Iowa University libraries seek to obtain a dynamic, strategic and cooperative director for private groups and archives (Library Director Ranking PLB4/6A). Providing reports to the Assistant Secretary of the University Library (AUL) for distinguished groups, the director will provide the leadership and the vision of the insight to programs, services, operations, group management, and the group of groups and archives of Iowa University. The director oversees a section of about 20 library and archive trustees and 20+ graduate assistants and student staff. It provides leadership, directives, and supervision of multiple warehouses, including women’s archives in Iowa, university archives, and Iowa archives for the forefront.

A successful candidate will be excited about private and archived groups and enthusiastic for the unique role that these subjects play in teaching, learning, research and creative work. They will be an expert in knowing and practicing the construction of archive research groups, manuscripts and rare books in various material and digital forms, adding these groups, and in donor relationships. They will develop cooperative and fruitful relationships with other areas within libraries and form a vision for private groups and supplementary archives of these interests.

The main areas of responsibilities and job duties

Leadership/employees and resource management/financial responsibility

• Providing the leadership and direction of insight to a department of more than 40 employees, including librarians, wealthy governorates, postgraduate assistants, and student employees, which enhances a work environment that adopts the leadership of the team and the values ​​of the announced service for university libraries, cooperation, integrity, creativity, openness, supervision, and respect for differences.
• Typical leadership, provision of guidance, advocacy and support for department employees and enhance professional growth.
• Determine and invite other memorization environments and needs to store groups in close cooperation with care and libraries facilities in the field of preserving libraries and libraries.
• Create and align departments initiatives with library and university strategic goals, supervise the development and evaluation of the program, and manage resources to support the mission of libraries.
• In cooperation with the Secretary of the University Library, AUL for distinguished groups, and the assistant director of development, he sows relations with current and potential donors and identifying opportunities for participation in departments that provide meaningful ways to help donors to achieve their required charitable impact.
• Work in partnership with the Assistant Director for Development to ensure a coordinated approach that focuses on donors in tracking and identifying internal gifts for private groups and archives.
• In consultation with AUL for distinctive groups, it recommends using more than 20 progress and report boxes on the use of more than 20 progress boxes in line with donors and financial libraries.
• It is actively involved in the Operations and Administration Council in Universities Libraries (OMC) and the leadership of the distinguished governorate portfolio directors.
• Inclusion of cooperative initiatives with campus partners, including the Stanley Arts Museum; Five museums. In addition to colleges, schools or university programs and with government and regional partners, including Iowa State University and North Iowa University.

• Search and facilitate new partnerships and opportunities to share libraries with other campus units that are in line with the strategic plan of libraries and management resources.
• Determining relevant grants and other opportunities for innovative work in private groups and archives.

Instructions, consultation, communication and research support

• Providing guidance for special groups, institutions, archives, employees and employees, fulfilling the university’s commitment to teaching, learning and researching the faculty with faculty members on the campus by providing students with exceptional educational experiences by integrating private groups and archives in the courses and providing instructions to teach critical thinking, information literacy and research skills.
• Providing guidance to communicate and directing the exhibitions to interact with libraries, university campus and external partners in compatibility with libraries and university priorities.

Choose, acquire, organize, preserve information resources and services

• Determining the strategic direction for the development of assembly within private groups and archives and supervising the application, taking into account the gaps in filling the gaps in the collection areas and priorities of the project, as well as ensuring complementary compatibility with groups in Iowa state, the ten large academic alliance schools (BTAA), and other relevant institutions.
• Providing guidance and supervision of public research and services.
• Promote rare manuscripts and books that bring together areas outside the scope of other values, with responsibility to direct the group development and assembly management, including advice on index and priority processing.

• Explore new fields for the development of assembly and the opportunities for expansion at the current assembly strengths and enhance the priorities of the current campus, especially by ways to support new curriculum programs, welcomes wider cross clips for the campus community, while working in close coordination with other employees inside and outside the department.
• Through special groups and archive employees, they are reported as major strategists to identify private groups and archives that will be numbered and available.
• I am allergic to gift donors of their kind to ensure the transmission of smooth materials for materials.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are consistent with the best professional practices of libraries and cultural heritage groups.
• In a conversation with employees, overseeing the regular evaluation of policies and procedures and developing strategies to improve employee satisfaction with increased productivity and simplifying the workflow.

