What are the responsibilities and job description for the Law Librarian position at New York State Unified Court System?
The New York State Unified Court System is seeking a Provisional Senior Law Librarian in the Queens County Supreme Court, Civil Term. Under supervision of a District Administrative Judge or a Principal Law Librarian, Senior Law Librarians provide professional library services by implementing policies, performing acquisition functions, original cataloging, and classifying materials using electronic systems based on standard library guidelines.
CLASSIFICATION: PROVISIONAL/ TEMPORARY
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing legal reference services in person, telephone, and online using the Ask A Law Librarian chat service.
- Consulting with judges and legal staff to research moderately complex issues using all available formats.
- Preparing reports and monitoring expenditures of legal research budgets for libraries and chambers collections in the three courthouses managed by this library.
- Conducting formal and informal training sessions on the organization and uses of legal resources.
- Reviewing and evaluating legal research materials in all formats to identify items to be added or withdrawn from the collections.
- Adding new items in the collection according to library classification schedule and established guidelines.
- Constantly monitoring effectiveness of collection organization.
- Implementing and monitoring collection development policies and recommending modifications.
- Preparing informational and instructional documentation to support all types of research.
- Training and supervising subordinate staff, making work assignments, monitoring progress.
- Assisting with cataloging and preserving rare book collections and developing best practices for digitizing library holdings materials.
Qualifications: One year of permanent, competitive class service in the Law Librarian title; or Master's degree in Library Science or Library Information Sciences from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited college or university and two (2) years of professional work experience using library automation, providing legal reference services or involving library administration. This experience must have been in a law library or library information center with a significant legal collection; or Law Degree from an accredited law school and two (2) year of professional work experience using library automation, providing legal reference services or involving library administration. This experience must have been in a law library or library information center with a significant legal collection.
Base Salary: $89,338 $4,920 Location Pay
Please view the full employment announcement at: 27527.pdf
Salary : $89,338
