Job Description
Faculty are essential to Liberty University's mission of Training Champions for Christ. It is expected that a faculty member model a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University, engage in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed Christian worldview. Faculty should view their teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to a significant educational end. They should strive to employ a variety of techniques for the development of good learning conditions, view each student as a unique individual, and insofar as it is possible, provide for individual differences, abilities, and interests.
The Associate Librarian for Public Services is responsible for enhancing the library's impact on its patrons through research support, marketing/outreach, and oversight of access services. The Associate Librarian remains current on trends in legal information and technology and works closely with other librarians and the Director of the Law Library in the performance of his/her duties.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Provide individual legal research support to students and faculty in the School of Law and other areas of the university, both virtually and in person
- Coordinate the library's efforts to orient law students to library resources and services and develop their legal research skills
- Manage and support two Circulation Supervisors, who, along with 15 student assistants, perform the library's access services functions
- Communicate effectively with users to discern their needs and help them achieve their goals
- Coordinate library outreach services to law student organizations
- Author research guides, finding aids, and instructional materials
- Train and support faculty research assistants as needed
- Design and conduct library programs and tours
- Collaborate with other librarians in collection management decisions
- Contribute to a culture characterized by commitments to organizational learning, responsible innovation, and shared ownership of the library's emerging role in legal education
QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS Education and Experience - Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an ABA-accredited law school
- Work experience in a law library or other setting that involves legal research, preferred
- Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) from an ALA-accredited library school, or equivalent, preferred
- Supervisory experience, preferred
Target Hire Date
2025-02-24
Time Type
Full time
Location
Lynchburg - In Office
The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University's hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the "religion" component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs. Liberty University
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