Continuous learning and skills development

• Keeping up developments in leading and managing the influential academic library, as well as special groups and archives standards and trends, and applying new rules, interpretations and technologies as necessary.
• Develop leadership skills and maintain its skills, including skills to support the professional development of employees who contribute to their collective work and their cooperative effectiveness as well as to their individual professional goals.
• Knowledge of cultures, languages, materials and other auxiliary topics for groups.

Professional contributions

• Contribute to the profession through service, research, publishing and/or teaching.
• Participation and contributing to relevant libraries, activities and committees at the university level.

Qualifications

Required education:

• Graduate studies certificate in library and information science from ALA, international studies, archival studies, or a related field with a focus on special groups or archive management.

Required qualifications:

• At least six years of gradually responsible experience working with private groups, books or rackets in a research library.
• At least three years of the gradual management and development experience of employees responsible for a similar research or environment library.
• The ability to express a vision of the value of private groups and archives on learning, teaching, research and community participation.
• The ability to enhance teamwork and cooperation environments showed.
• Deep and wide knowledge of best practices in private and archive groups, including groups development, analog and digital material management, and newly born digital materials; Ethical purchase and acceptance of gifts in the period; Keep digital; Archive description; Indexing security special groups; As well as issues of copyright and intellectual property.
• Knowledge and experience with programs to integrate private groups and archives in research, use of curricula, curricula, and community participation showed.
• The experience of working with potential donors to grow gifts from groups and the ability to create and maintain successful donor relationships.
• The experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships and cooperation between libraries, academic departments and university community.
• Oral and writing skills are excellent.
• Strong skills between people and the ability to work successfully in a cooperative environment with a wide range of people including colleagues, officials, students, faculty, graduates and donors.
• The ability to support a welcoming and respectful environment showed a job related to a job, academic and/or community preparation.

Required qualifications:

• An additional professional or academic degree in the field of the relevant topic.
• The semester, certificates, concentrations, or additional degrees (grades) in private groups, archives, book history, or other relevant specializations.
• Success in working cooperatively with university progress employees showed donations, including individual gifts and companies.
• The successful path of development, writing, and grant management.
• Experience with budget and strategic planning showed.
• The basic understanding of the standards of descriptive data and its plans to describe private groups, rare books and archives.
• He showed an understanding of the mission of the Research University, the mission and the functions of a large research library.

App details:

Refer to the job and application announcement link: http://phxc3c.rfer.us/uiowalsor59
Applications are only accepted through Jobs@Uiowa.

In order to be eligible for the interview, applicants must download the following and mark it as “relevant files” when downloading documents:

1. The coverage letter that clearly addresses how to meet all the required qualifications and any desirable qualifications for this position. To ensure the strongest consideration, applicants are encouraged to review all the required qualifications and clarify how each of them meets directly.
2. The current CV

This job announcement will be published until August 17, 2025, and it can be removed from publication and fill at any time after that date. Please call Andrea-rost@uiowa.edu If you have any questions about the situation.

The recruitment salaries scope for this position is $ 75,000 – 120,000 dollars.

Successful candidates will be asked to dismantle any date of self -conviction and will be subject to a criminal background and verification/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested in a subsequent step in the recruitment process.

This position is qualified to obtain remote work on the campus and/or hybrid, although the majority of work time on the campus, and it will require the completion of the work order form when you start your job. For each policy, work arrangements will be reviewed annually, and it must be compatible with The program of remote work and relevant policies and Employee travel policy when working on a distant site.

Equal opportunities/positive employer

Iowa University is the owner of equal opportunities/positive work. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will get into consideration to work free from sweat, doctrine, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including birth and relevant conditions), disability, genetic information, situation as vegetables in the United States, service in the United States, sexual inclination, sexual identity, or association preferences.

People with disabilities who need help or accommodation with the demand or interview can contact human resources/faculty and employees, (319) 335-2660 or fsds@uiowa.edu. For job care jobs at the user interface, please contact the UI’s health care leave and manage deficit on the number 319-356-7543.

