Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian, Boston College Libraries, Chestnut Hill, MA

Posted October 6, 2023

Description:

The Resource Acquisition and Management Department of the Boston College Libraries invites applications for the newly envisioned position of Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian. This position will establish and lead licensing terms negotiation for the Libraries’ scholarly resources, including journal packages, databases, ebooks, datasets, and streaming media.

The successful candidate will contribute to the re-envisioning of the Libraries’ licensing strategies, and will work closely with library content vendors to negotiate the most advantageous and appropriate licensing terms for new library content and renewals in keeping with Libraries’ core values and strategic directions, university procurement processes, as well as professional and industry best practices.

Key Functions:

leading the review of license agreements for ebooks, streaming media, databases,datasets and journal packages, which currently include more than 6,000 line items and growing, governed by several hundred license agreements
serving as a subject matter expert within the Libraries, consulting on the interpretation of key license uses, such as non-consumptive modes of patron interaction with textural resources, streaming media, and dataset licensing
generating and maintaining a licensing toolkit of inclusive and exclusive licensing terms
serving on consortial license review and negotiation teams with the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL)
serving as an ex-officio member of the Libraries’ Patron Privacy Group and Electronic Resources Group

The Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian reports to the Head of Resource Acquisition and Management, and works in close collaboration with managers of other units within the department and across the Libraries. This position supervises a Resource Acquisition Assistant, whose principal responsibilities include streaming media licensing.

Qualifications and Experience:

MLIS, MLS or MIS and a minimum of 1-2 years experience of related work in libraries, or 1-2 years in a role with a library publisher, vendor, aggregator, consortium, or technology organizations performing licensing review functions
experience with models, practices, and tools used by academic libraries, consortia, or library content vendors for the licensing and acquisition of continuing resources, including experience reviewing and negotiating license terms
understanding of best practices for electronic resource licensing in academic environments
experience with relationship management with internal and external stakeholders including library content vendors and publishers
experience writing library contract clauses and guidelines or policies around library resource use cases preferred

Note: We expect all staff to learn and grow in their jobs, therefore applicants who do not meet all of the preferred qualifications are encouraged to apply.

Please visit https://libguides.bc.edu/employment to apply