Librarian

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Librarian

Duties: Provides research and reference services to faculty, students and staff of the Legal Clinic, encompassing both programmatic and scholarly support; meets proactively with clinic faculty to ascertain research and reference support needs including scholarly, project or client oriented activities; collaborates with other librarians to address and respond to those needs as required; develops methods and processes to actively and effectively promote library resources and services to clinical faculty, staff and students; and performs in-depth, detailed research requiring substantive legal analysis. Engages in non-legal research support, including social science, political and governmental resources, historic and archival research as needed. Engages in proactive, formal and informal instruction with and to students in the Clinical programs, including training sessions, in-class presentations, webinars or other asynchronous learning, and other formats as required; engages with other teaching librarians as required. While serving as the primary Faculty Liaison to the Clinical faculty, the CSLL will also collaborate with librarian colleagues and others in identifying and providing services to Clinical faculty, while sharing information about the Clinic’s research needs with librarian colleagues. Assist Clinical faculty, staff and students in utilizing law practice technologies including knowledge and case management and organizational tools, time and billing resources, and other software and services. Participates in the collection development process with particular emphasis on identifying current and out-of-print resources, and practice-oriented resources that address needs identified by the Clinic’s faculty and program needs. Establishes and fosters contacts with other professionals and libraries by participating in committee work and activities of Law School, University, and professional organizations. While the focus of this position is on providing support to the Legal Clinic, will also provide support to the broader Northwestern Law and Northwestern University communities, through scheduled and back-up Reference Desk support. Participates in library staff development activities. Special projects and miscellaneous duties as assigned.

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