Librarian Research Support

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Librarian, Research Support
Duties: Responsible for significant research, reference, outreach, and instructional tasks to further the excellent service of the Research Services department in a dynamic and challenging environment. Provides superior research support, outreach, instruction, and other library services to our diverse community of students, faculty, staff, and other constituent scholars. Provides research support in both Anglo-American law and foreign, comparative, and international law. Provides reference and outreach services as a library liaison to **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. Faculty and legal services clinics. Participates in the development of print and electronic research guides, tutorials, and other technology-based tools to educate and assist patrons in conducting legal research and using library resources. Participates in developing the Library’s online presence via the web site and other electronic means. Together with the Associate Librarian for Collections and Access, the Senior Librarian for Reference, Instruction and Collection Development, the Curator of Foreign and International Law, and other selectors of materials for the law library, develops expertise in collection development in all formats. Participates in library planning committees, working groups, and data collection and analysis efforts within the Law Library and the University Library. Seeks opportunities for professional growth and involvement. Engages in campus, regional, and national professional organizations and collaborative activities. Expected to be professionally active and represent the Library and the University in the academic, scholarly, and professional community. Provides research support to students and faculty in academic departments, schools, and research centers through consultations, instruction sessions, and in-person and virtual reference services. Supports research and raises awareness of information resources through outreach efforts such as department-based office hours, blogs, RSS feeds, mailing list messages, and workshops. Creates and maintains online guides and other research support tools. Collaborates with librarians, GIS specialists, archivists and other providers of information resources to support research and teaching. Develops library collections in all formats. Works closely with the Director of Collection Development, collection, acquisitions and cataloging librarians, and staff on acquiring and receiving resources in all formats (print, databases, datasets, images, a/v, etc.) and preparing them for availability to users. Participates in departmental library research support and collections program planning. Participates in library system-wide planning, committees, and work groups, and engages in campus, regional and national professional organizations and collaborative activities. Monitors developments and best practices elsewhere to help ensure the excellence of Yale’s collections and research support services. May be required to assist with disaster recovery efforts. May perform other duties as assigned.

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