Research amp Reference Librarian

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Research & Reference Librarian
The candidate provides outreach and reference services and creates, enhances, and furthers services offered to faculty, students, alumni, the local bar, and the public. Provides legal research, reference assistance and instruction. Provides collection services for all legal materials. Creates and promotes innovative services. Serves as a reference librarian at the Panza Maurer Law Library Reference Desk for approximately 16 hours per week. Occasional weekend and some evening reference hours are also required. Conducts workshops and research instruction on legal research topics. Teaches first year law students to cost effectively use Westlaw and Lexis as well as other electronic and print resources. Prepares user guides, bibliographies, and instructional materials for legal topics, and presentations and articles for legal education. Serves as a member of the Panza Maurer Law Library Faculty Liaison program. Creates library displays. Prepares and promotes innovative technology services for library and law school use, assisting law faculty with using these tools to enhance the classroom learning or scholarly communications experience. Serves on local, regional, and national law library related organizations and committees. Performs other duties as assigned or required. Prepares statistical and other reports as assigned. May be asked to train and supervise library-hired student assistants. Advanced knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; database and data entry skills. Should have Juris Doctorate from an ABA Accredited Institution and Masters of Library Science (M.L.S) Degree from an ALA Accredited Library School (if M.L.S. not yet confirmed, degree must be conferred within one year of hire date) and 1-2 years of experience providing reference in a law library. Recent experience with integrated library systems.

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