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Code4Lib colleagues - UCLA is looking for a Director of the Southern Regional Library Facility, a high density storage facility that serves the 10 campuses of University of California. In addition to managing the facility and staff, this position is responsible for strategic initiatives in collection management and shared print as well as a robust digitization operation. Speaking as a technology-focused librarian who serves as the Director of the Northern Regional Library Facility I can say that there are a lot of opportunities in this position to explore automation, digital preservation, shared collections and other exciting topics in LIS. If you would like to talk more about the position please feel free to get in touch. Erik -- Erik Mitchell Associate University Librarian Director of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services Director, Northern Regional Library Facility University of California, Berkeley [log in to unmask] http://erikmitchell.info <begin boilerplate> http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/employment-human-resources/staff-positions Under the general direction of the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication, the Director of the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF) and Collaborative Shared Print Programs is responsible for the leadership, management and operations of the SRLF and for Collaborative Shared Print Programs. The Director manages the UC Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF), a university-wide academic support program stewarding library materials including special collections, manuscripts, archives, audio-visual collections and content for the five southern campuses and stewarding the materials of the UC Shared Print Archives Program. Responsibilities include the planning for the growth of collaborative shared print activities, positioning the SRLF to play a leadership role in a network of shared print repositories, implementing innovative technical and other service enhancements to improve cross institutional sharing and management of collections and coordinating and overseeing preservation imaging services including large scale digitization and reformatting. SRLF is a large-scale, high density, environmentally controlled collection management facility located on the UCLA campus, with capacity for seven million volume equivalents. It serves the five southern campuses of the University of California: Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara, as well as the northern UC campuses. The SRLF Preservation Imaging Service enables libraries to preserve fragile print materials through microfilm or digital formatting, and to share the resulting images with other libraries and the general public through Internet/Web access to the UCLA Digital Library and/or the California Digital Library, or though the less vulnerable medium of microfilm. The SRLF participates in the UC Shared Print Archive Program, providing storage for the print copy of select journal titles. The print archive programs held at the SRLF have grown to include the JSTOR Archive and UC Shared Print for Licensed Content (with content fully accessible online), and the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST Archive) that includes 100+ member libraries and more than 400K journal volumes archived across the WEST membership. Applicants will be able to view and apply for this job until the Posting Expiration Date of 06-15-2015. You may view your posting and the applicants that have applied for this position by accessing UCLA ( https://hr.jobs.ucla.edu).