Position: Chief Librarian, Lehman College/CUNY, NYC

[susan voge]

LEHMAN COLLEGE, The City University of New York
CHIEF LIBRARIAN

Responsibilities:
The Chief Librarian is responsible for the overall
administration of the Library and for the development
and support of Library information services to the Lehman
College Community. Other general responsibilities include:
        Providing leadership in the integration of
               traditional Library services with new
               information technology.
        Cost-effectively serving the research,
               education and technological needs of faculty,
               students and staff.
        Bringing an understanding of the Library as a
               vital component of the teaching and learning
               enterprise.
        Participating on team-centered programs focused
               on implementing technologies, policies and
               procedures that enhance the development and
               sharing of knowledge among internal and
               external constituencies.
        Day to day management including preparing and
               administering the fiscal budget of the library
               as well as supervising the staff of
               professionals and paraprofessionals.
 Qualifications:
            The successful candidate must have two masters
            degrees or a doctorate from an ALA accredited
            institution. The preferred candidate should have ten
            years of related experience including supervisory
            and management responsibilities in a research
            Library environment; a record of scholarly and
            professional achievement that will qualify the
            individual for a senior faculty appointment in the
            Library Department; demonstrated expertise with new
            Library technologies; strong interpersonal, written
            and oral communication skills.
Salary Range:
            $52,891 - $86,619, with additional remuneration for
            an administrative designation.

Lehman College is a public, coeducational liberal arts college
enrolling some 9,000 students from 80 countries in over 90
undergraduate, graduate degree and professional programs.
The College's 30-acre tree-lined and safe campus blends gothic
and modern architecture and has been described by the NY Times
as the most beautiful of the CUNY campuses. The Library is housed
in a modern 4-story building equipped with state of the art technology
including an electronic classroom. One hundred additional public-access
workstations will be installed over the next year. The open stacks book
collection contains some 547,000 volumes and 1,300 periodical
subscriptions.  Visit the Library's home page at:
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/library/library2.htm

Letters of application with curriculum vitae and list of
three references should be sent by 2/1/2000 to:
            Professor Linda Keen
            Chief Librarian Search Committee
            c/o Erica Matthews
            Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY
            Office of the Provost - S-377
            250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
            Bronx, New York 10468
  Lehman College/CUNY is an equal opportunity/affirmative
  action/Americans with Disability Act Employer