Library Director

Library Director

Full-Time | Cambridge, MA, US

Date Posted: 5 days ago | Requisition

Salary Range: $55,000.00 To $65,000.00 Annually

Position Type:
Three-Quarter time (~30 hours/week);
Exempt

Reports to:

Director of Academic Operations

Supervises:
On-Campus Student Employees and Graduate Fellows

Longy’s Library Director position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role for the library and library services, supporting a diverse and rapidly growing student body at a school reimagining conservatory education. It will require creativity and imagination in collaboration with our senior leadership. The services and support offered to our community include multi-use educational and artistic space, in-person and online programming, tutoring, and access to technology.

The Library also serves a key role in Longy’s diversity in repertoire initiative, helping faculty and students find, study, and perform music from People of Color, LGBTQIA+, women, and living composers.

The Library Director oversees all functions of the Bakalar Library and library services s person supports Longy's mission to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world through programming, curation of new collections, and support for Longy's in-person and online degrees. This position offers the right candidate an opportunity to modernize Longy’s library and be an active educator who impacts our students’ academic and artistic experience.

• Ensure the library’s collections serve Longy’s performers, composers, and music educators in moving beyond classical music as it is traditionally imagined.
• Support a diverse student population by curating a diverse collection of music (composers, eras, types of instruments, styles of music) and research resources and materials.
• Work across Longy’s staff and faculty departments to lead the use of the library's physical space as a multi-use space including areas for study, meetings, social interaction, and concerts.
• Ensure access to the library's collections and maintain online databases and resources including monitoring and updating the content of the Library website.
• Share Longy’s collections and library programming regularly with the faculty and student communities.
• Expand the library's programmatic offerings to include educational workshops and tutoring services for professional development.
• Assist and advise faculty who use digital learning platforms in designing online course content.
• Support strategic initiatives including the development of non-degree programs, an artist residency program, music and health care, and teacher education, especially focusing on culturally responsive teaching practices.
• Support the curriculum and curricular innovation in Longy’s degree and non-degree programs.
• Remain up to date on industry trends (both library and conservatory curriculum) to drive innovations in programs, resources, and policies.

• Provide timely and accurate assistance to students and faculty including facilitating interlibrary loan options.
• Set and enforce library policies.
• Recruit, train, and supervise on-campus student employees as library assistants.
• Prepare annual operating and capital expenditure budgets for the Library.
• Create and recommend long-range plans for library equipment, operational needs, and desired services.
• Provide research for Senior leadership and program managers.
• Serve on committees as needed.
• Serve as the archivist and historian for Longy’s rich archive of materials.
• Rent and purchase materials as needed for academic courses, orchestra, opera, and choral activities.
• Catalog and classify items for the library’s collection. Develop and maintain cataloging procedures to facilitate effective and efficient cataloging workflow, quality control, and database management practices.
• Provide bibliographic instructions by appointment and in formal classroom settings.
• Oversee the conservation of the collection through a regular program of maintenance, repair, and binding of materials.
• Respond to offers of donated materials for the library. Work with faculty and donors, examine the collections, and make decisions on the merits of taking the…