Collections Librarian

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Job Description

HGSE’s Monroe C. Gutman Library seeks a collaborative, user-centered Collections Librarian to develop, steward, and promote the Library’s general collections to support the research, teaching, and learning needs of the HGSE community.

Reporting to Gutman Library’s Senior Associate Director, the incumbent brings deep expertise in education and the behavioral sciences subject areas and aligns collection activities to meet curricular needs, faculty and student scholarship, school research initiatives, and evolving disciplinary trends.

The Librarian collaborates closely with several teams in Gutman Library and coordinates regularly with Harvard Library service units and peers in other campus libraries.

Job-Specific Responsibilities

Collection Development (50%)

• Develops collection strategies to support curricular needs, faculty scholarship, school research initiatives, evolving disciplinary trends, and open scholarship initiatives.
• Manages and reviews collection expenditures, including unrestricted, endowed, and gift funds, in collaboration with Gutman Library leadership. Works with HGSE Finance, and Harvard Library Finance on reporting and financial workflows. May include donor communication.
• Coordinates purchasing workflows and fund management for education liaison librarians with program- or subject-based selecting responsibilities.
• Collaborates with the Special Collections Librarian & Archivist and Special Collections Team on purchasing workflows and policies, managing in-kind gifts (including those from faculty retirements), and coordinating the periodic transfer of materials from the general collections into Special Collections or the Harvard University Archives.
• Represents HGSE and Gutman Library at Harvard Library’s Shared Harvard E-Resources (SHAER) meetings and participates in other collaborative and coordinated collection development activities across Harvard Library.