Associate Law Library Director

Job Details

Job Location:

MIAMI GARDENS, FL 33054

Position Type:
Full Time

Under the direction of the Law Library Director, this staff member will be primarily responsible to oversee the overall functioning of the Law Library with direct supervision over the heads of all Law Library functions and staff. They will assist the Law Library Director on all administrative library workflow matters and responsible for the administration of the Law Library in the Director’s absence.

• In collaboration with the Law Library Director, provide strategic guidance on how the law library can be most effective in teaching, research, and providing services to the College of Law, the University, and other constituents.
• Assist in developing the law library’s mission, vision, and values, to support the College of Law’s mission and strategic plan as well as the University’s mission and strategic plan.
• Assist with the development of all law library policies.
• Assist the Director in library administration and coordination of interdepartmental activities within the library.
• Supervise the law library in the director’s absence.
• Implement and oversee the law library’s human resources policies, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation and training. Oversee and coordinate Law Library staff vacation requests and absence reports. Direct the hiring of student assistants, interview and participate in the selection of assigned staff; conduct performance appraisals and suggest professional development opportunities in accordance with university policies and procedures.
• Assist the Director in coordinating all facilities management services and issues dealing with the Office of Physical Plant and all telecommunications needs with the Law School Administration.
• Coordinate Law Library membership in the different cooperating consortia, professional organizations, or any other groups to which the Law Library belongs to.
• Maintain and provide information and assist with preparing reports for ABA, SEFLIN, SACS, Department of Education, and other accrediting agencies.
• Monitor the expenses of the faculty book account in consultation with the Faculty Services and Scholarly Communications Librarian and communicate with the faculty when necessary.
• Recommend the organizational structure, staffing and functional responsibilities of the law library.
• Assist the director in communications with library vendors and Collection Management Services to ensure proper resources are made available.
• Assist the Director with strategic planning and long-term initiatives with the Law Library and University Library system.
• Assist the Director in oversight of the STU Audiovisual department with regard to law school classroom technologies and support.

• Provide research and reference support to all library patrons.
• Lead the development and maintenance of research guides, bibliographic tools, the law library webpage.
• Coordinate and teach guest lectures, lunch and learns, and other curricular and extra-curricular programming that involves general and specialized legal research.
• Prepare instructional material and training sessions and participate in legal research instructional programs as requested or needed by law school faculty or student organizations.
• Assist with collection development with emphasis on non-print material.
• Keep statistics on special projects and assignments.
• In the absence of the Faculty Services Librarian, provide direct support to the Law School faculty for research, materials, and training requests including Canvas, Westlaw/TWEN, Lexis Nexis/Lexis Classroom, Bloomberg Law and other law school technologies and resources.
• Participates in general Reference & Research services as part of regular workflow, including regular shifts at the reference desk.

• Represent the Law Library in local, regional, and national meetings as requested.
• Serve on University and/or Law School Committees and participate in University and Law School events as requested.
• Keep informed of new trends in access services and the law profession.
• Recommend materials and services to Library Administration based upon…