Description

Summary

St. Thomas University College of Law is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Faculty Services Librarian to serve as the premier research partner and technological strategist for our world-class law faculty. In this highly collaborative role, you will lead the law school’s scholarly communications initiatives—including the expansion of our Digital Commons repository—while building an innovative, "on-demand" research assistant training program. If you are passionate about legal informatics, institutional scholarship, and delivering high-level reference and classroom instruction in a rapidly growing academic environment, this position offers an exceptional platform to shape the future of legal research and faculty scholarship.

Essential Functions

Faculty and Student Services Duties

•       Develop and implement training programs for research assistants in the effective use of library databases and other resources.
•       Develop a coordinated research assistant program to provide faculty with “on-demand” research assistance.
•       Prepare instructional material and training sessions and participate in legal research instructional programs as requested or needed by law school faculty or student organizations. 
•       Assist with collection development with emphasis on non-print material.
•       Keep statistics on faculty requests, reference, special projects, and other assignments.
•       Provide direct support to the Law School faculty for research, materials, and training requests including Canvas, Westlaw/TWEN, LexisNexis, Bloomberg Law, and other law school technologies and resources.
•       Assist faculty with their research needs and scholarship using SSRN, and Scholastica. Keep apprised of new and upcoming faculty publications.  
•       Collect all Law School course syllabi each semester and coordinate with the Law School webmaster to make syllabi available to the STU Law School community.  Collect past exams from willing faculty and likewise make available to the law school community.  
•       Participates in general Reference & Research services as part of regular workflow, including regular shifts at the reference desk.

Scholarly Communications Duties

•       Promote and manage the development and growth of a formalized scholarly communications program including the use of Digital Commons.
•       Promote STU Law faculty publications and facilitate delivery to a larger audience using tools such as Digital Commons or similar.
•       Build and maintain collaborative partnerships related to digital initiatives with faculty, researchers and other campus units.
•       Monitor advancements in scholarly communication, OA, IRs, and related areas and communicate implications to Law School and campus stakeholders.
•       Provide guidance and training on scholarly communication/digital scholarship for the Library, Law School faculty, and students. 

Interlibrary Loan (ILL Duties)

•        Work closely with the Access Services Librarian to ensure proper and timely delivery of Interlibrary Loan materials requested by faculty. 

Other duties

•       Represent the Law Library in local, regional, and national meetings as requested. 
•       Serve on University and/or Law School Committees and participate in University and Law School events as requested.
•       Keep informed of new trends in access services and the law profession.
•       Recommend materials and services to Library Administration based upon current trends in use amongst faculty and students.

Competencies

•       Strong and effective communication skills, both oral and written.
•       Strong supervisory skills with the ability to manage and develop staff.
•       Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work effectively with students and faculty from a wide diversity of background and educational experiences. 
•       Organizational, planning, and administrative skills including the ability to work effectively on broad as well as detailed projects.
•       Ability to work in a network environment including working with an integrated library system.
•       Knowledge and ability to work with legal databases and common law school and educational technologies, and the ability to design library instructional tools.
•       Strong technical skills, interest in technology, and the ability to troubleshoot simple technology problems, failures, or deficiencies- expertise with law school technologies such as TWEN, Lexis Classroom, Canvas, is essential.  
•       Ability to understand library system technology that can be used to improve services, instruction efforts and workflows.
•       Strong service orientation and effective problem-solving skills.
•       Be flexible with work assignments and work hours.

Requirements

M.L.S. from an A.L.A. accredited library school program is required.  

J.D. from an accredited ABA institution is required, though candidates without a JD but with relevant experience will be considered. 

Previous academic law library experience is strongly preferred.