LIBRARY DIRECTOR, BILKENT UNIVERSITY, ANKARA - TURKEY
Position Description:
The Library Director reports directly to the Rector of the University.
The Bilkent University Library consists of the main library and a branch
library on the East Campus. The Library is also responsible for the
technical services of two primary and two secondary school libraries on
the Bilkent campus.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include overseeing staff,
especially with regard to the preparation of in-house training and
professional development programs and annual staff evaluations;
supervising collection development policy, budget preparation and the
decision process; supervising preparation of public relation materials
including management of the library web site. Serving on university
committees when invited by the rector.
Job Status: Full time 40-hour work week with 30 days
annual leave after one year
Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.
Includes furnished campus
housing and private health insurance
Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately
and will continue until the position is filled.
Preferred Starting Date: As early as possible in 2006
Preferred Qualifications:
International library experience highly desirable. Five years of
increasing management responsibility including staff management in an
academic library. Experience in budgeting. Strong interpersonal
skills, including the ability to foster a collegial work environment
that encourages change and innovation; and the ability to interact
effectively and work collaboratively and productively with a variety of
individuals and groups in a complex and rapidly changing environment.
Ability to communicate clearly and knowledgeably, orally and in writing.
The Working Environment:
Bilkent University is a private non-profit English-language institution
founded in 1984 in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, with the purpose
of creating a center of academic excellence. The University has some
11,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs in nine
faculties, two schools of applied knowledge, a pre-enrollment English
preparatory course, and two-year vocational programs in tourism and
certain technical subjects. In publications per faculty member in 2004,
Bilkent University was first among the 77 Turkish universities. Bilkent
was the first private university to be established after a change in the
Turkish Constitution in 1982 and the first university in Turkey to
develop an online library system, now used in thirteen university and
nine special libraries. With a collection of some 375,000 volumes and
online access to more than 30,000 journals, the Bilkent University
Library is a designated library for the receipt of U.S. Government
documents, and a depository for the European Union and the World Bank.
Special collections include the Halil Inalcik Ottoman History
collection, the music and sound recordings collection, and the Turkish
Plastic Arts Archive. The Bilkent Library provides service to the
Bilkent community, Turkish academia and to the public, daily from 8:30
a.m. until 11:30 p.m., 362 days a year. The Bilkent University Library
is a founding and active member of the Anatolian University Libraries
Consortium (ANKOS) and manages its web site. Please see the library web
page for further details (http://library.bilkent.edu.tr).
To apply:
Please submit a letter of application indicating how your background and
experience prepare you for the position, a current curriculum vitae
summarizing education and work experience, and a listing of three
professional references. Contact: Ms Barbara von Wahlde, Search
Chair, Bilkent University Library, 06800 Ankara, Turkey,
[log in to unmask] Fax: +90 312 266 4391.
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Selale Korkut
Head, Art Library
Bilkent University Library
06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
Tel: (90-312) 290 15 35
Fax: (90-312) 266 43 91
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http://library.bilkent.edu.tr/artlibrary.htm
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