib.ufl.edu <http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/> . Benefits: Twenty-two vacation days, nine paid holidays, and thirteen days sick leave annually; retirement options; insurance benefits; tuition fee waiver program; no state or local income tax. The University of Florida is an equal opportunity employer and is strongly committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. Applications from a broad spectrum of people, including members of ethnic minorities and disabled persons, are especially encouraged to apply. Send a letter of application along with a resume and three letters of reference, which include the addresses and telephone numbers of those references by July 31, 2000 to: Library Personnel Officer,George A. Smathers Libraries , P.O. Box 117001 Gainesville, FL 32611, Fax 352-392-4538 Denise Bogart-Caballero, PHR Library Personnel Officer George A. Smathers Libraries 370 Library West P.O. Box 117001 Gainesville, Florida 32611 (352) 392-9809 (352) 392-4538 (fax) <denisebc@SMATHERSNT2.UFLIB.UFL.EDU>
