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Description:
The University of California, Berkeley Library seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and user-oriented colleague as the Systems and Discovery Services Librarian who will be responsible for the development, support, maintenance, and migration of the library’s integrated library system (ILS), discovery services, and catalog. The Systems and Discovery Services Librarian works collaboratively with a wide range of libraries and units to support the functionality of the library’s integrated catalog and the discovery layer. The position works as part of a department that provides services to all UC Berkeley Libraries. This enterprise-wide department is a key component of the UC Berkeley Library’s integrated information technology ecosystem.
The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and teaching facility at one of the nation’s premier public universities. A highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 30,000 undergraduate students, over 11,000 graduate students, and 1,500 faculty. With a collection of more than 12 million volumes and a collections budget of over $18 million, the Library offers access to scholarly resources in all formats and robust services to connect users with those resources and build their related research skills.
This position reports to the Head of the Library IT department and manages a staff of four ILS and metadata specialists. Library IT (LIT), a department within the Library, supports the Library’s mission by providing technical support for the Library including developing, purchasing, and/or supporting all types of hardware platforms and software applications. Areas of current work include an enterprise integrated library system along with the discovery platform and affiliated workflows; scalable digital library system architectures; web services infrastructure; application development; and servers and systems support.