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The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law) is one of the nation’s premier law schools, located at one of the world’s great universities. The Law Library holds one of the largest law collections in the world. It houses an extensive collection of Anglo-American, international, foreign, and comparative law. The Law Library serves a faculty of more than 100, including tenured and tenure track, clinical, adjunct, and visiting professors and lecturers; more than 1000 J.D. students; 250 LL.M. students; 150 Professional Track LL.M. students in the summer; graduate students from the School of Jurisprudence and Social Policy; more than 100 visiting scholars each year; as well as researchers from other scholarly and legal communities. These include members of the University of California community, private attorneys, and members of the general public. Berkeley Law is the home of the prestigious Robbins Collection, which specializes in religious and civil law, and includes rare books and manuscripts. The Law School has a wide variety of research centers, clinics, and student-initiated projects.

The UC Berkeley School of Law Library seeks a Reference & Outreach Librarian (R&O Librarian). Working under the supervision of the Law Library’s Director of Research & Reference Services, R&O Librarian serves as a key member of the Reference team, providing a high level of research and library support to the law school and university community. The position will also plan, develop, coordinate, and direct library outreach activities to Berkeley Law School students, faculty, and staff. These activities include new and recurring programs, events, and publications aimed at apprising Law Library users of the library’s collection and services, electronic/digital research resources, reference assistance and research instruction. As an R&O Librarian, you assist in providing one-on-one instruction during research consultations as well as supporting classroom instruction by delivering ad hoc for our clinics, law reviews, Student -Initiated Legal Services Projects and other student groups.

The R&O Librarian will be a core, collaborative member of the Reference team. In addition to other assigned responsibilities, the position includes the following duties:

Reference Responsibilities

• Assess and identify the needs of the library’s primary users for research methods instruction in law and other relevant disciplines.
• Participate in library instruction, including recurring and ad hoc law school class appearances.
• Support the Law School’s teaching and research missions, including its emphasis on experiential education, designed to prepare practice-ready law graduates.
• Provide research consultation for individual faculty, students, and scholars in the UC Berkeley community.
• Collaborate with faculty on complex, innovative research projects, providing in-depth research support and integrating new research methodologies.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of research and reference instructional tools, including online research guides, video tutorials, and handouts for presentations and programs.
• Participate in student, faculty, and staff orientations to the library and its services.
• Contribute to the supervision and training of law student research assistants.
• Serve regular and as-needed assigned in-person desk hours at the library’s Reference Desk with occasional assignments on weekends.
• Serve regular and as-needed virtual Reference chat service hours.
• Participate in regular Reference team, committee, and other law library meetings.

Outreach

• Plan, develop, and implement targeted outreach initiatives to engage students, faculty, and staff with library services and resources.
• In cooperation with other library staff, provide expertise in the development, implementation, and assessment of outreach methods, policies, and procedures to the library, while monitoring external developments, best practices, and changing needs respecting outreach.
• As needed, serve as a point of contact for licensed database access and registration for new students and faculty.

UC Berkeley librarians are expected to participate in library-wide planning and governance, and work effectively in a shared decision-making environment. Advancement is partially based upon professional contributions beyond the primary assignment; the successful candidate will show evidence or promise of such contributions to the Library, campus, UC System, and profession.

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The excellence of the institution requires an environment in which the diverse community of faculty, students, and staff are welcome and included. Successful candidates will demonstrate knowledge and skill related to ensuring equity and inclusion in the activities of their academic position (e.g., teaching, research, and service, as applicable).

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

Please refer to the University of California’s Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
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