| Reference and Research Services Director; University of California Berkeley, School of Law; Berkeley Reference and Research Services Director, G. W. McEnerney Law Library at the University of California Berkeley, School of Law (Assistant Law Librarian Rank; $80,800-$145,500 100% time) Law Library at the University of California, Berkeley The Law Library comprises one of the largest law collections in the world. It houses an extensive collection of Anglo-American, international, civil, comparative, and human rights law. In addition, the Law Library is home to the prestigious Robbins Collection of rare and religious materials. The Law Library’s Reference Desk is one of the busiest in the nation, serving a faculty of more than 60, numerous adjunct and visiting professors and lecturers, 900 JD students, 100 LLM students, graduate students from the School of Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and approximately 100 visiting scholars each year. The Reference Desk also supports the Law Library’s Advanced Legal Research course, which is taken by approximately 90 students each semester, and a seminar on international legal research, which is taught each spring, and provides legal research training for a variety of other law school courses. The Reference Librarians also provide assistance to graduate and undergraduate researchers from the UCB campus (including students in the Legal Studies major) and faculty from other campus departments. In addition, the Law Library is a public library, serving a significant number of attorneys, pro se litigants, and members of the public who are engaged in legal research for a variety of purposes. The Law School is working on expanding the breadth of some of the existing research centers and creating new centers, all of which may have an international or comparative law component. The Law School is situated on the beautiful University of California, Berkeley, campus, which is home to a wide variety of libraries, including the Doe Library and numerous subject area and affiliated libraries. Overview of Responsibilities The Reference and Research Services Director works with the Associate Law Librarian and the other departmental directors to function as the library's management team and to participate in all aspects of library administration; including, budget administration, facilities planning, programmatic initiatives, personnel management and technology matters, and assisting in long-range planning for the library. Generally, department directors' responsibilities include the development, implementation and monitoring of their department's programs, services, policies, and procedures as well as organization, allocation and supervision of personnel and fiscal resources in the department and coordinating those programs, services, policies and procedures with those of the other law library departments, programs and sections. The Director has responsibility for overseeing the daily operations of the Reference and Research Services department, which includes supervision of the 5 FTE+ reference librarians and 1 PTE Research Specialist, extensive faculty reference and research services; expanded student outreach and instructional programs (including offering full support for the Advanced Legal Research program in the law school); and collection development functions (the law library has adopted a team approach to collection development and all of the reference librarians actively participate in collection development). The Director is responsible for planning and implementing programs to expand and improve reference services to faculty and students and other library patrons. In addition, Boalt Express, which is the Law Library’s fee-based document delivery service, reports to the Director of Reference and Research. Boalt Express generates more than $100,000 in revenue annually for the law library; the Boalt Express operation, under the direction of the Director of Reference and Research services, also manages the Law Library’s interlibrary loan and paging services. The Director of Reference and Research evaluates and balances the needs of the tenure-track law faculty, assigns and directs work flow among the reference librarians and provides ongoing training and support to librarians working on faculty research questions. The Director evaluates the skills needed for faculty research requests and coordinates the work of the professional librarians needed to complete the requests. The Director is responsible for departmental planning, including space, personnel, budget, statistics, workflow and allocation of workload. In addition, the Director assigns priorities to the work to be accomplished. The Director also provides reference service assisting users in legal research to utilize print, microform, and digital information resources and actively participates in the teaching of legal research classes, including classes for advanced legal research as well as online training and other workshops and classes given throughout the year. The Director and the professional librarians prepare instructional materials and exercises for training classes and other written materials to help facilitate the use of the library and encourage the utilization of available resources. In addition, the Director, with the assistance of the reference librarians, conducts library orientation programs, prepares and edits research guides. The Director of Reference and Research Services works with the Director and Associate Directors of the Law Library to plan for the expansion and improvement of reference services to faculty and students. The Director may be asked to represent the law library on other law school and library system committees and at various meeting and other functions. Experience and Training Required: A JD from an ABA-accredited law school and a graduate degree in librarianship from an ALA-accredited library school or equivalent. Requirements also include successful administrative experience at a high level in an academic law library including a demonstrated ability to manage staff, reference services and management, and strong leadership skills. Candidates must have knowledge of legal bibliography and a good understanding of the scholarly needs of faculty and students. Candidates must also have the ability to balance priorities and meet deadlines; a strong commitment to enhancing service through teamwork; and a proactive approach to library services. This requires the candidate to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, communication, problem-solving, and mediation skills and the ability to provide leadership for and work effectively with library, faculty, students as well as members of the UC Berkeley community. In addition, candidates must have an understanding of contemporary issues facing law libraries and reference services departments. Candidates must be willing to support the School's overall goals and ambitions and to offer the highest level of services in support of the Law School's mission. The Law Library at the University of California, Berkeley is committed to the support and encouragement of a multi-cultural environment and seeks candidates who can make positive contributions in a context of ethnic and cultural diversity. Salary is commensurate with training and experience. A description of UC benefits and compensation can be found at the University of California, Berkeley, Office of Human Resources website: http://hrweb.berkeley.edu. Note that the pay range for Assistant Law Librarian is the same as Assistant University Librarian. Applicants should apply via email (preferable), including a cover letter discussing qualifications, a full resume of education and relevant experience, and three references to:
Kathleen Vanden Heuvel Applicants may also use the above email address and telephone number if they have inquiries about the position. Position is open until filled, but we will begin reading files as of August 1, 2008. The University Of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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