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The Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is seeking a dynamic, innovative Director to provide leadership, vision, and support for the library’s Special Collections and Archives Department. The Director will display an understanding of building, maintaining, and providing access to archives and special collections in a variety of formats.  They will ensure the accessibility of research collections by supervising departmental personnel in processing, preserving, and describing collections according to professional standards and best practices, and in providing research assistance service to library users.

The successful candidate will identify goals and objectives, set policies, and assess departmental operations and services in the context of library and university mission, values, goals, and objectives. S/he will identify and implement new methods of delivering departmental operations and services within a changing technological environment.

The Director will work collaboratively with Dean of Libraries, Institutional Advancement, and Marketing and Communications to perform public outreach and networking activities. They will work closely with donors to identify and acquire unique and rare collections of materials related to the development of the South Texas region and will develop community access to and support for the collection through contacts with and presentations to community members. As with all faculty librarian positions at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the Director of Special Collections and Archives will participate in professional and scholarly activity and will serve on library, university, and professional committees.