Hi everyone

Please see this link for details of a vacancy we are currently
advertising: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/bl5002man.shtml. It is an
exciting development to our services which we hope will link more
fully with existing electronic library resources, and especially in
light of Oxford's recent agreement with Google.

Best wishes

Hannah

Manager - Accessible Resources Acquisition and Creation
Unit
Oxford University Library Services

Academic Related Grade 2
Salary Scale: £22,507-29,128 p.a.
Visit our website: http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/libraries/

About the Accessible Resources Acquisition and Creation Unit
(ARACU)

The Oxford University Library Services Accessible Resources
Acquisition and Creation Unit (ARACU) is a new unit which will be
responsible for all OULS’s responses to meeting the needs of
disabled readers, including the provision of equipment (already
being acquired through special funding), maintenance of information
about it and provision of advice on premises. It will acquire or
create resources in formats appropriate to needs, including
audiotape, digital audio books, enlarged photocopies, and scanned
images. It will incorporate and extend the activities of the present
unit, Oxford University Resources for the Blind, which produces
audiotape for visually impaired readers.

The Unit will be located in the premises currently occupied by
Oxford University Resources for the Blind in Ewert House,
Summertown, Oxford, although a change of location within two
years is possible.

The ARACU Manager will be responsible for 1.55 staff currently
employed in Oxford University Resources for the Blind, and for
approximately 80 volunteer readers (equivalent to about 3.5 FTE).
He or she will report to the OULS Head of Service Assessment and
Planning, Michael Heaney and will work in close liaison with the
University of Oxford’s Disability Office.

The Unit will be funded in part by OULS and in part by partial cost
recovery charges for the work it carries out.

About OULS

The University of Oxford’s many libraries contain the largest and
most diverse collections for the support of teaching and research in
any institution of higher education in the United Kingdom. Its library
holdings as a whole are world-class. Because its principal library,
the Bodleian, has been in effect a library of legal deposit for almost
400 years, members of the University and scholars from far and
wide have a reasonable expectation of satisfying a very high
proportion of their library needs somewhere within Oxford’s libraries.

The libraries which together form Oxford University Library Services
(OULS), contain more than 10 million volumes; and, if periodical
parts are included, OULS adds to stock an average of well over
1000 items per day throughout the year. A large proportion of the
library stock will be preserved in perpetuity and a significant
percentage of the legal deposit intake forms a part of the national
printed archive.

Since the appointment of Dr Reg Carr as Director of University
Library Services and Bodley’s Librarian in 1997, significant
progress has been made in the integration of the University’s many
centrally-funded libraries. New integrated structures and
arrangements were approved by the University in February 2000
and a recent review has recommended the acceleration of the
integration process. The Curators of the University Libraries are the
governing body for OULS, which itself forms part of Academic
Services and University Collections, presided over by a Pro-Vice-
Chancellor, Professor Paul Slack.
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Dr Hannah Young
Diversity Officer
Diversity and Equal Opportunities Unit
University of Oxford
University Offices
Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JD
Tel: 01865 280459
Fax: 01865 280300
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