Law Librarian (Provisional), 3631

UCS-23

EMPLOYMENT

OPPORTUNITY
ANNOUNCEMENT

STATE OF NEW YORK

UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM

PLEASE POST
ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 3631

POSITION TITLE: LAW LIBRARIAN JG: 20

LOCATION: 3RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
ALBANY COUNTY AND ULSTER COUNTY

BASE SALARY: $72,191

CLASSIFICATION: COMPETITIVE – PROVISIONAL*

QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in Library Science or Library Information Sciences from an American Library Association

(ALA) accredited college or university and one (1) 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; or Law Degree
from an accredited law school and one (1) 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.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF WORK: Under supervision of a Principal Law Librarian, Senior Law Librarian or other
supervisory court personnel, Law Librarians are responsible for providing professional library service, including legal research
assistance, original cataloging, assistance with acquisitions, library management in some libraries, clerical supervision, and
collection-related responsibilities. Law Librarians provide information about the legal research collection, maintain the collection
according to standard library guidelines, perform bibliographic searches, implement resource sharing and may provide
professional-level direction and assistance to library personnel. Law Librarians operate a variety of library and research
automation systems, participate in electronic reference and technical consortiums. Law Librarians assist higher-level law librarians
in managing large diverse legal research collections in the Unified Court System, or have primary responsibility for operation of a
small, less complex legal research collection that serves a small number of judges. In addition to responsibility for a main body
of legal research material, Law Librarians may have responsibility for other collections, including those in individual chambers, in
one or more separate geographical locations and perform other related library and administrative duties.

ASSIGNMENT: There is one (1) position available in the Albany Law Library and one (1) position in the Kingston Law Library.
Duties include, but are not limited to: consulting with judges and legal staff to identify research alternatives using all available
formats; providing legal reference services in person, by telephone, and electronically; preparing informational and instructional
documentation to support all types of research; reviewing and evaluating legal research materials to identify items to be added to
or withdrawn from collections; designing and implementing systematic evaluations of law library and chambers collections;
managing or assisting in managing the system for maintaining control of the collection; classifying new items in the collection
according to library classification schedule and established guidelines; operating acquisitions system, including bibliographic
searching, order preparation, receipt, payment and reporting, preparing reports and monitoring expenditures from library budget.
This position may also assist with cataloguing and preserving rare book collections and developing best practices for digitizing
library holdings and materials.

GENERAL INFORMATION: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed
by persons assigned to this title. They do not include all job duties performed by employees in the title, and every position does
not necessarily require these duties. Although a position is available and situated at a specific location, the appointee may be
subject to reassignment to any position in the same title in this promotion unit dependent upon the needs of the Unified Court
System. All applications received from this announcement may be used to fill any vacancies in this title that may occur in this
court or agency within the next six (6) months. Position(s) available at the present time: 2 .

APPLICATION PROCEDURES: All interested persons meeting the minimum qualifications are encouraged to submit a UCS-5
Application for Employment form (obtainable from any administrative office in a court building or on the web at
www.nycourts.gov/careers/UCS5.pdf), a resume, and cover letter by email 3jdemployment@nycourts.gov or by mail to:

THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OFFICE
2500 POND VIEW, SUITE 210

CASTLETON ON HUDSON, NY 12033

APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO COMPLETE THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY DATA COLLECTION FORM.

POSTING DATE: October 20, 2026 APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED OR RECEIVED BY: November 17, 2026

The New York State Unified Court System is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, gender (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation,
marital status, disability, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.