Law Librarian - New York State Unified Court System : Job Details

The New York State Unified Court System is seeking a Law Librarian that will be assigned to the Syracuse Law Library in Onondaga County.

*This is a Provisional (Temporary) position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consulting with judges and legal staff to identify research alternatives using all available formats.
• Providing legal reference services in person, by telephone, and electronically.
• Preparing informational and instructional documentation to support all types of research.
• Reviewing and evaluating legal research materials to identify items to be added to or withdrawn from collections.
• Designing and implementing systematic evaluations of law library and chambers collections.
• Managing or assisting in managing the system for maintaining control of the collection.
• Classifying new items in the collection according to library classification schedule and established guidelines.
• Operating acquisitions system, including bibliographic searching, order preparation, receipt, payment and reporting, preparing reports and monitoring expenditures from library budget.
• Assisting with cataloging and preserving rare book collections and developing best practices for digitizing library holdings and materials.
• This position will also help answer the State-Wide 1-800 Help line as well as the District-Wide Help line and assist in providing remote references to court users throughout the District and State and by text and email through the “Ask a Law Librarian” service.
• Some travel may be required.

Qualifications: Master's degree in Library Science or Library Information Sciences from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited college or university and one (1) year of professional work experience using library automation, providing legal reference services or involving library administration. This experience must have been in a law library or library information center with a significant legal collection. Or Law Degree from an accredited law school and one (1) year of professional work experience using library automation, providing legal reference services or involving library administration. This experience must have been in a law library or library information center with a significant legal collection.

Base Salary: $72,191

Please view the full employment announcement at: 5525.pdf