The Ethnomusicology Archive seeks applications/nominations for the position of Ethnomusicology Archive Librarian.

Description of Institution and Library
One of ten University of California campuses, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is located in Westwood Village, approximately five miles from the Pacific Ocean near Santa Monica. Comprised of the College of Letters and Science and 11 professional schools, the 419-acre campus features 174 buildings, including the Center for Health Sciences. UCLA has more than 6,300 faculty and academic staff and approximately 26,000 employees. Founded in 1919, UCLA offers 118 undergraduate degree programs and 200 graduate programs and has more than 24,800 undergraduates and 10,800 graduate students. Academic excellence, faculty distinction, and a comprehensive curriculum are hallmarks of UCLA, which is a member of the Association of American Universities. Among the faculty are five Nobel Laureates, nine National Medal of Science winners, seven MacArthur Grant winners, and 52 Guggenheim Fellows. UCLA is California’s largest university and is a model for public institutions of higher education. As the 10th largest employer in the region, UCLA generates almost $9 in economic activity for every $1 state taxpayers invest in UCLA and generates an annual $6 billion economic impact on the greater LosAngeles region.

Ranked among the top 10 academic research libraries in North America, the UCLA Library is comprised of 8 major libraries and 13 library wide departments and the Southern Regional Library Facility, the remote storage facility for the southern UC campuses, all of which report to the University Librarian. In addition, there are 12 affiliated libraries and library units located on the campus. There are approximately 125 librarians on the campus, and the UCLA Library has a staff of approximately 350 and approximately 600 – 700 student employees. The Library has an organizational structure that includes the use of teams in conjunction with departments and units. The library collection consists of more than 8 million volumes and more than 78,000 current serial titles and an aggressively expanding electronic resources collection. The Library’s annual budget is in excess of $33.9 million? more than $10 million supports the acquisition of print and digital material, and the library is part of the California Digital Library. The UCLA Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

One of the affiliated library units at UCLA, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, established in 1961, is the third largest ethnographic-recording based sound recording collection in North America. The collection includes both non-commercial field recordings and commercially produced recordings of traditional, folk, popular, and art music from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the Americas. The Archive is an administrative unit of the Department of Ethnomusicology. The Ethnomusicology Archive materials include master copies of 16,000 LPs, 500 45s, 5,000 78s, 2,000 cassettes, 2,000 compact discs, 20,000 reel tapes, 1,000 audiovisual recordings, and 500 wire spools. In addition to audiovisual recordings, the collections include 1,100 scores, 6,000 slides/photos, 250 dissertations/theses, 120 linear feet of manuscripts (McPhee, Kunst, Ellis, East Asian), 40 serial titles, and 300 books. Including preservation and listening copies, the Archive holds over 100,000 sound recordings, filling approximately 5,000 linear feet.

The Ethnomusicology Archive Librarian is one of two librarians in the Archive. Both librarians report directly to the faculty Director of the Ethnomusicology Archive.

The individual selected will be responsible for duties in the following areas:

• Digital Initiatives: Designs and implements Archive digitization projects. Digitizes sound recordings, audiovisual recordings, paper documents, and photographs, using a variety of digitization hardware and software (e.g. soundcards, scanners, ProTools, and Photoshop). Plans, constructs, and maintains online finding aids and websites with audiovisual components. When necessary, enters descriptive, structural, and technical metadata into electronic finding aids. Maintains working knowledge of the significance and structure of metadata schemata, thesauri, finding aids, and mark-up languages (e.g. Dublin Core, the Ethnographic Thesaurus, EAD, HTML, and SGML). Works with collectors of field recordings in processing deposits, digitizing recordings, and making their collections accessible.
• Development: Proactively researches and identifies potential grants and other funding sources for the Archive. Writes, assembles, and submits grant applications that further the Archive's goals. Monitors grants that have been awarded to the Archive ensuring compliance with timelines for expenditures and fulfillment of all other requirements. Proactively solicits the deposit of new collections into the Archive and acquires permissions, contracts, deeds of gift, and information from collectors about the cultural, historical, and technical nature of collections.
• Student Training: Provide advice and expertise to students and patrons in the archival aspects of research practice and public ethnomusicology. Collaborate with Ethnomusicology Department faculty in the preparation and realization of a course in audiovisual archiving, administered to both undergraduate and graduate students in ethnomusicology and other fields.
• Reference: Meets with patrons, analyzes questions, suggests search strategies, and evaluates resources from the general, special and/or reference collections regardless of format. Responds to reference inquires by telephone and written communication and assists students, faculty, visiting researchers, and the public in the use of Archive collections. Offers information literacy sessions for both undergraduate and graduate students.
• Outreach: Conceptualizes and participates in unique outreach initiatives, such as radio broadcasts, live performances, and community partnerships. Serves as the editor of the Archive's quarterly newsletter, which involves writing and soliciting articles as well as posting the newsletter on the Archive's website. Makes original audio and audiovisual recordings for deposit into the Archive. Works with patrons and collectors in repatriating copies of unique sounds recordings to pertinent individuals.
• Professional Development: Stays informed of developments in audiovisual recording technology, archival studies, copyright policy, preservation and development, and professional ethics, applying those findings to the care and promotion of the Archive's collections. Thinks and acts creatively to improve all aspects of the Archive's operations.

