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Planning and management of library functions, including strategic planning processes andintegration of library operations into the ASU Libraries system

Faculty responsibilities include planning of curricula in informatics, teaching/developinginformatics courses, graduate student supervising and mentoring, and departmental service

Strategic and operational planning and management of library services, budget, policy andinfrastructure for the Arizona State University Libraries, a multi-campus university serving, atthe time, more than 67,000 students and 4,000 teaching and research faculty.Portfolio includes planning and administration of the University Libraries system as deputyof the University Librarian; Archives and Special Collections; Bibliographic and MetadataServices; the Labriola National American Indian Data Center; Informatics andCyberinfrastructure Services. Oversees four operational departments with complement of ca.160 FTE staff. Participates in University-wide planning efforts for development of researchand instructional technology infrastructure.

Head of the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA), a member of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CESSDA ERIC)

Administration of libraries and information management programs at University CollegeDublin, an urban multi-campus university with more than 34,000 students and 1,700academic staff.Leads strategic and operational planning and administration of UCD Library and theUniversity’s major cultural heritage repositories (Library Special Collections, UCD Archives,the Irish National Folklore Collection, the Irish Dialect Archive); contributes to Universitystrategic planning, participates in administration of University academic and researchprograms through appointments to governance committees and boards; serves as ExecutiveDirector of the Irish Social Science Data Archive, and National Coordinator for the Consortium ofEuropean Social Science Data Archives. Collaborates with the UCD Foundation in fund-raisingactivities. Participates in national and international synergistic activities.

Planning and management of library education, consulting services, research, informatics, andtechnology programs at the Countway Library of Medicine, a 501(c)(3) non-profitcorporation representing an alliance of the Harvard Medical Library, the Boston MedicalLibrary, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. Serves on the Library’s AdministrativeCouncil, ex officio on the Board of Directors, and represents the Library on public service,technology and informatics issues in other University contexts. Provides information andeducational services to a core constituency of faculty, staff and students at the HarvardSchools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health, as well as members of the BostonMedical Library, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and research staff at nineteen Harvardaffiliatedhospitals. Oversees education and reference programs. Oversees all technologyassistedoperations, including development and support of information services, digitalcollections, and technology infrastructure for remote users; licensing, distribution and supportof scientific software applications. Oversees operations of the Research Computing Center, aservice providing expertise in bioinformatics/computational biology to the basic sciencedepartments of Harvard Medical School and their research partners.

Chief administrative officer of the Harvard College Library for Information TechnologyServices

Director of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music, offering seminars and pro-seminars in the history of music and the history of music theory

Management of collections programs for printed books, scores, and electronic media,including materials selection; budget planning, preparation, and administration; projectresearch, planning, proposal writing, and grant administration

Management of a special collections library of rare books and scores, microforms, andfacsimiles: collection development; preservation/conservation of rare materials; supervisionof public services, acquisitions, and cataloguing programs; cataloguing of bibliographicallycomplex manuscripts (9th - 20th centuries) and early music imprints

Responsible for management of a sponsored research project to catalogue all pre-1825 musicmanuscripts in the United States (RISM Series A/II), including: grant writing and awardadministration; cataloguing of bibliographically complex manuscript documents; supervisionof Bibliographic Assistants and data-entry staff; development and administration of datapreparation and database management software

Selection of books and scores; supervision of acquisitions services; budget planning andpreparation; project research, planning, proposal writing, and grants administration

Responsible for cataloguing all recorded media acquired by the Loeb Music Library;responsible for collection development, acquisitions, cataloguing services, and public servicesin the Isham Memorial Library