University of Colorado Denver - Auraria Library Director |
Wednesday, November 09, 2016 12:00 AM |
Title: Auraria Library Director Location: University of Colorado Denver l Anschutz Medical Campus Description: This full-time, University Staff (non-classified) position works closely with faculty, students, and administration from all three institutions in planning, resourcing, implementing, and evaluating library resources, programs, and services. The Director empowers and enables all Library personnel in the decision-making processes through shared leadership principles and practices. The Director inspires and activates an energetic cohort of Library leaders to ensure strategic and tactical alignment of Auraria Library resources with tri-institutional missions. The successful candidate will embrace these essential duties:
Successful candidates will have an intimate understanding of and significant experience in addressing the major challenges facing academic libraries today, including rapid changes in the discovery and access of data, information, and knowledge; creative and effective use of physical space; and, changing roles of academic libraries as places, purveyors of information, supporters of research and teaching, enablers of learning, and creators of knowledge. On the tri-institutional Auraria campus, this requires open communication and consensus building across multiple constituencies with distinct aspirations and diverse goals. The Director joins CU Denver at a time of significant opportunity, with a newly re-invented Library organization in a renovated library facility well positioned to deliver high-impact programs and services. Description of Institution and Library The University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) seeks an innovative, visionary, inspired leader to serve as the University Librarian and Director (Director) of the Auraria Library. The Auraria Library serves three distinct higher education institutions – CU Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver – on one urban campus located in downtown Denver. The position reports to the CU Denver Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Resources and Services in the Office of the Provost. The Library’s 2030 scenario presents bold aspirations for supporting the three institutions’ teaching, learning, research, and service missions where the library is “convener, communicator, creator, collaborator, and connector of innovative spaces for communities beyond the home campus – expanding conservation roles into generative and creative roles.” A comprehensive $32 million facility renovation, scheduled for early 2017 completion, brought interdisciplinary teams together to re-envision organizational outcomes, re-invent service models, and re-purpose facility spaces. With these new initiatives, Auraria Library is cultivating 21st century synergies among educational technology, innovative learning spaces, digital media, digital scholarship, researcher support, research instruction, and public services. Minimum Qualifications Preferred Qualifications • Demonstrated high-level management success in an academic library, with responsibility for operation of multiple departments, including supervisory, planning and budgeting experience at the Assistant/Associate Director/Dean or higher level
• Experience engaging in organizational advancement and communications/marketing in an academic library setting
• A track record of successfully designing, leading or managing the implementation of modern learning technology in a higher education environment
• Demonstrated experience in cultivating shared leadership
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