Senior Library Specialist, Benson Latin American Collection, UT Libraries

Job Details

General Notes

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Purpose

• The Senior Library Specialist supports the Benson Latin American Collection special collections unit by providing stacks management including supervising student assistants;
• registration duties including accessioning new collections and stewardshipof exhibition loans; support of public services in the Rare Books Reading Room;

and management of accessioning, tracking, training, location, and registration procedures and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Stacks management : Serve as rare books stacks manager supervising up to six student pages and otherwise ensure that materials are available to researchers in the Rare Books Reading Room;
• oversee rare interlibrary loan scans; create and manage ongoing, large scale stacks projects; help to prepare for class visits and showings for visitors;

maintain shelf lists; request and manage rare materials in offsite storage; and find mis-shelved items.

Collection management and registration : Initial accessioning of incoming collections including working with Development to process deeds of gift, creating preliminary finding aids, rehousing collections, and updating inventory lists.

Act as registrar for exhibition loan requests including coordinating condition reports, coordinating traveling arrangements, and managing loan documentation.

Administrative : Schedule students and professional staff for reference shifts, recruit students, and manage student wages budget.

Order archival and office materials. Escort workers in Rare Stacks.

• Service : Participate in relevant committees, task forces, and councils as relevant.
• Other related functions as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma (or GED) and four years of library, supervisory, museum collections, or logistics experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to communicate with varied populations.
• Ability to interact in a professional manner with faculty, staff, students, researchers, donors, and the public.
• Ability to organize short- and long-term priorities and projects and meet deadlines.
• Ability to successfully work independently and collaboratively.
• Work experience that demonstrates close attention to detail.
• Must be flexible and willing to take on new responsibilities.
• Commitment to excellent customer service and creating a welcoming environment for staff and guests.

Preferred Qualifications

• More than the required experience.
• Experience working in special collections, museum collections, or academic libraries, or coursework in library science, museum studies, conservation, and / or public history.
• Fluency in Spanish.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Reading knowledge of Portuguese.
• Experience working with international populations.
• Experience providing museum, special collections, or library public service.
• Experience supervising college student employees

Salary Range

$46,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office and library conditions.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
• Climbing of stairs.
• Lifting objects, bending, kneeling, walking, standing.
• Lifting and moving up to 40 pounds.

Work Shift

Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. 5 p.m.

Required Materials ()

Resume / CV

• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

During your application, you will be asked the following questions :

• What is your experience working on multiple concurrent projects with competing deadlines and various internal and external stakeholders?
• How would you deal with a student employee that is consistently late to their shifts or unresponsive to communication?
• Describe a time you had a difficult situation with a customer, patron, or coworker. How did you navigate the situation?

What might you have done differently?

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers : You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications.

Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section;

you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.

Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers : As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs.

If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply.

This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume.

In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.

that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility :

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers.

Staff who are promotion / transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility :

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks :

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.