Job Description
The Director of Collection Strategies is a member of the UO Libraries’ Leadership Team and has broad responsibilities for ensuring UO’s educational mission, academic priorities, research agenda, and diverse campus community to be supported at the highest level with scholarly resources. Working collaboratively with other UO Libraries leaders and stakeholders, this position is responsible for the overall vision, leadership, administration, and coordination of departmental business and collection strategies, including planning, developing, interpreting, and implementing system-wide policies and procedures for scholarly resources.
The Community
The University of Oregon is one of only two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities and holds the distinction of a “very high research activity” ranking in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO enrolls more than 20,000 undergraduate and 3,600 graduate students representing all 50 states and nearly 100 countries. The University of Oregon is guided by a diversity framework that involves a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion or all students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. In recent years, the university has increased the diversity of its student body while raising average GPAs and test scores for incoming students. The UO’s 295-acre campus features state-of-the art facilities in an arboretum-like setting within the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people. The UO is located in Eugene, a vibrant city of 157,000 with a wide range of cultural and culinary offerings, a pleasant year-round climate, and a community engaged in environmental and social concerns. The campus is within easy driving distance of the Pacific Coast, the Cascade Mountains, and Portland.