Indiana University seeks an experienced Executive Director of University Collections who will have broad responsibility for ensuring the appropriate stewardship of Indiana University’s collections, consistent with the university’s teaching, research, and service missions. The incumbent will establish close partnerships with directors and managers of all IU collections and will facilitate collaborative relationships among collections and across all campuses.
The Executive Director will work with the Dean of the IU Libraries to utilize existing infrastructure and staff expertise in the areas of collection management, discovery, digitization, preservation, and technology, and access to conservation-level environments to bring more consistency across the IU collections.
S/he will work closely with the IU Libraries, collection managers, faculty, university and campus leadership, and other members of the university community to develop a strategic vision for IU’s collections system-wide, including criteria for evaluating existing and proposed future collections. The Executive Director will collaborate to ensure for each collection: a clear and coherent focus that is consistent to the university’s teaching, research, and service missions; professional management, housing, curation, and cataloging; robust accession and deaccession policies; appropriate funding, including robust and strategic external grant funding; broad accessibility to researchers and instructors at IU and other institutions and, when appropriate, the public; and that they have in place, and periodically review, long-term strategic and short-term operational management plans designed to accomplish these objectives.
The successful candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to communicate effectively with faculty and staff across multiple disciplines and the ability to work collaboratively and build consensus.
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