About the Position
The Associate College Librarian & Coordinator for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications (ACL) oversees a division of 6 FTE with responsibility for the acquisition, description, processing, and management of library collections. The ACL serves as a member of the Libraries’ leadership team and participates in Libraries’ strategic planning. The ACL leads the overall collections program, discipline-specific responsibility for which is distributed among the subject librarians. The ACL manages the collections budget, generates reports and forecasts, and negotiates licenses for e-resources.  The ACL provides vision and leadership for the Libraries’ open access strategies and supports open publishing among Haverford scholars. The ACL administers Haverford’s repository of faculty publications and develops best practices for showcasing faculty scholarship. The ACL contributes to the Libraries’ research and instruction program by serving as the Economics librarian. The ACL works closely with counterparts at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges to develop shared, mutually-beneficial services for and approaches to collection management activities.

Primary Responsibilities
* Oversee all aspects of the Collection Management and Scholarly Communications division of the Haverford College Libraries (6 FTE plus several student assistants). Functional areas include acquisition/licensing, cataloging/metadata, repository administration, and electronic resource management

* Lead the Libraries’ collection management program, coordinate collection development activities among the Libraries’ subject librarians, manage and allocate collections budget, and conduct e-resource license review and negotiation

* Develop collections budget forecasts and allocations, ensure efficient and proper expenditure of the collections budget, and work with the Librarian of the College on identifying resource needs for annual budgeting process

* Provide vision and leadership for the Libraries’ open access strategies, and provide support for open publishing among Haverford scholars

* Administer Haverford’s repository of faculty publications, develop best practices for identifying and ingesting content, and collaborate with campus colleagues to showcase faculty scholarship

* Serve as the Economics librarian, develop the Libraries’ collection in support of department’s curriculum and research interests, provide classroom and individual instruction to students, and work with faculty on development of student research skills throughout the curriculum

* As a member of the Libraries’ administrative team, participate in the management and operation of the Libraries

* Work closely with library counterparts at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges, with particular emphasis on developing mutually-beneficial services for and approaches to collection management activities