Required Qualifications

• ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library or Information Science OR significant graduate level coursework toward such a degree OR equivalent education and experience (subject expertise combined with professional library education and/or experience).
• Knowledge of digital library technologies, standards, issues, and trends.
• Experience with HTML, Flash, and/or similar website development tools and web design techniques.
• Demonstrated proficiency and capabilities with personal computers and software, the Web, and library-relevant information technology applications and ability to use hardware/software for reference, research, and instruction.
• Working knowledge of standard computer office applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint or other productivity software.
• Successful fundraising/or grants experience. Ability to generate creative ideas for fundraising.
• Excellent organizational, time, and project management skills and ability to organize work and set priorities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work creatively, collaboratively, and effectively both as a team member and independently and to promote teamwork among colleagues.
• Commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment and workplace and ability to work with a diverse student and faculty population.
• Capacity to thrive in the exciting, ambiguous, future-oriented environment of a world-class research institution and to respond effectively to changing needs and priorities.
• Commitment to professional issues, demonstrated through strong interest in local or national committee work, research, publication, etc.

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to read, analyze and or perform music.
• Academic training in ethnomusicology or related discipline.
• Graduate-level courses or experience in archival studies, especially multimedia archives.
• Knowledge of Dublin Core, LCSH, the Ethnographic Thesaurus, EAD and SGML.
• Participation in relevant archival, information technology, and ethnomusicological professional organizations and associations at the regional, national, and international levels.
• Experience with audiovisual media, preferable with audiovisual archiving.
• Experience working in archive.

Salary and appointment level based on experience and qualifications.

• Assistant Librarian Rank ($40,008 – $44,736)
• Associate Librarian Rank ($44,736 – $66,756)
  
• Librarian Rank ($66,756 – $85,740)

General Information
Professional librarians at UC are academic appointees and are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel. UC has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other benefits. Relocation assistance is provided.

Appointees to the librarian series at UC shall have professional backgrounds that demonstrate a high degree of creativity, teamwork, and flexibility. Such background will normally include a professional degree from an ALA-accredited library and information science graduate program. In addition to professional competence and quality of service within the library in the primary job, advancement in the librarian series requires professional involvement and contributions outside of the library, university and community service, and scholarly activities. Candidates must show evidence or promise of such contributions.

Anyone wishing to be considered for this position should apply to

Eve Bailey
Recruitment and Retention Manager
UCLA Library
Library Human Resources
11617 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575.

E-mail applications are encouraged and can be sent to jobs-hr@library.ucla.edu. Applications should include:

• a letter of interest describing qualifications and experience?
• a current resume/vita detailing education and relevant experience? and
• the names, phone numbers, and email addresses or at least 3 professional references, including a current or previous supervisor .

UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks applications and nominations from women and minorities. UCLA seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA-compliant employer. Under federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally authorized to work in the United States as established by providing documents specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Employment is contingent upon completion of satisfactory background investigation.
Visit the UCLA Library Employment Opportunities Web site at
http:// www2.library.ucla.edu/about/employment.cfm.