University of California, Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Position in Humanities Collection Development

The UCLA Library offers a CLIR post-doctoral Fellowship (one to two years duration) for a humanities scholar, including the field of history. The position would be based in the Young Research Library (YRL). The collections of the YRL support teaching and research in a wide range of humanities and social sciences disciplines. A number of the specialized research collections enjoy world class ranking, including in the areas of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture, Latin American Studies, and Asian American Studies, to name a few.

The Fellow will focus on the development of print and digital collections for the teaching and research programs in his/her area of expertise. While the Library will consider applicants from the broad range of humanities fields, we particularly encourage applications from scholars with specializations in a non-Western subject and/or language area. The Fellow will also potentially work closely with the Head of Digital Collection Management and Licensing Department, the Head of the Digital Library, and the Head of the YRL Department of Special Collections. The Fellow will collaborate with faculty members and graduate students to analyze, develop, and strengthen discipline-based collections in print and digital formats. The Fellow will also have an opportunity to work on planning and developing the delivery of collection content and information services to humanities and social sciences scholars as part of a major programmatic redesign of the Young Research Library.

Examples of potential areas of concentration in the Fellow’s program are:

The UCLA CLIR fellowship is designed to give an ambitious and focused recent Ph.D. recipient in the humanities a unique and broad opportunity to develop as an information professional and scholar.

Environment

The UCLA Library and the Collections, Research and Instructional Services Department

The Library is in the heart of the University of California, Los Angeles campus which is located in Westwood Village, approximately five miles from the Pacific Ocean at the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains. Ranked among the top 5 academic research libraries in North America, the UCLA Library is comprised of 8 major libraries and 13 library-wide departments and the Southern Regional Library Facility, the remote storage facility for the southern UC campuses, reporting to the University Librarian. In addition, there are 12 affiliated libraries and library units located on the campus. The UCLA Library has a staff of approximately 350 FTE and an organizational structure that includes the use of teams in conjunction with departments. The library collection consists of over 8,000,000 million volumes and over 78,000 current serial titles and an aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. The Library has an annual budget in excess of $33.9 million; more than $10 million supports the acquisition of print and digital material and is a part of the California Digital Library (CDL). The UCLA Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Coalition of Networked Information (CNI), Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Digital Library Federation (DLF), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

The Collections, Research and Instructional Services (CRIS) Department of the Charles E. Young Research Library is composed of area and subject specialists, including government information and cartographic resources, who are responsible for building, managing, and providing access to the research collections in all formats in support of humanities and social sciences research and teaching. CRIS librarians serve the faculty and students in these disciplines by providing high-level reference and research services, in person, via e-mail, and digital reference. The department is responsible for staffing the 1st floor reference desk and the Maps and Cartographic Information Desk on level A. CRIS librarians actively participate in UCLA's Information Literacy Program, taking the lead in the design and delivery of specialized instruction sessions for upper division and graduate level courses. Subject specialist librarians in CRIS work closely together and in cooperation with librarians from other UCLA Library units to meet faculty and student needs. They serve as liaisons to academic departments and research units in their areas of responsibility. Liaison librarians are also responsible for library exhibits, including the faculty case, in the subject areas. CRIS is one of several units in Research and Instructional Services and includes the Arts Library, College Library, the East Asian Library, the Management Library, the Music Library, and a cluster of Sciences libraries.

For further insight into the Library's priorities, see the UCLA Library Strategic Plan 2006-2009, linked here http://www2.library.ucla.edu/about/233.cfm. Additional information about UCLA and the Library are available on the World Wide Web (http://www.ucla.edu/ and http://www2.library.ucla.edu/).

Salary: $48,800 annually, plus standard University benefits, including medical and dental insurance.