Reference & Serials Librarian

Description

Job ID

AF9835 -0504-1889

Position Classification

FT Administrator

Position Summary

• Provide legal reference services to faculty, students, judges, lawyers, and other library patrons.
• Supervise the law library serials process, to include hiring and training student worker help.
• Facilitate communication between legal vendors.
• Teach in the required 1L Legal Research course.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reference & Instruction

• Provide reference services.
• Provide legal research instruction.
• Participate in teaching Legal Research, a required for-credit first-year course.

Technical Services

• Manage the processing of serials materials.
• Communicate with library vendors to resolve billing or access issues.
• Manage the routing of current awareness articles.

Administrative Services

• Supervise and train student workers.
• Participate in collection maintenance.
• Participate in collection development.
• Participate in current awareness research for faculty.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Education - Juris Doctorate & MLIS.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Exhibits a high level of interpersonal skills to understand and solve student issues. Effective at meeting deadlines and satisfying on-demand projects while multitasking.
• Will quickly become proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, the Sierra integrated library system, Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, HeinOnline, and other databases and programs.
• Must be a team player with a willingness to perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements

The job requires repetitively lifting lightweight objects where frequent bending or stooping alternates with lighter activities.

Work Environment

Occasional exposure to objectionable conditions or variations such as those found in variable weather conditions or light industrial settings.

Licenses/Certifications

Will become a member of the American Assn. of Law Libraries (AALL), Michigan Assn. of Law Libraries (MichALL), and Law Librarians of Metro Detroit (LLMD). Will actively participate in association events.

Salary/Pay Information

Commensurate with experience

Anticipated Schedule

To be determined

Employee Benefits

At the University of Detroit Mercy, we continually strive to provide a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package to our valued employees. We offer our employees the following benefits:

• Medical -

o Three health plans to choose from with a large national provider network

• Dental -

o UDM's School of Dentistry FREE to you and your dependents

o Option to purchase additional dental plan through UNUM

• Vision -

o Exams and lenses every 12 months

• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts offered.
• Employee Assistance Program -

o Provided to everyone in your household.

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
• Life and AD&D -

o One times base salary up to a hundred thousand dollars.

• Option to purchase additional life insurance, accident insurance, and/or critical illness insurance
• Tuition Remission Benefit for you, your spouse, and children.
• Retirement Plan -

o UDM provides matches up to 8%

Michigan's largest, most comprehensive private University, University of Detroit Mercy is an independent Catholic institution of higher education sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and Society of Jesus. Detroit Mercy seeks qualified candidates who will contribute to the University's mission, diversity, and excellence of its academic community. University of Detroit Mercy is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer with a diverse student body and welcomes persons of all backgrounds.