Head of Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
University of New Hampshire
Durham
The University of New Hampshire Library seeks a dynamic, innovative librarian
with solid cataloging and metadata experience to head the UNH Library Metadata
and Cataloging Unit. The incumbent has primary responsibility for providing
leadership in a unit actively engaged in the transformation of our skills and
workflow to meet evolving trends in information organization, discovery, and
access.
The position provides strategic and innovative leadership of cataloging and
metadata services; monitors contractual vendor services; and ensures that
library information resources are rapidly and accurately described in the
Libraries' discovery systems. The incumbent will be a
leader in the selection and implementation of a new integrated library system
that incorporates the emerging Bibframe architecture and linked data.
Reporting to the Dean of the University Library through the Library Faculty
Chair, this is a 12-month, tenure track faculty position with appointment at
the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, depending on qualifications; the
successful candidate will be expected to meet the University reappointment,
promotion, and tenure requirements.
The minimum salary will be $72,320 for the rank of Assistant Professor with a
competitive benefits package.
The University of New Hampshire is a major research institution, providing
comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate programs and graduate programs of
distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of
Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast, and is convenient to New
Hampshire's lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of over 15,000
students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and
more than 70 graduate programs.
The University seeks excellence through diversity among its administrators,
faculty, staff and students. The university prohibits discrimination on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or marital status.
Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged.
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