UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
Policy & Procedure Manual
SECTION: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND RELATIONSHIPS SECTION II
DATE: /86, 6/00, 02/09
SUBJECT: Director of the Library
I. Primary Purpose of the Position The Director of the Library oversees all aspects of Merrill library, including student service, faculty collaboration, electronic information resources, and the advancement of information literacy. In cooperation with other university officials, the Director of the Library formulates library and information policies, procedures, regulations, goals, and assessment. II. Essential Duties 1. Preparing budget requests and overseeing expenditures; 2. Preparing statistics, reports, surveys, self-studies, and analyses of library services; 3. Making recommendations to the Vice President for Academic Affairs concerning library staff levels, appointments, and terminations; 4. Managing and supervising library staff and student workers; 5. Evaluating library staff, facilities, and services; 6. Ensuring that ADA, EEO, and other federal, state, and university regulations are followed within the library; 7. Preparing and executing plans for equipment and facilities maintenance and development; 8. In cooperation with other UM System Library Directors, planning for and implementing enhancements to existing library technology; 9. Maintaining communication and collaboration with other university offices, faculty, students, committees, and the community; 10. Collaborating with library directors at other colleges and universities as appropriate and useful; 11. Selecting and procuring library capital equipment, including software and hardware in collaboration with Information Technology, to enhance services and library operations; 12. Establishing priorities for future library development, and seeking internal and external partners and funding sources, including grants, to advance the operations of the library; 13. Developing the collections and selecting materials for inclusion, through cooperation with faculty, based upon selection policies; 14. Stewarding and expanding access to electronic information resources, and guiding students and other users in their effective and appropriate use; 15. Determining procurement and donation policies and methods in cooperation with other UM System campuses and with the Business Office; 16. Insuring that collections are organized in a logical, accessible and appropriate manner; 17. Evaluating and weeding collections, in consultation with the faculty; 18. Providing direct reference and research assistance to library patrons; 19. Collaborating with faculty in advancing student information literacy and understanding of the use of library and information resources in scholarship, including providing detailed library instruction for classes; 20. Devising and distributing library handbooks, electronic resource guides, journal lists, subject guides and other printed and on-line materials; and actively communicating with the campus community, via the web and other means, concerning resources and services; 21. Registering and assisting community patrons; 22. Providing professional expertise and assistance to area librarians, library boards, and other information professionals as feasible; 23. Develop and monitor operational goals and objectives, to be measured by performance standards established annually in consultation with the VPAA and president; 24. Staying current with developments in library science, information literacy, and best practices; 25. Performing other allied duties as assigned by the Provost and President.
