Manager, Monographic Acquisitions

Yale Cancer Center; New Haven, Northern (CT, KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Yale Library seeks a dynamic and collaborative manager to lead monographic acquisitions operations, overseeing orders, approval plans, and invoice processing for formats including ebooks from domestic and international sources.

The role emphasizes leadership, process improvement, and collaboration across Technical Services and partner departments, with responsibility for budgeting and strategic development in scholarly communications.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school or related graduate degree with a minimum of 2 years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of acquisitions practices.
• Experience supervising or directing the efforts of a high-performing team and training staff.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to manage acquisitions operations.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical services processes to non-specialist audiences.

Responsibilities

• Hires, trains, evaluates, and sets annual goals for unit staff.
• Establishes and maintains quality and consistency in workflows for acquisitions and copy cataloging.
• Assesses ordering activity and develops best practices, policies, and procedures for effectively stewarding procurement of collection materials.
• Makes staffing and level-of-expertise recommendations for monographic processing services units.
• Serves as a main contact for approval plan vendors and coordinates with selectors, managers, and vendors.
• Plays active role in projects and initiatives with technical services components as assigned.
• May be required to assist in disaster recovery efforts.
• Fiscal year-end vacation restrictions apply.

Skills

Acquisitions knowledge

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

ALA-accredited library degree

2+ years professional experience

Tools

EDI

EOD bibliographic loads

Vendor APIs

APIs for vendor systems

Job description

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Overview

Yale Library seeks a dynamic and collaborative manager, reporting to the Director of Monographic Processing Services with a focus on monographic acquisitions operations. The successful candidate will guide the unit in the overall management of orders, approval plans, and invoice processing. The work of the unit is comprised of a variety of formats, including e-books, from a variety of domestic and international sources. The person in this position will provide leadership for acquisitions operations across Monographic Processing Services, collaborating closely with managers in the department to ensure seamless workflows and operations between units.

The position works closely with other units in technical services and its partner departments to support and improve acquisitions processes. The incumbent will participate in establishing acquisitions practices in light of the evolving scholarly communications landscape and best practices; recommend and implement improvements to existing tools and workflows; provide technical services expertise internally to library staff and externally to the Yale community and colleagues in the profession. The incumbent will keep abreast of key trends in technical services practice to enable the development of new ideas and innovation. They will analyze trends in publishing and pricing, as well as vendor technologies and software developments, as they relate to library resource fund management, budget analysis, ordering, and invoice processing. In this role, the manager represents the department, Yale Library, and Yale University, in a variety of capacities on committees and other groups, both within and outside of Yale.

This position will be assigned a rank of Librarian 2 to 4 based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can be found at : http://bit.ly/YULRanksPromotions

Required Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of acquisitions practices.
• Demonstrated ability supervising or directing the efforts of a high-performing team and training staff. Strong people-centered leadership and team management ability. Demonstrated ability to lead in a culturally diverse environment.
• Excellent analytical skills. Ability to manage and assess acquisitions operations. Demonstrated ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and complete assignments and projects on time.
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to explain technical services processes and issues to non-specialist audiences.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

• Experience managing library technical services operations, familiarity with a variety of acquisitions models and methods.
• Knowledge of automated acquisitions processes including EDI, Embedded Order Data (EOD) bibliographic record loads, and APIs used for major vendor systems.
• Demonstrated record of leading interdepartmental projects and bringing them to a successful conclusion in a timely fashion.

Principal Responsibilities

• Hires, trains, evaluates, and sets annual goals for unit staff.
• Establishes and maintains quality and consistency in workflows for acquisitions and copy cataloging
• Assesses ordering activity throughout the library. In collaboration with colleagues, develops best practices, policies, and procedures, for effectively stewarding the procurement of collection materials
• Makes recommendations for staffing and level of expertise needed for monographic processing services units.
• Serves as one of the library’s main points of contact for approval plan vendors. Coordinates with selectors and collection managers and strategists on the development of approval plan profiles. Communicates with selectors and vendors about desired changes. With colleagues, develop and monitor technical specifications
• Plays active role in projects and initiatives with technical services components as assigned.
• May be required to assist in disaster recovery efforts.
• Fiscal year-end vacation restrictions apply.

Required Education and Experience

Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school or a related graduate degree and a minimum of 2 years of professional experience.

Yale University assigns ranks to librarian positions based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments (see range assigned to this description as noted in the posting position title). Librarian ranking information can be found at: http://bit.ly/YULRanksPromotions.

Job Posting Date

05/18/2026

Job Category

Manager

Bargaining Unit

NON

Compensation Grade

Library

Compensation Grade Profile

(LIB)

Salary Range

$68,000.00 - $145,250.00

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Staff

Work Model

Hybrid

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks basedon the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

Posting Disclaimer

Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties throughtheir hiring department.

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