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Boston College Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.
Job Description
The Resource Acquisition and Management Department of the Boston College Libraries invites applications for the newly envisioned position of Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian . This position will establish and lead licensing terms negotiation for the Librariesâ scholarly resources, including journal packages, databases, ebooks, datasets, and streaming media. The successful candidate will contribute to the re-envisioning of the Librariesâ licensing strategies, and will work closely with library content vendors to negotiate the most advantageous and appropriate licensing terms for new library content and renewals in keeping with Librariesâ core values and strategic directions, university procurement processes, as well as professional and industry best practices.
Key functions include:
Leading the review of license agreements for ebooks, streaming media, databases, datasets and journal packages, which currently include more than 6,000 line items and growing, governed by several hundred license agreements.
Acting as a subject matter expert within the Libraries, consulting on the interpretation of key license uses, such as non-consumptive modes of patron interaction with textural resources, streaming media, and dataset licensing.
Generating and maintaining a licensing toolkit of inclusive and exclusive licensing terms.
Participating in consortial license review and negotiation teams alongside the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), while also serving as an ex-officio member of the Librariesâ Patron Privacy Group and Electronic Resources Group.
The Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian reports to the Head of Resource Acquisition and Management, and works in close collaboration with managers of other units within the department and across the Libraries.
This position supervises a Resource Acquisition Assistant, whose principal responsibilities include streaming media licensing.
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $68,100 to $85,150; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements
MLIS, MLS or MIS and a minimum of 1-2 years experience of related work in libraries, or 1-2 years in a role with a library publisher, vendor, aggregator, consortium, or technology organizations performing licensing review functions.
Experience with models, practices, and tools used by academic libraries, consortia, or library content vendors for the licensing and acquisition of continuing resources, including experience reviewing and negotiating license terms, and understanding of best practices for electronic resource licensing in academic environments.
Expertise in relationship management with internal and external stakeholders, including library content vendors and publishers.
Experience writing library contract clauses and guidelines or policies around library resource use cases preferred.
Note: We expect all staff to learn and grow in their jobs, therefore applicants who do not meet all of the preferred qualifications are encouraged to apply.
Please submit BOTH a cover letter and resume.
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
Tuition remission for Employees
Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Low-Cost Life Insurance
Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
Paid Holidays Annually
Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College Libraries operate in accordance with our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion values statement (library.bc.edu/edi), which is central to our mission. We acknowledge historical, structural, and systemic injustices and are actively working to build a culture that recognizes, values, and empowers all people and provides space for discourse and growth. We expect applicants for this position to demonstrate a commitment to sustaining a respectful, accountable, and intentionally inclusive culture.
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
Tuition remission for Employees
Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Low-Cost Life Insurance
Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
Paid Holidays Annually
Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process. Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .