Collection Strategies Specialist

University of Colorado•Denver, CO

4d•$58,031 - $64,150•Hybrid

About The Position

The Collection Strategies Specialist manages collection maintenance projects with a focus on improving the stacks for accessibility, supervises student employees, and assists with interlibrary loan services. This position will be responsible for training student employees, repairing books, assisting with book displays, shelving, inventorying, shifting and shelf-reading, and processing interlibrary loan requests. This service-oriented staff member will be an integral member of the Collection Development and Strategies Department which leads efforts for the strategic selection, acquisition, development, management, and assessment of high quality, diverse, inclusive and equitable Learning Material collections in all formats and across all disciplines to support the learning, research, teaching, and administration needs of students, staff & faculty of the Auraria campus.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, library science, or related field.
One (1) year of professional level experience working in an academic or public library setting.
Substitution: A combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year-for-year basis.
Ability to identify and solve problems independently and on a team.
Demonstrated project management skills and a commitment to a user-centered approach to library spaces.
Strong organizational, interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
Capable of managing competing demands and flexibly responding to challenges.
Library collection maintenance principles and practices.
Student employee supervision and training practices.
Commitment to accessibility, diversity, and equitable collection practices.

Nice To Haves

Two (2) years of professional level experience supervising student employees.
Two (2) years of professional level experience in interlibrary loan program.
One (1) year of professional level experience working with collections or within Library spaces.

Responsibilities

Leads departmental efforts to improve collection maintenance for both monographs and serials.
Proactively evaluates, identifies, suggests, and implements collection maintenance projects and priorities, with the goal of improving accessibility for patrons.
Establishes best standards for growth in the stacks while considering short and long-term collection planning and goals.
Actively participates in shelf-reading, shelving, and inventory.
Oversees weeding projects, including physically removing items from the collection and updating the records.
Manages a tool that updates collection signage, as needed.
Supports all library projects that involve the stacks, such as the Classification Contextualization initiative, which highlights key areas of bias in the Library of Congress classification.
Ensures timely check-in of all print periodicals and standing orders.
Maintains the print periodicals and conducts print periodical usage studies to assist in renewal decisions.
Sends and receives items from the bindery, twice yearly, updating records to ensure that bound periodicals are accessible to our users.
Serves as the in-house expert for repairing the library’s general collection, evaluating and repairing titles in-house or sending to the bindery.
Collaborates with Collection Development Librarians to determine which damaged materials should be withdrawn, repaired, or replaced.
Responsible for selecting and maintaining repair supplies.
Creates a monthly book display- selecting a theme, titles, creating signage, and updating records.
Manages Faculty Authors’ Display- labeling books written by faculty, updating records, and ensuring that newly purchased faculty author books are put on display.
Collaborates with Collection Development Librarians to establish and maintain various collections, including Graphic Novels, Faculty Authors’, and the Game collection.
Hires, trains, and supervises student employees, depending on department needs.
Oversees student employees in other departments, when they are assisting with stacks projects.
Directs shelving, shelf-reading, shifting, and inventory and communicates these priorities to student employees.
Conducts an annual student review.
Monitors overall progress and adjusts the work when necessary.
Contributes to the Student Employee Supervisor Group.
Determines needs for stacks student employees in coordination with Collection Development and Strategies Department Head.
Performs a variety of duties related to Interlibrary Loan services which facilitate the exchange of materials between libraries.
Processes borrowing, lending, and document delivery requests.
Assists with special ILL projects as needed.
Contributes to internal institutional knowledge of library & department by maintaining, updating, creating & saving documentation.
Other duties as assigned.