Job Details

• Provides leadership for innovative library and academic resource servicesÂÂto support curriculum, instruction, and student success.


• Supports the LLR as a dynamic, supportive hub for all facets of the academic success where students can explore, create, and collaborate.


• Supports and sustains student success by advancing a welcoming, service-oriented environment, and maintaining innovative, forward-looking library learning spaces, collections, and services that advance teaching, learning, research, and creative activity.


• Advocates for equity, multicultural education, and social justice in staffing, curriculum, and services.


• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure resources foster student engagement in academic and cocurricular activities.


• Oversees strategic initiatives like OpenCI and supports affordable instructional materials and accessible technology.


• Manages staff recruitment, development, and evaluation, while ensuring alignment with Academic Affairs' strategic goals.


• Advocates for information literacy as well as writing and multiliteracies, fosters community relations, and promotes innovative pedagogical initiatives, including exploration of learning technologies and artificial intelligence.


• Manages fiscal planning, facilities coordination, and strategic development in partnership with university stakeholders.


• Supports technology integration in teaching, research, and curricular innovation, ensuring a seamless user experience.


• Articulates and guides the strategic contributions of the Library, Centers, and programs in supporting excellence in teaching, learning, research, and scholarship at CSUCI;


• Fosters and promotes good relations and cooperative ventures between the university and community and with other libraries, both public and private;


• Maintains appropriate documentation, and coordinates assessment and reporting of operations;


• Fosters work-life balance and workload management for employees under their direction;


• Serves on University and CSU-wide committees as elected or appointed.

REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION:

Education: American Library Association accredited master €™s degree.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A sustained record of professional and scholarly activity to qualify for appointment at the tenured full Librarian level;


• Minimum of five years of demonstrated management and leadership experience in a collective-bargaining environment including budget administration, personnel management, and faculty retention, tenure and promotion review.


• Experience in, or demonstrated commitment to, advancing diverse populations;


• Strong evidence of a service orientation, superior communication skills, and a collegial leadership style;


• Proven ability to work with professional integrity, and a commitment to building strong relationships that respect diversity of identity, background, and perspectives;

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to effectively manage organizational change for improving efficiencies and services;


• Evidence of innovative initiatives to improve library services, collections, facilities, culture, etc. in support of research and learning;


• Robust commitment to information literacy, and writing and multiliteracy skills;


• Ability to cultivate an organizational climate based upon respect, service, open communication and teamwork;


• Teaching experience in a higher education setting;


• Experience in leading successful assessment/results-oriented planning initiatives;


• Demonstrated internal team-building and mentoring experience;


• An earned doctorate degree from an accredited institution;


• Proven ability to support faculty research in a research-practitioner environment;


• Fluency in English and another language, e.g. Spanish, Tagalog;


• A commitment to recruiting, retaining, mentoring, and actively engaging with underrepresented and underserved populations both on campus and in the broader community.