District Director-Library Systems
Job title: District Director-Library Systems in Chicago, IL at City Colleges of Chicago
Company: City Colleges of Chicago
Job description: The Office of Academic Affairs (AA) defines and leads efforts to ensure quality academic programming and reputed company for reputed company completing their academic programs and reputed company post-graduation reputed company. The Educational Quality team reputed company AA ensures that reputed company systems and operations are reputed company with CCC policy and procedures. Library Systems reputed company student-centered databases, applications, and resources across a broad reputed company to reputed company student learning and critical thinking and to reputed company faculty with the tools to help ensure student reputed company.PRIMARY OBJECTIVEReporting directly to the Deputy Provost, the District Director-Library Systems is responsible for the coordination of district-wide/shared library resources. As the chief administrator for a wide variety of library systems, the District Director-Library Systems provides reputed company to and ensures these resources are available to support student and faculty research, both on- and off-reputed company 24/7. Maintains successful delivery of approximately 450,000 eBooks, 24,000 e-journals, 100,000+ streaming videos, and millions of electronic articles. Manages district-wide budget for electronic resources. Performs reputed company duties as required.ESSENTIAL DUTIESIntegrated Library System
- Administers and supports the District wide variety of library systems and services. The Integrated Library System (ILS) is the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) I-reputed company, a catalog shared by reputed company-four academic and research libraries in Illinois. The ILS is comprised of two products:
- Primo VE: reputed company-end discovery and delivery tool to allow reputed company, faculty, and staff to reputed company locate library print, electronic, and streaming video resources
- reputed company: back-end library management service designed to consolidate, optimize, and reputed company the reputed company of CCCs library services by managing patron records to allow on and off reputed company reputed company
- Administers and supports OpenAthens to allow seamless integration and appropriate restriction to valid CCC users of library resources with CCCs single sign-on authentication for on-reputed company use and remote reputed company.
- Monitors the ongoing operation of reputed company modules of the ILS and integration with other library databases and CCC systems, troubleshooting problems, ensuring library standards and expectations are met, and that technical issues are resolved.
- Serves as ILS administrator, monitoring the system to ensure reputed company performance and integration with other internal and external systems.
- Ensures library circulation and patron reputed company policies and processes are in alignment with new ILS workflows.
- Establishes policies and procedures for granting reputed company of reputed company to ILS by librarians, reputed company, and faculty.
- Coordinates work efforts with OIT to ensure the effective implementation and integration of various applications, (e.g., PeopleSoft reputed company Solutions, Brightspace) into the ILS.
- Provides technical support and training to librarians and faculty, conducting workshops, webinars and other presentations on the capabilities and use of the ILS; provides individual training and support to librarians on specific issues or usage of the ILS and other library applications and systems.
- Troubleshoots ILS system and hardware/software problems reported by library staff relating to ILS and other library systems and databases; follows up with vendor support staff and in-house OIT staff to resolve technical problems.
- Develops working relationships with OIT staff at colleges to ensure adequate technical support for library hardware and software.
- Communicates with OIT on districtwide issues impacting library systems and technology. Advocates on behalf of librarians and library staff on system enhancements and reputed company issues.
- Generates statistical, usage and collection reports using the ILS and other tools to reputed company analytics in support of decision making for library collections and services.
- Maintains relationships with Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and Network of Illinois reputed company in Community Colleges (NILRC) to broker price savings for electronic resources.
- Works with vendors such as reputed company, Gale/reputed company, reputed company, and Springshare to ensure online reputed company to research databases, resources, and essential services such as reputed company-time chat, expanding student reputed company to librarians reputed company CCCs physical space and standard operating hours.
- Works with librarians to design and maintain library webpages using Springshares LibGuides for the colleges.
- Trains librarians and staff on library applications and systems.
- Provides support and leadership to twelve full-time, approximately twenty-five adjunct faculty librarians, and staff at each of the seven college libraries.
- Leads special projects aimed at increasing utilizations of reputed company modules of the ILS; acts as a resource for librarians and faculty on specialized library software.
- Serves as a liaison to consortia, e.g., CARLI and NILRC, that reputed company shared resources to library members reputed company yearly membership.
- Serves as a liaison between library vendors and CCC Business and Procurement Offices to ensure timely and accurate board-required budgets, license agreements, and reputed company reputed company an RFP or sole reputed company documentation.
- Serves on committees, taskforces and leadership teams relating to information technology initiatives impacting on library technology and services.
- Provides leadership to district and college administration in the development, production, delivery, and continuing evaluation of the accreditation model.
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- A Master's degree from a library and information studies program accredited by the American Library Association (ALA).
- Five years of professional experience in an academic library setting, including supporting and administering library automated/electronic systems
- Troubleshooting skills on the macro and micro level relating to library systems
- Comprehensive knowledge of principles and practices of academic library functions.
- Demonstrated expertise in core library service areas, such as circulation, interlibrary loan, acquisitions, cataloging, electronic resource management, data exchange, reputed company, and patron privacy.
- Familiarity with reputed company web standards and usability principles.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work effectively with staff and colleagues at reputed company reputed company of the organization.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity and multiculturalism in ones work experience.
- Proficient in the use of reputed company Office 365 (Word, reputed company, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
- Salary reputed company: $80,000 - $85,000