Iowa University libraries seek to obtain a dynamic, strategic and cooperative director for private groups and archives (Library Director Ranking PLB4/6A). Providing reports to the Assistant Secretary of the University Library (AUL) for distinguished groups, the director will provide the leadership and the vision of the insight to programs, services, operations, group management, and the group of groups and archives of Iowa University. The director oversees a section of about 20 library and archive trustees and 20+ graduate assistants and student staff. It provides leadership, directives, and supervision of multiple warehouses, including women’s archives in Iowa, university archives, and Iowa archives for the forefront.

A successful candidate will be excited about private and archived groups and enthusiastic for the unique role that these subjects play in teaching, learning, research and creative work. They will be an expert in knowing and practicing the construction of archive research groups, manuscripts and rare books in various material and digital forms, adding these groups, and in donor relationships. They will develop cooperative and fruitful relationships with other areas within libraries and form a vision for private groups and supplementary archives of these interests.

The main areas of responsibilities and job duties

Leadership/employees and resource management/financial responsibility

• Providing the leadership and direction of insight to a department of more than 40 employees, including librarians, wealthy governorates, postgraduate assistants, and student employees, which enhances a work environment that adopts the leadership of the team and the values ​​of the announced service for university libraries, cooperation, integrity, creativity, openness, supervision, and respect for differences.
• Typical leadership, provision of guidance, advocacy and support for department employees and enhance professional growth.
• Determine and invite other memorization environments and needs to store groups in close cooperation with care and libraries facilities in the field of preserving libraries and libraries.
• Create and align departments initiatives with library and university strategic goals, supervise the development and evaluation of the program, and manage resources to support the mission of libraries.
• In cooperation with the Secretary of the University Library, AUL for distinguished groups, and the assistant director of development, he sows relations with current and potential donors and identifying opportunities for participation in departments that provide meaningful ways to help donors to achieve their required charitable impact.
• Work in partnership with the Assistant Director for Development to ensure a coordinated approach that focuses on donors in tracking and identifying internal gifts for private groups and archives.
• In consultation with AUL for distinctive groups, it recommends using more than 20 progress and report boxes on the use of more than 20 progress boxes in line with donors and financial libraries.
• It is actively involved in the Operations and Administration Council in Universities Libraries (OMC) and the leadership of the distinguished governorate portfolio directors.
• Inclusion of cooperative initiatives with campus partners, including the Stanley Arts Museum; Five museums. In addition to colleges, schools or university programs and with government and regional partners, including Iowa State University and North Iowa University.

• Search and facilitate new partnerships and opportunities to share libraries with other campus units that are in line with the strategic plan of libraries and management resources.
• Determining relevant grants and other opportunities for innovative work in private groups and archives.

Instructions, consultation, communication and research support

• Providing guidance for special groups, institutions, archives, employees and employees, fulfilling the university’s commitment to teaching, learning and researching the faculty with faculty members on the campus by providing students with exceptional educational experiences by integrating private groups and archives in the courses and providing instructions to teach critical thinking, information literacy and research skills.
• Providing guidance to communicate and directing the exhibitions to interact with libraries, university campus and external partners in compatibility with libraries and university priorities.

Choose, acquire, organize, preserve information resources and services

• Determining the strategic direction for the development of assembly within private groups and archives and supervising the application, taking into account the gaps in filling the gaps in the collection areas and priorities of the project, as well as ensuring complementary compatibility with groups in Iowa state, the ten large academic alliance schools (BTAA), and other relevant institutions.
• Providing guidance and supervision of public research and services.
• Promote rare manuscripts and books that bring together areas outside the scope of other values, with responsibility to direct the group development and assembly management, including advice on index and priority processing.

• Explore new fields for the development of assembly and the opportunities for expansion at the current assembly strengths and enhance the priorities of the current campus, especially by ways to support new curriculum programs, welcomes wider cross clips for the campus community, while working in close coordination with other employees inside and outside the department.
• Through special groups and archive employees, they are reported as major strategists to identify private groups and archives that will be numbered and available.
• I am allergic to gift donors of their kind to ensure the transmission of smooth materials for materials.
• Ensure that policies and procedures are consistent with the best professional practices of libraries and cultural heritage groups.
• In a conversation with employees, overseeing the regular evaluation of policies and procedures and developing strategies to improve employee satisfaction with increased productivity and simplifying the workflow.

