Emerging Technologies Research Librarian

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Emerging Technologies Research Librarian
Duties: Responsible for providing reference and research services to law school faculty, students, staff, and library card holders. Places particular emphasis on technology based-services for both research and law office use, and maintains web-based content for the library while spearheading digital initiatives and services. Provides reference services to law school faculty, students and staff as well as attorney patrons; involves working weekend, holiday, and evening hours. Assists in the creation of subject-specific research guides, pathfinders, and library user guides. Serves as a Library Liaison for assigned faculty members; assisting faculty with online/electronic research, inter-library loans and other research as needed, maintains bibliographies of faculty materials. Assists in the online promotion of faculty scholarship, student symposia, and student journals. Conducts library tours as requested. Provides individual bibliographic instruction as required. Develop and teach a law technology course and if interested advanced legal research courses in rotation with the other research librarians. Create assignments and course development. Evaluate student performance and class effectiveness. Market classes to law students. Develops and maintains the content, styling, and electronic services provided by the law library’s website. Develops computer-based tutorials, screen casts, and presentations for classroom, and online, usage. Maintains the law school’s institutional repository; including collecting archival materials, uploading student journals, faculty scholarship, events/symposia, historical materials, and other collections. Develops digital initiatives and Library 0 projects. Works extensively with student journal editors; assists in the promotion of online journals, works to increase citation rate and overall journal rankings. Maintains the library’s chat and instant-messaging reference services. Identifies new titles for acquisition, based on assigned subject areas. Collects, records, and makes data-driven decisions related to holdings and use of collections within given subject areas. Collaborates with other law librarians to assess usefulness and quality of library collections. Consults with staff in technical services and information services regarding collection problems. Serves on and/or chairs law school, university, and joint library committees, working groups, and task forces. Participation in local, regional, and national professional organizations. Works with local and national service organizations. Conducts research, and produces scholarship, related to legal research; presents at conferences; publishes research and other scholarly materials. Recommends initiatives and implements changes to improve quality and services. Identifies and determines cause of problems; develops and presents recommendations for improvement of established processes and practices. Maintains contact with customers and solicits feedback for improved services. Maximizes productivity through use of appropriate tools; planned training and performance initiatives. Researches and develops resources that create timely and efficient workflow. Prepares progress reports; informs supervisor of project status; and deviation from goals. Ensures completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all operational functions. Prepares and submits reports as requested and required.

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