FACULTY (Salaried Positions. Vita or resume required.):

ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN/ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, University Libraries.
Full-time, tenure track position to begin January 2010.

Qualifications:
= ALA-accredited master’s degree required by start date.
= Knowledge of and curatorial experience with rare books, historical printed materials, and manuscripts required.
= Must have experience providing research services in an academic setting.
= Demonstrated supervisory and/or project management experience required.
= Familiarity with new and emerging standards and technologies relevant to bibliographic control, preservation and digitization required.
= Experience providing research services in genealogy, and/or special collections, Voyager Integrated Library System, and digitization of special collections materials preferred.
= Experience cataloging rare books and/or other special collections materials preferred.

Responsibilities: Provide public assistance and instruction sessions to library users; participation in donor outreach efforts; identification and application for external funding opportunities; application of cataloging and metadata standards to special collections; development of finding aids to improve accessibility of archives and special collections resources; supervision of library staff and student workers; other duties as assigned by the Dean of University Libraries.

Application Deadline: Postmarked by August 14, 2009.

TO APPLY:
Submit a letter of application, vita, and names, addresses, email and telephone numbers of three references to:

Lisa Hanberry, Archives & Special Collections Librarian Screening Committee Secretary
205 Waterfield Library
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3307.

Email applications will not be considered.

POSTING: http://www.murraystate.edu/indir/hr/jobrpt.htm – FACULTY