Harvard Depository Manager, Harvard Library, Cambridge, MA

Posted September 2, 2021

Description:

The Harvard Depository is a customer-focused storage facility housing primarily paper-based library collections and records, located approximately 30 miles west of Boston.  Founded by the Harvard University Library in 1986, the HD’s primary service responsibility is to meet the storage & retrieval needs of the University’s libraries, archives, & administrative offices. The restricted-access facility provides a strictly regulated media preservation environment, precise inventory-tracking controls, efficient online retrieval ordering and dependable overnight delivery of materials requested from storage.  The Harvard Depository houses over 11 million items with an average of 417,000 accessions, 218,000 retrievals, and 200,000 refiles annually.

Harvard Library seeks a collaborative professional to manage the Harvard Depository’s day to day workflow, optimizing the operational effectiveness of the building and staff. The Harvard Depository Manager leads and oversees and leads the work of staff engaged in providing efficient services in a warehouse environment, engaging with and providing excellent customer service to a range of stakeholders, internally and externally to Harvard.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Access Services for Collections Management and Resource Sharing Operations, the Harvard Depository Manager participates in the Access Services Extended Leadership team, actively engaging with Access Services managers to develop shared policies that support a consistent user experience.

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