Title: Associate Dean and Fackler Director of the Health Science Center Libraries

Location: Gainesville, Florida

Description: The University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position, Associate Dean and Fackler Director of the Health Science Center Libraries. The Associate Dean and Fackler Director of the Health Science Center (HSC) Libraries is a tenure track faculty position that provides leadership and vision for HSC Libraries. The Fackler Director is responsible for the overall leadership of the HSC Libraries and contributes to the management of the Smathers Libraries as an Associate Dean. The Fackler Director ensures that the HSC Libraries adhere to its mission to serve the six colleges of the University of Florida Health Science Center, and associated centers, institutes, hospitals and clinics, as well as to provide appropriate community services. The HSC Libraries constitute one of the largest health sciences library systems in the Southeast. With libraries located in Gainesville and on the University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville campus (Borland Library), the HSC Libraries provide services and programs to support UFHealth, which includes the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute; the Emerging Pathogens Institute; the Genetics Institute; the Institute on Aging; the Institute for Child and Health Policy; and the McKnight Brain Institute. The HSC Libraries are part of the George A. Smathers Libraries system (see http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/orgchart.pdf). The Smathers Libraries hold over 5,000,000 print volumes, 1,000,000 e-books, 8,100,000 microfilms, 170,500 full-text print and electronic journals, nearly 1,000 electronic databases, 1,300,000 documents and 1,000,000 maps and images.