Director, Supervisory Librarian O
National Forest Service Library
Fort Collins

The Forest Service has an exciting job opportunity available
as Director for the National Forest Service Library in Fort
Collins, Colorado. Subject areas include forestry,
environmental sciences, hydrology, entomology, botany, range and grasslands,
zoology, natural resources and myriad specialty areas such as archaeology,
anthropology, mycology, forest products, geology, mining, roads,
etc. A wide ranging knowledge of the sciences is essential.

  
  
  
The National Forest Service Library serves 30,000+ Forest Service employees
across the United States and Puerto Rico. As a national resource, the Library
is also used by academics, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and
officials from various state, national, and international governmental
agencies. Our collection of over 500,000 items includes a
main library in Fort Collins, CO and two specialty libraries located in
Madison, WI and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The National Forest
Service Library also produces the FS INFO database (http://usfs.vtls.com/cgi-
bin/usfs/chameleon ) and provides a monthly current awareness alerting service
to Forest Service employees.

  
  
  
The director is responsible for overall program direction and management of
the library in coordination with other senior library
staff. This position provides leadership and creative
vision for the future direction of the library program. You
will lead a team of experienced professionals responsible for delivery of
services, resources, and programming. Supervision of a
varied team of librarians, technologists, and library services professionals
includes a staff of about 25 with the branch libraries.

  
  
  
The director also provides direct services in the areas of reference,
collection development, cataloging, training and outreach, and public
relations. Experience in advocating for funding,
supervising experienced employees, collection development, cataloging,
answering reference questions in the area of natural resources, and handling
the day to day operations of a library are required.

  
  
  
Specific application information and additional job details are available on
USAJOBS.GOV announcement:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/437646100/ .



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