Acquisitions and Technical Services Librarian

JOB SUMMARY: The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) Libraries seeks a service-oriented librarian with demonstrated expertise in acquisitions, purchasing, and technical services to direct these functions within the USCB Libraries. Working under the Director of Libraries, this position supervises technical services personnel, and provides leadership for USCB Libraries’ collection analysis, procurement, material processing, and technical services to meet the evolving needs of the campus community and to coordinate acquisitions, cataloging, systems, and collection management with the University of South Carolina (USC) Thomas Cooper Library.

The Acquisitions and Technical Services librarian will administer the ordering, receiving, and developing workflows to manage the acquisition and cataloging of new materials under the supervision of the Director of Libraries. The chosen candidate will oversee shelf preparation for all library materials in all formats, ensure collection processing and updating through Alma, the online library catalog, manage the processing of materials, including gifts for the library collection, and liaise with USCB’s Purchasing and Accounts Payable units to ensure prompt ordering and payment of invoices. The Acquisitions and Technical Services librarian will coordinate fiscal oversight for the library’s acquisitions budget for the purchase of print books and serials, e-books, streaming, and physical media, special collections, archival material, and other types of items.

The librarian works in collaboration with the Director of Libraries and the head of the Acquisitions and Resource Sharing and Cataloging departments at USC Columbia Libraries to carefully manage payments, budget allocations, cataloging, and discovery of the library’s materials. The chosen candidate works closely with GOBI for purchasing and cataloging, and with the cataloging department at the USC Libraries on occasion to ensure USCB library materials meet accepted copy cataloging standards and directs the physical processing of materials.

Reporting to the Director of Libraries, major responsibilities include:

Please be prepared to upload a cover letter, CV and a statement that reflects your philosophy of librarianship. As the search advances reference letters will also be required. Your references will be sent a link to upload their reference letter. Reference letters should be on official letterhead and signatures are required. Physical and digital signatures are acceptable, typed names will not be accepted.