Rita Van Duinen
The Claremont Colleges Library seeks an energetic, innovative, knowledgeable, and productive individual to join its new leadership team as Assessment Librarian. This position offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious, service-oriented professional with strong planning, analytical, communication, and evaluation skills to help transform the library into a vibrant, exciting, and user-driven physical and virtual center for teaching, learning, and research. Reporting to the A.J. McFadden Dean of the Library, and working closely with other members of the leadership team, the successful candidate will have broad responsibility for ensuring that the library further develops a culture of assessment, asserts its value to those it serves, and successfully implements its new strategic plan.
The Assessment Librarian will engage in a wide range of data gathering, analytical, evaluative, and reporting activities that support, further, and sustain the efforts of the library to serve the educational and information needs of the faculty, students, and staff of The Claremont Colleges. The librarian will provide vision, leadership, and oversight for assessment initiatives that inform the library’s planning, priority-setting, and decision-making, and sustain its organizational effectiveness. In collaboration with senior administrators and staff at the library and the colleges, this position develops, facilitates, and implements successful and sustainable assessment programs in order to enhance existing information resources, resources, operations, programs, projects, and physical spaces. The Assessment Librarian helps to document, articulate, and advocate for the value of the library to the colleges’ institutional missions and goals by building upon principles established in the Association of College and Research Library’s (ACRL) Value of Academic Libraries (2010).
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to further contribute to the success of the library through a Campus Liaison assignment in the new Research, Teaching and Learning Services (RTLS) division. RTLS provides an innovative matrix approach to enhancing the user experience through a compelling package of information literacy instruction, research services, selection of information resources, outreach to the colleges, and programmatic activities.
Requirements include a MLIS degree from an accredited ALA program (or equivalent education and experience), and five years of professional experience in an academic library or equivalent professional engagement in assessment and planning in higher education.
Salary is negotiable, full benefits package included. For the full position description and application procedures visit: . Candidates applying by February 20, 2015 will be given first consideration.