Missouri State University Libraries announces a new position in Resource Management & Discovery (RM&D)—

the Content Strategist position. This new role will serve alongside the Director of RM&D to form the nucleus of a new content management initiative that Meyer Library is slowly beginning to implement. Director of RM&D, Derek Moser, says “[t]he Content Strategist is the first personnel piece to this larger content management puzzle that we’re trying to put together here. In late May we announced our new Journals Access List—a tool for communicating the titles we are adding and cancelling via our subscription services to departmental faculty—through the library’s liaison program. Couple that with this new personnel piece, and we get just a little bit closer to establishing the infrastructure we need to develop relevant and up-to-date collections that meet the needs of the students, staff, and faculty that we serve.” 

 

To aide in the formation of this new content management infrastructure, the Content Strategist focuses on monographic sub-collections in the library, working with the Director of RM&D, library liaisons, departmental faculty of the sub-collection’s primary subject area, and any other relevant personnel that can help assess the merit of the sub-collections being maintained. This level of maintenance includes deaccessioning (weeding), accessioning (purchasing materials), and aiding in the processing of purchased materials. An exemplary model of this type of work is already going on in the library via the efforts of Paige Harp, the current Coordinator of Educator Resources. Due to Harp’s successful contributions at maintaining the educator resources sub-collection, Moser has asked Harp to fill this new Content Strategist position.

 

Paige’s new role as Content Strategist begins July 1, 2023. The Content Strategist is situated in RM&D in the 007 suite, located on the lower level of Meyer Library. Due to Paige’s office relocation educator resources will be a self-service sub-collection of the library as of July 1.