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Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming research libraries' print collections through new partnerships and approaches to collection management in an increasingly digital age? If you're eager to work in a dynamic consortial environment and have a passion for collection management, stewardship and library collaboration, join us! The California Digital Library seeks a creative collections analyst to help reshape the landscape of print collections management among research libraries. The Shared Print Collections Analyst gathers and analyzes information about library resources to support decision-making among partner libraries, including the libraries of the University of California and members of the Western Regional Storage Trust. The analyst provides support to major shared print projects such as the UC JSTOR Shared Print Archive, the Western Regional Storage Trust and emerging initiatives in shared monograph and federal documents management. This is a three (3) year contract position, beginning immediately. Required * Master's degree in Library and/or Information Science and some years of experience working in a library setting in a collections, technical services, or systems capacity, or an equivalent combination of education and experience * Knowledge of library bibliographic data and the evolution of print publishing * Strong analytical and organizational skills * Ability to combine, manipulate and normalize data from diverse sources * Ability to graphically present summary findings, key characteristics and relationships * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong customer service orientation Preferred * Experience working in an academic research library * Understanding of current and emerging models for the collection and dissemination of scholarly content * Familiarity with sources of library and publishing metadata and collection analysis principles * Experience accessing and retrieving remote data from web services that return bibliographic and usage data such as the OCLC WorldShare Platform Services and APIs * Experience using library collection analysis tools such as the OCLC Collection Analysis Tool, Ulrich's Serials Analysis System, Ulrich's XML Data and Serials Solutions Knowledgebase. ABOUT CDL SHARED PRINT Shared Print is a unit of the California Digital Library's Collection Development program that serves the libraries of the ten campuses of the University of California and collaborates extensively on regional and national efforts among research libraries. Learn more: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/sharedprint/ ABOUT THE WESTERN REGIONAL STORAGE TRUST The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed retrospective print journal repository program serving more than 100 libraries and library consortia in the Western Region of the United States. The California Digital Library (CDL) serves as the administrative host for WEST. Learn more: http://www.cdlib.org/services/west/ ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY The California Digital Library (CDL) supports the University of California libraries in their mission of providing access to the world's knowledge for the UC campuses and the communities they serve. The University of California library system, which includes more than 100 libraries on ten campuses, collectively is the largest research/academic library in the world. CDL is conveniently located in downtown Oakland. More information about CDL is available at http://www.cdlib.org. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/5325/