About
Assistant Librarian for Economics
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is an urban research and academic health science university with 22 schools and academic units. IUPUI is located in downtown Indianapolis, a comfortable and affordable mid-sized city. IUPUI enrolls more than 29,000 students. The vision of the IUPUI University Library is to be the innovative leader among urban libraries. It has a staff of approximately 90 and a budget in excess of $9 million.
Business Librarian
The IUPUI University Library seeks a creative, energetic and service oriented individual to serve as the business librarian at the rank of Assistant Librarian. Reporting to the Team Leader for the Professional Programs Team, this librarian will be responsible for the library collection development to support the curriculum of the Kelley School of Business; teaching library research skills to business students; providing reference and research assistance to IUPUI students, faculty, staff and Indiana residents.
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BudgetThe library director should prepare, justify, and administer a library budget that is
appropriate to the library's objectives. The budget should meet the reasonable expectations
of library users when balanced against other college needs. The library should utilize its
financial resources efficiently and effectively. The library director should have authority
to apportion funds and initiate expenditures within the library budget and in accordance with
college policy. The budget should support appropriate levels of staffing and adequate staff
Administration
The library should be administered in a manner that permits and encourages the most
effective use of available library resources. The library director should report to the
president or to the appropriate chief academic officer of the college. There should be a
standing library advisory committee. The responsibilities and authority of the library
director should be defined in writing. If there are branch libraries, they should be
administered by the library director in accordance with the ACRL Guidelines for Branch
Communication and CooperationCommunication is essential to ensure the smooth operation of the library. Communication
should flow from all levels of the library: from the director to the staff and
from the staff to the director. The library should have a regular mechanism to
communicate with the campus.Library staff should work collaboratively and cooperatively
with other departments on campus. A special relationship should be encouraged
between the library and information technology staff in providing access to electronic
FacilitiesThe library facility should be well planned; it should provide secure and adequate
space, conducive to study and research with suitable environmental conditions
for its services, personnel, resources and collections. The library's equipment
should be adequate and functional.
StaffThe staff should be sufficient in size and quality to meet the programmatic and service needs of its primary users. Librarians, including the director, should have a graduate degree from an ALA-accredited program. In addition, there may be other professional staff who will have appropriate training, experience, or degrees. All library professionals should be responsible for and participate in professional activities. The support staff and student assistants should be assigned responsibilities appropriate to their qualifications, AccessAccess to library resources should be provided in a timely and orderly fashion. Library collections and the catalog for accessing them should be organized using national bibliographic standards. A central catalog of library resources should provide access for multiple concurrent users and clearly indicate all resources. Provision should be made for interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing agreements, access to virtual electronic collections, 
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