Head of Discovery Services, Simmons College Library, Boston, MA

Posted August 10, 2016

This position will ensure strategic adoption of best practices to provide excellent, innovative and proactive library service in the areas of collection development and access to information for students, faculty, and staff in alignment with the missions of the Library and of the College. This position will provide leadership in developing and maintaining workflows for acquiring and managing library resources and materials in electronic and other formats. This position is responsible for the overall strategic vision and direction of acquiring, maintaining, and assessing library collections. The position oversees the management of staff engaged in acquisitions and receiving, ILL and document delivery, cataloging and metadata creation, e-resource management and web scale discovery, systems and web applications.

The incumbent provides leadership in the areas of Discovery Services, Collection Development, and Collection Management

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