Head Of Technical Services

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Head of Technical Services

Duties: Plans, implements, and evaluates operations, establishes policies and procedures, and sets priorities in all technical and collection services areas of the law library including: acquisitions and cataloging, metadata, serials, interlibrary loan, electronic resources, vendor relationships and communications, and data gathering and statistics. Participate in providing reference and research services, actively support the research and teaching interests of the faculty, teach legal research, and maintain the college’s faculty institutional repository. Reports directly to the Law Library Director.
Leadership and University Service: Oversight and supervision for Moscow Technical Services operations and personnel, including acquisitions, cataloguing, metadata and bibliographic standards, serials acquisition and processing, and interlibrary loan. Provides cataloguing and metadata services, such as the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of metadata across multiple discovery platforms and library systems, including use of applicable tools for manipulating data (e.g., MARCEdit, XML, normalization rules), Responsible for record loads and troubleshooting data problems. Trains, evaluates and supervises technical services staff performing acquisitions, serials, cataloguing, and interlibrary loan functions and ensure compliance with national and local standards such as MARC, RDA, AACR2r, LCSH, LCCS, OCLC, LC cataloging practices, and other appropriate cataloging and metadata standards, interlibrary loan procedures, and serials-related best practices.
Ensure efficient operations of the integrated library system by facilitating access to library materials, including electronic and digital resources; electronic resources purchasing, licensing, and activation; coordinating with other UI library locations regarding operation of the ILS; collaborating with the Orbis Cascade Alliance; and participating in Resource Management Services planning. Performs personnel evaluations and reviews consistent with departmental and university policies and procedures. Assists with the hiring, scheduling, and training of appropriate Law Library faculty, Board-appointed staff, Temporary Help staff, and student personnel, as necessary. Assists in the collection and recording of all pertinent statistical data, and submits reports based on such data to the Director, other library staff, or requesting organizations. Undertakes special assignments, studies or surveys related to the technical services functions as requested or needed. Outreach and Extension: Provides reference and research support services to law school students, faculty, staff, members of the University community, and the general public. Engages in intramural and non-university, professional service activities (via committees, etc.) consistent with the traditional service roles engaged in by tenure-track faculty and in keeping with departmental, college, and university expectations, including professional organizations at the state, regional, or national level that advance librarianship, law librarianship, technical services, legal information study and use, or legal research. Teaching and Advising: Teaches legal research in the first year curriculum. Scholarship and Creative Activities: Engages in scholarly and creative activity in the areas of acquisitions, cataloguing, metadata standards and practices, serials management, integrated library systems and discovery resources, legal research, legal information, librarianship, or legal education consistent with the traditional scholarly roles engaged in by tenure-track faculty and in keeping with departmental, college, and university expectations. Continues intellectual and professional growth through involvement in professional associations, conferences, and workshops.

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