Team Leader for Processing and the Center for Primary Research and Training

Company: Digital Library Federation
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Team Leader for Processing and the Center for Primary Research and Training
Department: Library Special Collections
Rank and Salary: Assistant Librarian - Librarian ($68,885 - $108,349)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: August 30, 2024
The UCLA Library seeks a creative and collaborative professional to lead its innovative user-centered and mentorship focused processing program.
Position Duties
Reporting to the Director of Library Special Collections (LSC), the Processing/Center for Primary Research and Training Team Leader oversees the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) and Library Special Collections' processing program (LSC). The Lead collaborates across LSC and the Library to enhance, develop, and implement a flexible and iterative user-centered processing program that incorporates mentorship opportunities for students through the CFPRT.

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• Develops and leads a team of professional processing staff and CFPRT scholars; overseeing work, providing feedback, and developing staff specializations as appropriate.
  
• Collaborates with staff to create processing plans, determine appropriate levels of processing, set goals, establish timelines, and evaluate outcomes.
  
• Identifies, develops, and applies strategies that facilitate an access-driven approach to the arrangement, description, and preservation of special collections materials across formats.
  
• Collaborates to develop procedures and workflows and to set priorities that support an efficient, user-centered processing program.
  
• Collaborates to develop techniques, training, and strategies that enable a sustainable approach to processing digital archives.
  
• Reviews finding aids, catalog records for archival collections, and other description to ensure quality and compliance with national and local standards and practices.
  
• Works closely with other LSC staff to establish processing priorities and to increase processing capacity.
  
• Works with campus and community partners to envision, plan, and carry out collaborative projects that ensure ethical and responsible description and processing.
  
• Coordinates public programming and outreach activities featuring students and their work, and organizes relevant learning opportunities for the students.
  
• Collaborates with Development and the LSC Director to identify priorities for philanthropic funding and on donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship; and participates in the development and execution of grant funded projects.
  
• Collaborates with the administrative staff to manage supplies, storage, and workspaces.
  
• Contributes to outreach efforts such as events, exhibits, social media, and other programming.
  
• Participates in departmental and library-wide committees.
  
• Other responsibilities as assigned.
  
  Basic Qualifications
  
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  • ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library or Information Science required at the time of hire; OR Master's degree (or other advanced degree) in Information Sciences or related field at the time of hire and work experience in a library setting.
    
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience overseeing and reviewing processing staff work.
    
  • Demonstrated experience applying efficient and iterative processing techniques in arranging, describing, and preserving archival collections of varying size and complexity, with consideration of holistic stewardship frameworks.
    
  • Demonstrated experience processing digital archives.
    
  • Expert knowledge and demonstrated experience applying library and archival standards and vocabularies, including EAD, MARC, DACS, RDA, and LCSH.
    
  • Experience managing databases and archival content management systems, such as ArchivesSpace.
    
  • Knowledge of preservation and conservation needs of and interventions for special collection materials and spaces.
    
  • Understanding and ability to stay abreast of privacy, confidentiality, copyright and use policies associated with special collections materials.
    
  • Demonstrated experience in generating reports to track and assess processing, user and community engagement, and curatorial goals and priorities.
    
  • Ability to initiate and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and managers, and to represent LSC in a professional manner to relevant constituencies.
    
  • Strong project management skills, with an ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
    
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and time management skills.
    
    Preferred Qualifications
    
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    • Demonstrated supervisory experience that includes training and leading the work of librarians, staff and student assistants.
      
    • Familiarity with the Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries, OCLC's Total Cost of Stewardship toolkit, and other models that promote ethical and iterative approaches to description and access.
      
    • Experience collaborating with Development to identify priorities for philanthropic funding and to provide information for donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
      
    • Knowledge of current issues and trends regarding digital archives, digitization, and digital scholarship.
      
    • Experience working with donors and with Deeds of Gift.
      
    • Reading and writing knowledge of additional languages relevant to our holdings, particularly diasporic languages spoken in Los Angeles.
      
    • Demonstrated experience developing public programming or other outreach initiatives.
      
    • Evidence of professional engagement at local, state or national level.
      
      Application Procedures
      Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply here:
      Applications must include:
      
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      • a cover letter describing qualifications and experience;
        
      • a current resume/vitae detailing education and relevant experience;
        
      • the names and contact information for three professional references, including a current or previous supervisor; and
        
      • a Statement of Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
        
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