The Oklahoma State University Library seeks creative personnel with a passion for both learning and teaching who are eager to drive their own projects, innovate, and take on challenges. The library's leadership team must be able to articulate and lead change. Associate deans, department heads, and initiative directors are expected to help library faculty and staff transition smoothly by embracing, advocating for, and communicating about change.

"Effective leadership is a mix of knowledge, skill, inspiration, a passion of purpose and an essence of care and joy."

Roy Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed, July 24, 2019

When recruiting individuals to join our leadership team, we look for individuals who:

• inspire trust
• can affect organizational change in positive ways
• work well with students, staff, faculty, administration, alumni and donors
• can foster a collaborative environment that is welcoming to all
• respect contributions from library staff and faculty, board members, and the OSU community
• create an atmosphere of enjoyment in the work to be done, so employees look forward to their work
• are interested in helping all library personnel build careers, gain new skills, and advance
• are willing to make tough personnel decisions while retaining empathy with individuals affected by those decisions
• can be trusted to hold confidences while generally being open and transparent about operational processes, goals, and activities
• have a broad understanding of library services and are open to change
• embrace land-grant institution values and goals
• are advocates of open access and fair use
• have a sense of humor
• are willing to take leadership roles in state and national professional organizations supporting the practice of librarianship in a technology-rich environment
• are excited about the future of libraries

(Updated March 2026)