DIRECTOR USMA LIBRARY
What you'd do
About the Position: The U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY is an academic institution located in the Hudson River Valley, 50 miles from New York City. The historic site is the oldest continuously occupied military post in America. West Point is a self-contained city with housing, a Department of Public Works, libraries, hospital, fire department, chapels, and restaurants. Employees have access to Eisenhower Hall Theater, Hudson Valley's performing arts center, and recreational facilities.
Major duties
Lead USMA Library's performance including archives, special collections, and digital services to meet West Point's current and future operational requirements. Partner with faculty to equip cadets with information fluency, archival research, and digital literacy to foster impactful scholarship, lifelong learning, and effective leadership. Provide and maintain elite academic, archival, and special collection resources to fully support the curriculum, scholarship, and institutional mission. Align library services, archives, and physical/digital collections with the curriculum to meet the research needs of cadets, faculty, and staff. Partner with donors and advancement teams to accept library, archival, and special collection material gifts on behalf of the Superintendent. Oversee the USMA Archives National Archives and Records Administration (NARA Record Group 404), ensuring proper stewardship, preservation, digitization, access to historical materials and institutionally significant materials. Deliver prompt, effective digital and onsite library and archival services to support study, scholarship, historical research, and intellectual development. Serve as administrative faculty and teach a course within your academic discipline or area of professional specialty.
What you need to qualify
Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens This is a full-time term appointment in the excepted service not to exceed 3 years. Term appointments may be extended beyond the initial term. As a term employee you will be eligible for medical insurance, life insurance, retirement dental and vision. You will be eligible to earn annual leave and sick leave. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must (a) hold a bachelor's degree or higher that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, OR (b) possess a combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in education, or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study described above. SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTORS / KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Applicants will be evaluated on the following: 1) Academic Accomplishment (Master's preferred) in Library (M.L.S) or information Science (M.L.I.S) or a related field. 2) Demonstrated ability to teach courses within the appropriate academic discipline of specialty. 3) Demonstrated ability to direct a large-scale academic library and archival operation; integrated strategic planning, facility oversight, and multi-tiered budget execution to align with institutional priorities. 4) Ability to contribute meaningfully to service activities at the institutional, professional, and national levels. 5) Demonstrated expertise of the current higher-education, library, and archival landscape, including emerging technologies, digital preservation, scholarly communication, and rapidly evolving digital literacies such as generative artificial intelligence and AI literacy.
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