Immediately Need Law Librarian for Research Services in Atlanta, GA
Job title: Law Librarian for Research Services
Company: Emory University
Job description: Description
Position Description:
Emory Law, a top-tier law school and the home of the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and service-oriented professional to join our team of 11 professional librarians as a Law Librarian for Research Services. Emory Law is an intimate, collegial, and friendly school located in a residential part of the thriving city of Atlanta. MacMillan Law Library is a welcoming and supportive place to work and includes 20 FTEs, seven of which are dedicated to Research Services. We invite candidates with all levels of experience to apply. This is a full-time hybrid position and is available immediately.
Under the general supervision of the Associate Law Librarian for Research Services, Research Services librarians provide high-quality legal and non-legal research assistance to law library users including students, faculty, members of the local bar, and the general public. This includes providing classroom instruction in a variety of settings ranging from for-credit instruction to one-off sessions, providing scholarship support for law faculty, interacting with a variety of patron groups while staffing the library?s Reference Desk, and supporting and participating in a variety of outreach programs targeting both students and faculty.
Additional Responsibilities include:
- Staffing the MacMillan Law Library?s Reference Desk and assisting users with legal research methods and materials (a few evening and weekend hours may occasionally be required);
- Designing and teaching one to two upper-level, topic-specific Advanced Legal Research courses for inclusion in our robust teaching rotation which includes up to five one-credit courses per semester;
- Working with a variety of student groups ? including faculty research assistants, journal students, international students, and law school graduate students ? to assist with their library and legal research needs;
- Supporting Emory Law?s approximately 35 Tenure/Tenure-track faculty by participating in the Library?s Faculty Services Program which faculty scholarship support as well as some classroom assistance for seminar courses;
- Creating and maintaining online research guides, bibliographies, and other materials that enhance access to legal information;
- Serving on law library and university library committees;
- Engaging in professional development activities, scholarship, and service; and
- Performing other associated duties as required.
- A JD from an ABA-accredited law school (or equivalent) and an MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution or a BA in Law with an MA in LIS from an Accelerated Masters Program (AMP). Candidates who will complete their degrees prior to the start date will be considered;
- Experience conducting legal and non-legal research;
- Strong communication skills; including a high comfort level interacting with colleagues and a wide range of library users;
- Demonstrated ability to work independently within a framework of assigned responsibilities, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively with others.
- Experience providing library reference (or other types of customer service experience);
- Demonstrated success in teaching or public speaking;
- Desire to participate in professional law librarianship activities at regional and national levels; and
- Foreign language knowledge.