What are the responsibilities and job description for the Acquisitions Coordinator position at Southern Utah University?
Job Title: Technical Services Librarian
The Technical Services Librarian is responsible for managing the process of acquiring new library materials, tracking collection development budgets, supervising student employees, and performing other technical services/resource sharing related duties as required by the supervisor.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process orders for new library materials, including creating purchase orders or paying with a university purchase card as necessary, and tracking orders through receiving and payment processing.
- Serve as the primary point of contact with vendors, publishers, consortia, university departments, and library faculty/staff for print and electronic resource acquisitions.
- Track budgets of library liaisons and individual departments, keeping library faculty apprised of budget use and ordering deadlines.
- Manage the life cycle of electronic resources, including trials, acquisition, license and price negotiation, access management, renewals, and cancellations.
- Support library acquisitions by providing information such as costs, publishers, and catalogs to library faculty selecting new materials for their liaison areas.
- Work with the collection development librarian in receiving and processing in-kind gifts items to the library.
- Coordinate and facilitate library book sales.
- Interview, hire, and supervise student employees.
- Produce reports and maintain statistics in support of library acquisition budgets and management as needed.
Requirements:
- A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
- Broad computer experience, including demonstrated knowledge of computer technologies (spreadsheets, online ordering, acquisitions databases, etc.) and automated library systems.
- Demonstrated good communication and human relations skills, with the ability to work well with faculty, staff, and students.
- Attention to detail and accuracy in transcribing essential information.
- Knowledge and/or experience of basic accounting procedures.
- Completion of a university-level collection development course or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous library experience or coursework.
This is a 11-month contract position contingent on funding. Southern Utah University does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, disability status, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, military status, veteran status, or other bases protected by applicable law in employment, treatment, admission, access to educational programs and activities, or other University benefits or services.
