Librarian of Lamont Library

Lamont Library
Harvard College Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Librarian of Lamont Library

Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Associate Librarian for Research, Teaching, and Learning for Harvard College Library, the Librarian of Lamont Library is responsible for approximately 45 staff, including 20 professional staff, and leads a management team consisting of managers for Access Services, Collection Development, Government Information Services, Environmental Information Services, Maps and GIS, Morse Music and Media, Numeric Data Services, and Research Services. The Librarian supports and encourages user-focused innovation in the Lamont organization’s education, research, outreach, and collection development efforts, and fosters a collaborative, team-based environment. This leader supports a well-established and successful liaison program and promotes the use of emerging technologies in the work of the staff. The Librarian cultivates collaborative initiatives among the Lamont, Fung, and Quad libraries, other Harvard libraries, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences academic departments and programs such as Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for Geographic Analysis.

The Librarian oversees a strategic planning process for Lamont, actively tracks developments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in Harvard College, and fosters an environment of assessment and planning: develops unit goals; prepares budgets; manages finances; leads the development of Lamont Library’s collections and new programs to reflect changes in the curriculum and to meet changing user needs; works closely with HCL’s Head of Research and Learning Technologies to integrate innovative uses of technology in Lamont’s teaching, research and outreach services; works collaboratively with heads of other HCL libraries and research services units and with the Research, Education, and Outreach Committee to provide integrated HCL-wide support for interdisciplinary teaching and learning; develops programs supporting graduate and undergraduate research, teaching, and learning experiences; participates in strategic planning and identifies priorities for program and staff development; promotes the development, delivery and assessment of user services and programs; serves on Library committees and sits as a member of the HCL’s Senior Management Council; and promotes Lamont Library initiatives within Harvard at national and regional conferences.

Lamont Library supports the undergraduate experience and faculty and graduate-student research and teaching in an innovative environment shaped by user needs. Research-level collections include Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives; international and U.S. government documents, maps, and geospatial data; Morse Music and Media; and social science data. The Library also holds a significant reserves collection and a general collection which support the curriculum and includes the Farnsworth Room with an eclectic leisure reading collection. Lamont is a hub for undergraduates with its Café, Research Services Programs, and newly remodeled study spaces. Lamont supports research and teaching through the librarian liaison and research contacts program. Its librarians participate in General Education, Expository Writing, Freshman Seminars, Junior Tutorials and many other undergraduate programs in addition to supporting the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Organizationally, Lamont includes a Federal Depository Library, the Fung Library, and the Quad Library. For more information: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
ALA-accredited MLS required. Minimum of 10 years experience in academic libraries required. Demonstrated record of leadership in evaluating and implementing innovation and change in library services or programs. Demonstrated experience in heading a library or department and fostering teamwork, collaboration, and creativity among staff. Demonstrated experience in building effective and collaborative working relationships with other library managers, librarians, staff, and other administrators. Demonstrated experience in managing personnel, administering budgets, and developing programs.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
A second advanced degree is preferred. Dedication to staff development and mentorship opportunities in a changing library environment. Social sciences or humanities background and experience desired.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
There are over 80 libraries at Harvard that comprise the Harvard library system, with combined holdings of over 16 million items. More than 11 million of those items are part of the collection of Harvard College Library (HCL), a centrally administered system within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that includes the following libraries: Widener, Cabot Science, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard-Yenching, Houghton, Lamont, Loeb Music, Quad, and Tozzer.

Interested participants may apply to www.jobs.harvard.edu and search using requisition #35677.

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