Library Executive Director
- Employer
- Louisiana Tech University
- Location
- Louisiana, United States
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Nov 11, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Professional Fields, Library & Information Sciences
- Employment Level
- Executive
- Employment Type
- Full Time
Job Details
The Executive Director provides leadership, strategic and visionary direction, and management for library services, including Prescott Memorial Library. This position reports directly to the Chief Information Officer and coordinates with the Provost .
The Executive Director will- Provide leadership and foster innovation by ensuring that the information resources, services, and library facilities align with the evolving research, teaching, and learning needs of the University.
- Promote and advocate for the Library as a hub for student and faculty success and as an essential resource for the University.
- Participate in the University's strategic planning, assessment, policy formation, and curriculum development as a member of the Council of Academic Deans and the Administrative Planning Council.
- Provide leadership, as Chair of the Library’s Advisory Council, to envision, articulate, and implement collectively how the Library, in compliance with its research intensive institutional mission, will contribute to achieving the University's strategic goals.
- Collaborate with the University's Chief Information Officer and the Provost to enhance Library functions, services, and facilities with digital technologies.
- Collaborate with other University stakeholders to develop and promote open educational resources (OERs) and other information technology applications.
- Collaborate with the directors of other libraries in LOUIS, the statewide library consortium, to improve access to information, and to envision and implement new digital initiatives.
Company
Louisiana Tech University is a four-year selective admissions research university in Ruston, LA awarding bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees.
As a selective-admissions, comprehensive public university, Louisiana Tech is committed to quality in teaching, research, creative activity and scholarship, public service, and workforce/economic development. Louisiana Tech maintains as its highest priority the education and development of its students in a challenging environment within a safe and supportive, diverse community of learners.
Louisiana Tech’s pedestrian-friendly campus centers around the Quad with its shady trees and the Lady of the Mist fountain. Ruston, a friendly southern town of approximately 22,000 is home to parks, lakes, and world-class mountain biking trails.
Louisiana Tech is an economic driver for our region and state, and our campus is a home for new and growing enterprises. This connection to innovation impacts our academic programs and provides job opportunities for our students in fields like cybersecurity and engineering. The traditional core campus of approximately 280 acres connects with the Enterprise Campus, a home for new and growing enterprises and to the heart of Ruston. Louisiana Tech and the City of Ruston continue to work hand in hand to create a healthier and more environmentally responsible community by developing safe pedestrian paths, lighting, sustainable landscaping, bicycle paths and more.
Louisiana Tech University adheres to the equal opportunity provisions of federal and civil rights laws, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.
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