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1. Supports the selection, acquisition, licensing, promotion, and discovery of collections, databases, and information tools and resources that bolster the clinical, educational, and research missions of Yale New Haven Medical Center.  2. Manages a budget of $4.4M and works closely with the medical library's Operations Manager to provide budget projections for library collections and ensure effective management of general account and endowed collection funds . 3. Works with hospital librarians, procurement staff and leadership in the Yale New Haven Health System to negotiate pricing and licenses for clinical point-of-care resources, especially those integrated into the electronic health record. 4. Partners with medical librarians to license and market unique content such as bioinformatics analysis software and storage, clinical materials, nursing and medical educational resources, and biomedical datasets. 5. Utilizes metrics, usage data, and other evaluation criteria to support data-driven collection development decisions and to  increase the efficiency of processes and workflows. 6. Supports medical library e-resources access and authentication solutions. Investigates and helps resolve e-resources access issues from clinical sites. 7. Collaborates with YUL collections, e-resources, scholarly communication, and technical services units and serves on committees. 8. Understands and follows trends related to scholarly communication, publishing, copyright, and emerging information and data sharing, particularly in the health sciences. 9. Collaborates with other librarians to offer programming and educational materials about  scholarly publication trends and to encourage openness and new publishing models. 10. Works closely with medical library users and staff  on questions about publishing, including manuscript submission, navigating copyright policies, and complying with funder mandates.  11. Participates in library planning, committees, and task forces, and engages in campus, regional, and national professional organizations, and collaborative activities. May represent Yale to state, national, and international organizations. 12. May be required to participate with disaster recovery efforts.

Preferred Education:   

Knowledge of health sciences libraries and their evolving roles in medical education, biomedical research, clinical practice, and scholarly communication. Experience with implementing joint licenses between academic entities and health systems.

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:   

Knowledge of health sciences libraries and their evolving roles in medical education, biomedical research, clinical practice, and scholarly communication. Experience with implementing joint licenses between academic entities and health systems.

Required Skill/ability 5:   

Commitment to an inclusive workplace. Ability to engage with diverse audiences (age, gender, nationality, race/ethnicity, profession, sexual orientation, etc.).

Posting Position Title:   Collection Development Librarian, Medical

Required Skill/ability 3:   

Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to solve problems and manage complex workflows. Excellent oral and written communication skills, including public presentations.

Work Week:   Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)

University Job Title:   Collection Development & Scholarly Comm Librarian

Required Skill/ability 1:   

Demonstrated ability to manage a budget and strong Microsoft Excel skills. Demonstrated experience with analyzing usage statistics and transformative agreements.

Required Skill/ability 4:   

Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills; and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, and ambiguous environment.

Required Skill/ability 2:   

Knowledge of the electronic publishing environment and scholarly communication trends. Demonstrated experience with electronic resources management, including license and product negotiations, vendor relations, and collection development and management.

Master's degree in Library Science from an American Library Association Accredited Library school and two years of professional library experience and professional accomplishments, preferable in academic setting.