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Library Director

Longy School Of Music
Full-time
On-site
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$55,000 - $65,000 USD yearly
 
 

 

Job Description

Library Director

 

Status: Three-Quarter time (~30 hours/week); Exempt

Reports to: Director of Academic Operations

Supervises: On-Campus Student Employees and Graduate Fellows

 

Longy’s Library Director position offers an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role for the library and library services, supporting a diverse and rapidly growing student body at a school reimagining conservatory education. It will require creativity and imagination in collaboration with our senior leadership. The services and support offered to our community include multi-use educational and artistic space, in-person and online programming, tutoring, and access to technology.  The Library also serves a key role in Longy’s diversity in repertoire initiative, helping faculty and students find, study, and perform music from People of Color, LGBTQIA+, women, and living composers.  

 

The Library Director oversees all functions of the Bakalar Library and library services at Longy.  This person supports Longy's mission to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world through programming, curation of new collections, and support for Longy's in-person and online degrees.  This position offers the right candidate an opportunity to modernize Longy’s library and be an active educator who impacts our students’ academic and artistic experience. 

 

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

  • Ensure the library’s collections serve Longy’s performers, composers, and music educators in moving beyond classical music as it is traditionally imagined.
  • Support a diverse student population by curating a diverse collection of music (composers, eras, types of instruments, styles of music) and research resources and materials.
  • Work across Longy’s staff and faculty departments to lead the use of the library's physical space as a multi-use space including areas for study, meetings, social interaction, and concerts.
  • Ensure access to the library's collections and maintain online databases and resources including monitoring and updating the content of the Library website.
  • Share Longy’s collections and library programming regularly with the faculty and student communities.
  • Expand the library's programmatic offerings to include educational workshops and tutoring services for professional development.
  • Assist and advise faculty who use digital learning platforms in designing online course content.
  • Support strategic initiatives including the development of non-degree programs, an artist residency program, music and health care, and teacher education, especially focusing on culturally responsive teaching practices.
  • Support the curriculum and curricular innovation in Longy’s degree and non-degree programs.
  • Remain up to date on industry trends (both library and conservatory curriculum) to drive innovations in programs, resources, and policies.

 

Operations

  • Provide timely and accurate assistance to students and faculty including facilitating interlibrary loan options.
  • Set and enforce library policies.
  • Recruit, train, and supervise on-campus student employees as library assistants.
  • Prepare annual operating and capital expenditure budgets for the Library.
  • Create and recommend long-range plans for library equipment, operational needs, and desired services.
  • Provide research for Senior leadership and program managers.
  • Serve on committees as needed.
  • Serve as the archivist and historian for Longy’s rich archive of materials.
  • Rent and purchase materials as needed for academic courses, orchestra, opera, and choral activities.
  • Catalog and classify items for the library’s collection. Develop and maintain cataloging procedures to facilitate effective and efficient cataloging workflow, quality control, and database management practices.
  • Provide bibliographic instructions by appointment and in formal classroom settings.
  • Oversee the conservation of the collection through a regular program of maintenance, repair, and binding of materials.
  • Respond to offers of donated materials for the library. Work with faculty and donors, examine the collections, and make decisions on the merits of taking the materials into the Library.

 

Additional Qualifications

Outstanding oral and written communication skills, energy and dedication, enthusiasm for the value and importance of advanced musical study, superb organizational skills including a meticulous eye for detail, a creative and strategic mind-set, the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, and a sense of humor. 

 

Compensation

Longy offers a competitive salary plus an Open Time Off Policy (OPTO) which includes a generous Family Medical Leave policy of 12 paid weeks. Longy also offers discounts on tuition at Longy, enrollment in Longy’s retirement plan, group health and dental plans, life and long‐term disability insurance, flexible spending account and qualified transportation programs.

 

About Longy

Because the world needs music now more than ever, Longy has reimagined conservatory education. We are leading the seismic shift, by centering music as social change, expanding the world’s understanding of what a life in music can mean. We prepare you to engage new audiences, teach anyone, anywhere — and make a difference with your music.

 

Longy is a degree‐granting institution that serves over 300 undergraduate and graduate students from over 35 states and 25 countries at its Conservatory campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded as Longy School of Music in 1915 by renowned oboist Georges Longy, Longy is a conservatory with a social imperative, providing for all students a distinguished faculty that promotes profound musical understanding and technical prowess, encourages growth of imagination, and fosters inquiry about the role of music and the musician in society. Longy’s mission is to prepare musicians to make a difference in the world.

 

Longy School of Music of Bard College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital or veteran status, or age. Longy values the diversity of its community. 

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