Head of the John Miller Burnam, UCL Classics Librarian

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Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to 53,235 students, more than 11,000 faculty and staff and 350,000+ living alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

 

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, three straight years of record enrollment, worldwide leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 Conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget stands at $1.85 billion, and its endowment totals nearly $1.8 billion.

About The John Miller Burnam Classics Library

The John Miller Burnam Classics Library is named after a former faculty member whose excellent private library was willed to the university and became the nucleus of the present library in 1921. The collection was greatly expanded through the personal efforts and generosity of a former Chair of the Department and his wife, William T. and Louise Taft Semple. Mrs. Semple later established a trust fund in honor of her father, Charles Phelps Taft, which continues to be the primary support for the acquisition of library materials, thus making the library a major international resource for research in classical studies Today, collection efforts include all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world. Research materials, whether print, electronic, or other formats, cover history, archaeology, language and literature, art, numismatics, science and technology, papyrology, epigraphy, and patristics. The Classics Library also provides extensive coverage in materials on Byzantine and Modern Greece and strong coverage on ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and paleography. Additionally, the library has a significant collection of 19th-century German dissertations and Programmschriften. The library holdings total over 294,000 volumes and currently subscribes to over 2,000 serials and monographic series. The library’s annual growth rate for print materials is 3,000 or more items. In addition, UC library users have access to considerable online resources.

 

Graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars, including Tytus Scholars (granted special fellowships by the Classics Department to come and use the library), regard the Burnam Classics Library as an excellent research facility both because of the collection’s breadth, including many titles that are not widely found in other U.S. library collections, and the fact that materials on all subjects pertinent to Classics are available within this one library, making research as convenient as possible for scholars.

 

John Miller Burnam Classics Library: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/classics.html

Job Overview

The University of Cincinnati Libraries (UCL) seek a dynamic, strategic-thinking, and collaborative leader to fill the position of Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library. The Head of the Classics Library provides leadership for the delivery of responsive, innovative, and high-quality services to the internationally recognized Classics Department, researchers, faculty, and students. The leader will continue to enhance the library’s reputation as a world-class, top-ranking research library for Classics scholars at UC and globally.

 

This 12-month tenure track position directs the work of the Classics Library and staff; cultivates and maintains strong working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and library administration, as well as outside partners; works collaboratively with Classics faculty, librarians, and others to develop and coordinate both print and digital collections and services; serves as an advocate for library users; assists with the development of policies and procedures; actively participates in and supports UCL digital humanities and digital scholarship initiatives, and participates in the successful development of other University of Cincinnati Libraries’ strategic initiatives; and, serves as a member of the Management Council of the UC Libraries.

 

The Head reports to and receives directions from the Associate Dean of Collections. They cultivate a strong, positive working relationship with the Classics Department and especially the library committee, to ensure the needs of the faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars are being met.

Essential Functions