Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication

Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication

Ball State University Libraries seeks a dynamic, effective, and visionary leader to head up our Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication team.

• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications personnel, departmental operations, and projects.
• Develop, plan, guide, and assess user‑centered services to support digital scholarship, open access publishing, and research data management.
• Lead copyright activities of the University Libraries, serving as a campus resource regarding fair use and copyright compliance issues; maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of best practices and provide guidance to the community.
• Develop, promote, and assess an inclusive campus‑wide program of open access publishing and digital scholarship to preserve and provide access to student, faculty, and staff scholarship.
• Plan, envision, and develop research data management programs for the University Libraries.
• Lead planning, implementation, and assessment of effective use of platforms and technology tools for digital scholarship, open access publishing, institutional repository, open journal publishing, and research data management.
• Oversee development, implementation, and assessment of educational programming and consultative services for faculty, staff, and students to increase awareness of evolving digital scholarship methods and scholarly communication trends and models.
• Provide consultation services regarding copyright and fair use best practices in scholarly publishing and classroom teaching.
• Develop and maintain a broad network of campus and community collaborators around digital scholarship, scholarly communication, and intellectual property issues; foster dialogue and collaboration with the Office of General Counsel, Sponsored Projects Administration, and Division of Online and Strategic Learning.
• Assign and review work, orient and train staff, and make recommendations in all areas related to supervision, including interview and selection, compensation, discipline, performance appraisal, and training and career development.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the activities of the University Libraries, the university, and the profession through professional organizations, presentations, committee service, publication, and continued professional development.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• ALA‑accredited MLS/MLIS/MIS degree or equivalent combination of relevant academic preparation and experience.
• Two or more years of professional related experience, supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current issues and best practices in copyright law in an academic context; knowledge of scholarly communications issues, practices, and trends in librarianship; knowledge of open access publishing tools and platforms.
• Effective oral and written communication skills; ability to work collaboratively and collegially.

• Additional advanced degrees, ABA‑accredited J.D.
• Academic library experience securing copyright clearance.
• Experience with implementation of scholarly communication and/or digital scholarship programming.
• Experience with project planning in a library or information management setting.

• Candidates must have current authorization to be employed in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.
• Applications must be received by 11/10/2025.