Reference Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Law Library,
Los Angeles, California
Salary: $62,323 to $85,933
Status: Full-time
Posted: 02/03/15
Deadline: 02/06/15
Reference Librarian
Department: Law Library
Rank and Salary: Associate Librarian – Librarian ($62,323 - $85,933)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: February 6, 2015
The UCLA Law Library serves the Law School faculty and students as their basic library and study resource for teaching and research. There are approximately 1,200 law students, approximately 100 full and part-time faculty, and more than 120 Law School staff. The school has a varied and demanding curriculum, highly productive faculty, an extensive clinical and externship program and a co-curricular program that includes an active Moot Court program and 12 law reviews. The Law Library also supplies the legal literature resources for other UCLA faculty, students, and staff with a need for such materials. Heavy use of the Law Library is made by members of the UCLA community and members of the bar.
The Law Library is one of the larger professional school libraries on campus. It currently has a staff of 17 librarians and 16 staff personnel, as well as many part-time student employees. The library offers users an impressive collection that contains over 600,000 bound volumes and documents and over 30,000 microforms. The administration of the Law Library is headed by the Director of the Law Library, who reports to the Dean of the School of Law. The day-to-day functions of the Library have been divided into four sections: Access and Information Services, Bibliographic Services and Collection Management, Scholarship Support and Research Assistant Program, and Reference and Research Services. The Law Library has a beautiful facility that opened in the fall of 1998.
Position Duties
Under the general direction of the Director, Reference & Research Services, Reference Librarians provide a high level of in-depth research assistance to the UCLA Law faculty, staff, and students, including Law School departments and deans. This level of commitment offers the librarian an opportunity to work closely with a number of different individuals and units within the Law School.
In addition, Reference Librarians supervise faculty research assistants, provide reference desk services, prepare research guides, and actively participate in the teaching of legal research sessions throughout the year. Reference Librarians may be assigned an area of concentration or to a project that varies according to library needs and the Librarian's individual talents and interests.
To effectively perform the above duties, Reference Librarians must possess a vast, in-depth knowledge of complex legal resources, covering a variety of jurisdictions in a variety of formats, in addition to a general understanding of and familiarity with research tools and applications in non-law academic disciplines. This position may serve as a liaison to selected deans, department heads, and/or faculty members.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Provide in-depth research assistance to Law faculty, departments, committees, and students,
Prepare research memos, cite checking, and editing on faculty research and scholarly projects,
Serve as library research liaison to selected Law School deans, departments, and faculty,
Assist in the training of research assistants,
Provide ongoing support and supervision to a group of research assistants,
Participate in library orientation programs,
Prepare research guides,
Perform reference desk service,
Teach legal research classes, including RA training sessions, Advanced Legal Research, 1L instruction, and other workshops,
Contribute to the profession and represent the UCLA Law Library in the academic, scholarly, and professional community, and
Serve as a member of the Law Library team and work to further the overall goals of the Law Library.