For immediate release:
February 2, 2011

For more information, contact:
Mary Jane Brooks
Association of Research Libraries
maryjane@arl.org

ARL Recruits for Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries is recruiting a Program Director to "articulate, promote, and facilitate new and expanding roles for ARL libraries that strengthen their capability to engage support, enable, and enrich the transformations affecting research and research-intensive education" (ARL Strategic Plan, 2010-2012).

The fundamental mission of the position is to develop and implement imaginative and practical strategies that promote and facilitate strategic transformations within and among research libraries, particularly with regard to their role in advancing the research enterprise and research-intensive teaching and learning. This mission is to be pursued in close collaboration with ARL member libraries, higher education and information technology partners, scientific and scholarly societies, and other library organizations.

The Program Director will be instrumental in creatively defining, shaping, and advancing the portfolio for ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) strategic direction taking into account the framework provided by the ARL Strategic Plan and working closely with the ARL Steering Committee for TRL and its subgroups. The ARL Strategic Plan is the central driver that defines the scope of the Association’s work and is periodically reviewed and revised to assure that it is in step with the Membership’s needs.

The Successful Candidate

The Program Director will have experience in engaging with the development of strategic, transformational change within the research library environment. The successful candidate will also be committed to fostering ARL's leadership in promoting and facilitating new and expanding roles for ARL libraries to engage in the changes affecting research and research-intensive education. ARL seeks applicants with an understanding of how the networked digital environment is influencing the research process within different disciplines and shaping both formal and informal learning, and who can offer stimulating ideas and advance an agenda for how research libraries and librarians can most effectively work with diverse communities of researchers, faculty, and students in support of the academic and research missions.

Recruitment

• Minimum salary of $90,000 based on experience and qualifications.
• ARL offers standard benefits including sick leave, 22 days vacation, TIAA/CREF.

Screening will begin February 25, 2011, and will continue until the position is filled. Please email the letter of application, along with résumé or vita, two writing samples, and names/addresses of three references to:

Mary Jane Brooks
Assistant Executive Director, Finance and Administration
Association of Research Libraries
21 Dupont Circle, NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20036

E-mail address: maryjane@arl.org

ARL is an Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Diversity in the Professional Workplace.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.