Assistant Director for Public Services / Legal Research Faculty

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Assistant Director for Public Services / Legal Research Faculty
The candidate manages all aspects of the Legal Information Center’s (LIC) public services, including access, instructional and reference services, to ensure that the LIC provides high-quality information services to University of Florida’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law’s faculty, staff, and students, as well as other users in the university community and the community at large. Oversees access, instructional, and reference services including faculty research support, student programs, curriculum goals, outreach to the great UF community and the public, and assessment of needs and outcomes. Coordinates interdepartmental activities and projects with a focus on optimizing services. Supervises, trains, and evaluates reference librarians and reference specialists. Participates in and provides leadership and supervision of reference services, which include physical and virtual reference services during scheduled reference hours, research consultations for law students and other users, a faculty/librarian liaison program for faculty research support, production and maintenance of research guides, tutorials, reference related areas of the LIC’s website and other tools. Supervises the Access Services Manager and collaborates with them to develop policies for access services functions that will improve customer service and increase accuracy and efficiency in circulation, interlibrary loan, document delivery and stacks management. Oversees legal research instruction including the first year Legal Research curriculum, Advanced Legal Research courses, library instruction and support for undergraduate legal research assignments, and other instructional services for the Levin College of Law community. Oversees outreach and programming for law students, and assessment of student user needs. Teaches first year Legal Research (1-credit) and/or Advanced Legal Research (2-credits) courses in the Fredric G. Levin College of Law. Maintains statistics and reports for access, instructional and reference services. Designs and implements statistical data collection required for external and internal reporting, as well as for programmatic assessment. Assists Associate Dean with LIC strategic planning, budgeting, and establishing short and long term priorities for the LIC. Collaborates with the Head of Collection Development and Associate Dean on major collection development decisions. Other duties within the scope of the job description as assigned by the Associate Dean of Legal Information. Must have a JD from an ABA-accredited law school and master's degree in Library or Information Science (MLS or equivalent degree) from an accredited program. Should have 3+ years of professional experience in an academic law library. Must have a strong service orientation, and be able to oversee and contribute to continual efforts to improve the delivery of legal information. Academic teaching experience; prior supervisory experience preferred.

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