Evening​/Weekend Reference Librarian

The Elon University School of Law Library is located in Greensboro, NC. The Law Library attempts to fully meet the educational and research needs of the Elon Law community, including students, staff, faculty, and adjuncts. The Law Library also serves as a source of legal information for the Elon Law alumni base, practicing attorneys in Greensboro, and provides limited services to the general public.

The Reference/Access Services Librarian – Law position is part of the law library staff of seven (7) positions.

Key responsibilities of this position include supervision of the Access Services department and providing reference and legal research instruction.

As the head of the Access Services department, this position plans, organizes, and directs Access Services activities including opening/closing the library, setting library hours (in consultation with the library director), circulation of library materials, managing course reserves, overseeing inter-library loans, and stack maintenance.

This librarian will manage a full-time staff member, the Circulation Paraprofessional. They will also hire, supervise, train (along with the Circulation Paraprofessional), and schedule shifts for student workers.

In addition, this position determines both the circulation and reference schedules, assigning in-person desk shifts as well as virtual reference shifts. The role will also maintain and share shift calendars for both departments with staff and student workers. They will be responsible for collecting and maintaining statistics for both service points.

This role manages all social media accounts for the library. They will serve on the library's Student Engagement Committee to support student experience initiatives in the library.

A large portion of the role requires co-teaching (and occasional individual teaching) in the library instructional program along with three other professional librarians, including the library director. This group creates and updates all library instructional materials. They also serve as reference liaisons to our faculty.

40% - 1. Manages Access Services and schedules all library service points.

• Supervises one full-time staff position, the Circulation Paraprofessional. The paraprofessional position will support the Access/Reference Librarian – Law in all access services responsibilities as needed and appropriate.
• Planning, organizing, updating, and directing Access Services activities including opening/closing the library (updating hours using Lib Cal), setting library hours (in consultation with the library director), circulation of library materials, managing course reserves, overseeing inter-library loans, managing study room reservations, stack maintenance, and maintaining departmental documentation.
• Hiring, supervising, training (along with the Circulation Paraprofessional), and scheduling student workers. Serving as the main point of contact for any student worker or staff Circulation shift-related changes or library coverage issues. Scheduling, updating, and managing library calendars with shift coverage for both Circulation and Reference Desks (including virtual reference). Collecting and maintaining statistics for both service points.
• Actively supporting the student experience initiatives of the law library, specifically through management of the library social media accounts.
• Other access services duties as needed and/or assigned.

25% - 2. Teaches in the Legal Research program and develops instructional material for both credit-bearing and non-credit instruction.

• Teaching first year Basic Legal Research is a requirement of regular job duties. Other teaching may be required as needed. This program uses the co-teaching model, with some opportunities for individual instruction. Co-teaching entails two professional librarians (including the director) sharing classroom instruction and grading responsibilities for a given section of first year Basic Legal Research. Individual instruction opportunities could be informal sessions with a group of students or presentations in other faculty courses.
  
  If further instructional aspirations are desired, they may be…