Law Library Director tenured Or Tenure-track

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Law Library Director (Tenured or Tenure-Track)
The candidate will be responsible for the directorship of the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library, fostering academic excellence and innovation throughout the Law Library and College of Law. Should be someone who can encourage, support, and advocate a strong role for the library in dynamic teaching and support of the law school curriculum and programs. Academic law libraries are facing dramatic challenges, including rapidly changing information technologies and research methods. Will embrace these challenges with vision, adaptability, and innovation. Should be someone who not only has a vision for the Law Library, but who has an understanding of its relationship to the Law School and the University more broadly, reflecting the library’s crucial role in shaping the future of legal education. Should also be someone who is committed to promoting an atmosphere of openness in the Law Library and in fostering a strong connection with and among its students in serving as a center for further student learning and engagement. In addition to being familiar with contemporary trends in legal education, the ideal candidate must possess an in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the evolving roles of academic law libraries in legal education, be familiar with emergent technologies for identifying, accessing, organizing, and interacting with knowledge and information, and be comfortable promoting technologies for enhancing student engagement and learning. Additionally, the ideal candidate would demonstrate effective, collaborative leadership; possess excellent communication and teaching skills; practice solid fiscal responsibility and management; have a track record of successfully securing external funding; possess a record of scholarly and professional achievement and contribution; and have a history of implementing technological innovations that advance the institution’s core commitments to engaged learning and teaching, research, and service. The ability to make active and original contributions to the College of Law’s mission is essential.
Reports to the Dean of the College of Law. The Law Library Director will be expected to give special attention to the following: Provide direction and administrative control for developing long-range plans for the library’s collections, personnel, physical plant, and technology needs. Stay informed about current trends in legal education and the legal profession. Collaborate with administration to identify, evaluate, and implement law library programs and services that support the mission and goals of the College of Law to produce practice-ready graduates. Work with library personnel to develop and support engaging programming for students. Manage and prepare annual budgets. Maintain familiarity with school-wide purchasing, accounting, and other financial policies and procedures, and assists in administering those policies and procedures for the library. Build and maintain relevant collections and services to meet the law school community’s research needs, including law faculty research, scholarship, and teaching activities, in accordance with collection development policies. Hold faculty rank commensurate with qualifications and experience, requiring teaching, scholarship, and service to the law school, the university, the legal profession, and the community. Participate in law school governance/management. Collaborate with the Dean in planning for annual requirements and needs of the library that further the goals of the law school. Maintain overall responsibility for the recruitment, management, and professional development of library personnel. Represent the library to the law school and the broader community, and coordinate functions between these groups. Market the library activities and programs to the law school students, faculty, staff, alumni, and outside groups. Work collectively with the DuPont Ball Library and other University departments.

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