Description

The Elon University School of Law Library is located in Greensboro, NC. The Law Library attempts to fully meet the educational and research needs of the Elon Law community, including students, staff, faculty, and adjuncts. The Law Library also serves as a source of legal information for the Elon Law alumni base, practicing attorneys in Greensboro, and provides limited services to the general public. This position is part of the law library staff of seven (7) positions. 

Key responsibilities of this position include supervision of the Access Services department and providing reference and legal research instruction.   

As the head of the Access Services department, this position plans, organizes, and directs Access Services activities including opening/closing the library, setting library hours (in consultation with the library director), circulation of library materials, managing course reserves, overseeing inter-library loans, and stack maintenance.   

This librarian will manage a full-time staff member, the Circulation Paraprofessional.  They will also hire, supervise, train (along with the Circulation Paraprofessional), and schedule shifts for student workers.   

In addition, this position determines both the circulation and reference schedules, assigning in-person desk shifts as well as virtual reference shifts.  The role will also maintain and share shift calendars for both departments with staff and student workers.  They will be responsible for collecting and maintaining statistics for both service points.   

This role manages all social media accounts for the library.  They will serve on the library's Student Engagement Committee to support student experience initiatives in the library.   

A large portion of the role requires co-teaching (and occasional individual teaching) in the library instructional program along with three other professional librarians, including the library director.  This group creates and updates all library instructional materials.  They also serve as reference liaisons to our faculty. 

Requirements

1. Manages Access Services and schedules all library service points.   

• Supervises one full-time staff position, the Circulation Paraprofessional.  The paraprofessional position will support the Access/Reference Librarian – Law in all access services responsibilities as needed and appropriate. 
• Planning, organizing, updating, and directing Access Services activities including opening/closing the library (updating hours using LibCal), setting library hours (in consultation with the library director), circulation of library materials, managing course reserves, overseeing inter-library loans, managing study room reservations, stack maintenance, and maintaining departmental documentation.   
• Hiring, supervising, training (along with the Circulation Paraprofessional), and scheduling student workers. 
• Serving as the main point of contact for any student worker or staff Circulation shift-related changes or library coverage issues.   
• Scheduling, updating, and managing library calendars with shift coverage for both Circulation and Reference Desks (including virtual reference). Collecting and maintaining statistics for both service points.   
• Actively supporting the student experience initiatives of the law library, specifically through management of the library social media accounts.   
• Other access services duties as needed and/or assigned.

2. Teaches in the Legal Research program and develops instructional material for both credit-bearing and non-credit instruction.   

• Teaching first year Basic Legal Research is a requirement of regular job duties. Other teaching may be required as needed. This program uses the co-teaching model, with some opportunities for individual instruction. Co-teaching entails two professional librarians (including the director) sharing classroom instruction and grading responsibilities for a given section of first year Basic Legal Research.  Individual instruction opportunities could be informal sessions with a group of students or presentations in other faculty courses.  If further instructional aspirations desired, they can be proposed for approval.  
• Providing informal instruction to students, faculty, student groups, or other populations as needed. (Example: Providing a “how to select a note topic” presentation for Elon Law Review students). 
• Working with our Charlotte Flex part-time program and full-time program to provide reference and legal research instruction. Teaching first year Basic Legal Research in Charlotte on a rotating basis may be required (the course is taught over ten (10) weeks in the fall terms).  
• Collaborating with other reference librarians and the library director to create and update legal research instructional materials, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence developments. 
• Other instructional duties as needed and/or assigned. 

3. Provides general reference and research assistance to Elon Law students and faculty.  

• Staffing specified shifts for reference desk services and virtual/chat reference. 
• Creating and updating legal reference materials (e.g. instructional infographics, LibGuides, etc.) 
• Attending regular reference meetings. Collaborating on reference projects as assigned and as needed. 
• Updating reference documentation including the reference manual and other processes or procedures. 
• Creating passwords for public computer use and troubleshooting technology issues with computer systems. 
• Providing limited reference guidance to public patrons. 
• Other reference duties as needed and/or assigned. 

4. Participates in the library faculty liaison program, acting as the primary contact for assigned law school faculty and adjuncts.  

• Providing in-depth research assistance to faculty members. 
• Training faculty Research Assistants. 
• Creating subject matter bibliographies. 
• Creating and updating LibGuides to supplement faculty courses. 
• Providing credentials and instruction for library database usage. 
• Other faculty service duties as needed and/or assigned. 

5. Participates in assigned and voluntary library committees. Contributes to policy management and development in collaboration with other library staff.  

• Participating in the library’s Collections & Acquisitions Committee. 
• Participating in the library’s Student Engagement Committee. 
• Participating in the drafting, updating, and maintaining of library policy documents with other library staff. 
• Other committee and policy duties as needed and/or assigned. 

6. Inclusive Community Building.  

• Community is foundational to Elon and a shared responsibility for all who work at the University. Employees should demonstrate an understanding of and engagement with Elon’s foundational commitment to relationships, mentoring, and collaboration in a close-knit community. Accordingly, employees are expected to join together and build connections in activities that foster an active and engaged campus environment and engage in professional development to support the shared responsibility of enriching diversity, equity, and inclusion through meaningful relationships and mentoring at Elon. Employees are encouraged to, for example, attend or participate in campus events such as Coffee and Conversation or College Coffee, Numen Lumen, campus cultural events, athletic events, continuing education, professional development opportunities and trainings, employee resources groups, and other university-sponsored and/or Elon Law sponsored activities to demonstrate an active commitment to the Elon community.
• Attending at least three (3) professional development sessions per year.