COPPUL Licensing Coordinator n/a , BC

COPPUL Licensing Coordinatorn/a , BC

Description

The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is seeking a motivated, forward-thinking, and experienced librarian to coordinate COPPUL’s consortial licensing program. This is a full-time, ongoing, remote-work position reporting to the COPPUL Executive Director, and may be filled as a secondment opportunity.

About COPPUL: As the regional academic library consortium for Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia), COPPUL leverages resources, expertise, and infrastructure across our diverse member libraries to support and enhance teaching, learning, student experience, and research on our campuses. We identify areas of intersection across the membership. We embrace opportunities for learning, engagement, and collaboration with new and existing partners. Recognizing our shared commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility as well as Truth and Reconciliation, we diversify our programs and services to provide value across the membership. We work to broadly communicate our strategies, initiatives, and successes and to care for COPPUL to ensure its long-term vitality and impact.

About the role: The COPPUL Licensing Coordinator is a pivotal role providing necessary support to COPPUL member libraries. Consortial licensing is a foundational activity in a time of tight library budgets, collaborative partnerships, and changing user needs. This work intersects with many critical aspects of academic librarianship such as scholarly communications, digital preservation, open access publishing and open educational resources, equity and diversity, privacy, and copyright. Now more than ever, consortial licensing matters, as digital information and scholarly publishing undergo transformational change. The Licensing Coordinator oversees the collaborative licensing activities of the consortium and implements all aspects of licensing from selection and negotiation through to invoicing and payment, including COPPUL’s ConsortiaManager e-resource management system. The Licensing Coordinator works closely with COPPUL members to identify, acquire and manage consortial e-resources, and with the Executive Director and COPPUL’s committees and working groups to establish, maintain, and improve on best practices in licensing and e-resource management.

About the team: The Licensing Coordinator is supported by a small, collaborative COPPUL staff team whose members work together to advance the consortium’s strategic goals. Through a work culture characterized by openness, collegiality and teamwork, COPPUL aspires to provide challenging and rewarding opportunities for professional growth. We cultivate and celebrate relationships with colleagues throughout the COPPUL network and beyond, as we seek to solve collective problems and provide dynamic, collaborative and innovative services to our members. COPPUL prioritizes equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging, and values the health, well-being and work-life balance of our staff.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the operations of COPPUL’s licensing program.
• Manage concurrent product renewals and new offers from publishers and vendors.
• Monitor COPPUL’s consortial licenses throughout the e-resources lifecycle, from selection to invoicing and reconciliation.
• Regularly liaise with COPPUL committees and collections contacts on licensing and e-resource management matters.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with publishers and vendors.
• Negotiate renewals and new licenses that reflect, to the greatest extent possible, the needs and constraints of COPPUL member libraries.
• Collaborate with other regional and national consortia on licensing.
• Maintain license information in ConsortiaManager, and create and update related workflows and processes for greater efficiency.
• Monitor current and emerging issues and trends in licensing, open scholarship and scholarly communications to inform progressive e-resource management practices.
• Engage with and draw from professional and collegial networks to inform practice.
• Advance equity, inclusion, diversity, accessibility and reconciliation in all aspects of work.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications and Expertise

• MLIS (or equivalent) from an ALA-accredited institution.
• Experience negotiating e-resource license agreements. Demonstrated familiarity with acquisitions processes in academic libraries.
• Demonstrated familiarity with established practices and emerging trends in scholarly communications.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage projects to deadline from inception to completion.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with peers and colleagues, including COPPUL members, staff at partner consortia and associations, and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to work in small teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an organized, efficient, thorough and detail-oriented manner.
• Experience advancing equity, inclusion, diversity, accessibility and reconciliation in professional and/or community settings.
• Willingness and ability to undertake occasional travel as required.
• Familiarity with ConsortiaManager would be an asset.

Compensation: Salary range is $80,000 - $90,000 per year, commensurate with qualifications, plus benefits and 9% in lieu of pension. Vacation leave is 20 days annually. If filled as a secondment, remuneration will be adjusted as needed.

Applications should include a cover letter and CV or resume, and may be sent to the COPPUL Executive Director at execdir@coppul.ca. Applications should be submitted on or before April 15th, 2024.

Compensation

Closes: 15 April, 2024