Continuous learning and skills development

• Keeping up developments in leading and managing the influential academic library, as well as special groups and archives standards and trends, and applying new rules, interpretations and technologies as necessary.
• Develop leadership skills and maintain its skills, including skills to support the professional development of employees who contribute to their collective work and their cooperative effectiveness as well as to their individual professional goals.
• Knowledge of cultures, languages, materials and other auxiliary topics for groups.

Professional contributions

• Contribute to the profession through service, research, publishing and/or teaching.
• Participation and contributing to relevant libraries, activities and committees at the university level.

Qualifications

Required education:

• Graduate studies certificate in library and information science from ALA, international studies, archival studies, or a related field with a focus on special groups or archive management.

Required qualifications:

• At least six years of gradually responsible experience working with private groups, books or rackets in a research library.
• At least three years of the gradual management and development experience of employees responsible for a similar research or environment library.
• The ability to express a vision of the value of private groups and archives on learning, teaching, research and community participation.
• The ability to enhance teamwork and cooperation environments showed.
• Deep and wide knowledge of best practices in private and archive groups, including groups development, analog and digital material management, and newly born digital materials; Ethical purchase and acceptance of gifts in the period; Keep digital; Archive description; Indexing security special groups; As well as issues of copyright and intellectual property.
• Knowledge and experience with programs to integrate private groups and archives in research, use of curricula, curricula, and community participation showed.
• The experience of working with potential donors to grow gifts from groups and the ability to create and maintain successful donor relationships.
• The experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships and cooperation between libraries, academic departments and university community.
• Oral and writing skills are excellent.
• Strong skills between people and the ability to work successfully in a cooperative environment with a wide range of people including colleagues, officials, students, faculty, graduates and donors.
• The ability to support a welcoming and respectful environment showed a job related to a job, academic and/or community preparation.

Required qualifications:

• An additional professional or academic degree in the field of the relevant topic.
• The semester, certificates, concentrations, or additional degrees (grades) in private groups, archives, book history, or other relevant specializations.
• Success in working cooperatively with university progress employees showed donations, including individual gifts and companies.
• The successful path of development, writing, and grant management.
• Experience with budget and strategic planning showed.
• The basic understanding of the standards of descriptive data and its plans to describe private groups, rare books and archives.
• He showed an understanding of the mission of the Research University, the mission and the functions of a large research library.

App details:

Refer to the job and application announcement link: http://phxc3c.rfer.us/uiowalsor59
Applications are only accepted through Jobs@Uiowa.

In order to be eligible for the interview, applicants must download the following and mark it as “relevant files” when downloading documents:

1. The coverage letter that clearly addresses how to meet all the required qualifications and any desirable qualifications for this position. To ensure the strongest consideration, applicants are encouraged to review all the required qualifications and clarify how each of them meets directly.
2. The current CV

This job announcement will be published until August 17, 2025, and it can be removed from publication and fill at any time after that date. Please call Andrea-rost@uiowa.edu If you have any questions about the situation.

The recruitment salaries scope for this position is $ 75,000 – 120,000 dollars.

Successful candidates will be asked to dismantle any date of self -conviction and will be subject to a criminal background and verification/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested in a subsequent step in the recruitment process.

This position is qualified to obtain remote work on the campus and/or hybrid, although the majority of work time on the campus, and it will require the completion of the work order form when you start your job. For each policy, work arrangements will be reviewed annually, and it must be compatible with The program of remote work and relevant policies and Employee travel policy when working on a distant site.

Equal opportunities/positive employer

Iowa University is the owner of equal opportunities/positive work. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will get into consideration to work free from sweat, doctrine, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including birth and relevant conditions), disability, genetic information, situation as vegetables in the United States, service in the United States, sexual inclination, sexual identity, or association preferences.

People with disabilities who need help or accommodation with the demand or interview can contact human resources/faculty and employees, (319) 335-2660 or fsds@uiowa.edu. For job care jobs at the user interface, please contact the UI’s health care leave and manage deficit on the number 319-356-7543.