The Head of Information Services, under the supervision of the Associate Director, plans, implements and coordinates circulation and reference services including, document delivery, reserves, collection management, delivery of traditional and electronic reference, a faculty liaison program and training for faculty and students; provides leadership, creativity and vision to promote and support the use of technology to enhance teaching, research and library operations; organizes and participates in the evening and weekend reference duty rotation; develops research instruction publications; heads the legal instruction programs and participates in collection development.
The Head of Information Services also teaches legal research in the first and second year LARC program and may teach the Advanced Legal Research course as well as LLM Legal Research.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinates Library’s information service departments of circulation and reference. Supervises Reference and Circulation librarians. Oversees budgeting and planning for circulation functions, document delivery, interlibrary loan, reserves. Directs collection and facility management, coordinates the library hours planning, staffing of Circulation operations.
- Plans, implements and participates in all reference programs, including the Faculty Liaison program and continuously develops training and outreach programs for faculty and students, schedules Reference Desk, generates appropriate statistical reports, coordinates Library tours and training.
- Participates in the legal instruction program including LLM, and LARC, instructs students in the use of computers for computer-assisted legal research, and creates legal research training opportunities for upper-class students, law review members, and other student groups. Implements current instructional methodologies and technologies.
- Assists in developing and coordinating library public relations, generating the Library’s newsletter and blog, creating exhibits, developing tools for user education such as web resources, research guides, and bibliographies.
- Participates in collection development by evaluating and selecting information resources in all formats (print, A-V, electronic).
- Provides evening and weekend reference assistance by participating in evening and weekend reference duty rotation.
- Other duties as assigned by the Law Library Director or Associate Director.
Requirements:
Required:
- J.D. from ABA approved law school; M.L.S. from ALA accredited library school.
- Teaching experience and supervisory experience.
Preferred:
- Significant reference skills utilizing print and electronic sources.
- Five years of experience in research oriented law library, teaching experience and supervisory experience strongly preferred.
- Proficient in traditional and computer-assisted legal research methods and solid knowledge of legal materials including experience with current information technologies.
- Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
- Familiarity with computer applications and communications including Internet.
- Strong service orientation.
- Ability to work independently and as a team member.
- Willingness to participate in professional activities.
Salary Information: Commensurate with qualifications and experience, Range starting at $50,000. Employer will assist with relocation costs.
About: The Ruth Lilly Law Library has 22 staff including 10 librarians serving a law school of 989 students and 48 full time faculty. The law school is part of the Indiana University system and has excellent benefits.
Apply: AALL Career Center.
