Position Opening: Manager, Shared Print Programs, CDL and WEST

CDL is delighted to announce that the position of Manager, Shared Print Programs at the California Digital Library is open for recruitment.  This is an exciting leadership opportunity to help chart the course of shared print collaboration at UC, WEST, and beyond.

Position Opening:

Manager, Shared Print Programs
California Digital Library

Are you passionate about building the collective collection for the 21st century?

The California Digital Library (CDL) seeks a committed, creative, and energetic leader for the position of Manager, Shared Print Programs.   This is an outstanding opportunity to help chart the future of academic library print collections, ensure the preservation of the scholarly record, and play a leading role in regional and national programs to coordinate print collection development and management at scale.   The Manager, Shared Print Programs is responsible for two major shared print efforts that have their home at CDL:  collaborative leadership of shared print initiatives across the ten campus libraries of the University of California (UC) system, and program management for the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a large scale collaboration of 60+ libraries to build a distributed print journal archive across the western United States.   The successful candidate will also cultivate new partnerships and represent CDL/UC and WEST in a variety of extramural initiatives, including the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance, a cross-program initiative that seeks to foster even greater scale in print journal archiving, and the HathiTrust Shared Print Program.

Come join us at CDL and help envision the future of print library collections at UC, WEST, and beyond!

For details about the position and to submit an application, please visit:
https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61177

Requisition Number:   20180286
Closing date:   July 16, 2018

The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California that provides transformative library services, grounded in campus partnerships and extended through external collaborations, to amplify the impact of the libraries, scholarship, and resources of the University of California. The University of California is one of the largest public research universities in the world.  With 40 million print volumes across ten campuses and two regional library facilities, the University’s library holdings are second in size in the U.S. only to the Library of Congress.  For more information, see http://cdlib.org and http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/.

The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed, retrospective print journal repository program that seeks to transform the manner in which legacy print journal collections are housed and managed.  WEST currently has 67 member institutions in sixteen states across the western U.S., with its administrative home at CDL.  For more information, see http://cdlib.org/WEST.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.