Subject: Job: Head, Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University seeks a qualified individual to lead the Library
of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World [ISAW] is a unique
center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education,
offering the Ph.D. degree through NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and
Science. It has a wider geographic span than other programs that focus
on the ancient world, incorporating not only Europe and the entire
Mediterranean basin, but also the Near East, and Central, South, and
East Asia. In its research and its teaching of doctoral students, ISAW
emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, one that transcends modern
boundaries of nation. It supports scholarship that crosses customary
disciplinary boundaries – art history, literature, archaeology,
history, geography, geology, economics, and sociology, among others –
to create a new intellectual framework for understanding the ancient
world, and to train a new generation of scholars steeped in that
integrated approach.
The ISAW Library supports the research and curricular needs of ISAW’s
faculty, resident and visiting scholars, and graduate students. The
ISAW Library and its staff have been built to suit the needs of
scholars in the 21st century, embracing both traditional and digital
collections and methods, and taking advantage of new techniques for
access, delivery and collection building. The Head Librarian works
closely with the Institute Director, faculty, and Associate Director
for Digital Programs to deliver and enhance information resources and
library services that support the interdisciplinary work of ISAW.
Those interdisciplinary programs also require that the Librarian work
collaboratively with other libraries at NYU and in the New York area,
as well as with digital publishers, aggregators, and catalogers
worldwide, to insure that the ISAW community, both locally and
globally, has access to the broadest possible range of scholarly
content. Such collaboration is also essential in the context of
collections development to ensure that the ISAW Library complements
and extend, rather than duplicates, the extraordinary range of
resources New York’s cultural institutions make available to
researchers.
The Head of the ISAW Library, reporting jointly to the Director of
Collections and Research Services in NYU’s Division of Libraries and
to the Director of ISAW, is responsible for all aspects of the
Library’s operations, including oversight of access and research
services, development of the Library’s print and digital collections,
liaison with other NYU Libraries departments (including technical
services and the NYU Digital Library team), and liaison with ISAW’s
user community. The staff of the Library includes an Assistant Head
and three catalogers. The incumbent will be responsible for the
Library’s close collaborative relationship with other NYU Libraries,
including the Institute of Fine Arts Library on East 78th Street and
the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square. The incumbent
will also maintain close working relationships with other libraries
in the New York area, such as the Library of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia
University.
Reade the rest at:
http://library.nyu.edu/about/jobs.html#ISAW