University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Detroit, Michigan, United States
(on-site)
Posted
3 days ago
Job Type
Full-Time
Job Duration
Indefinite
Min Experience
None
Min Education
JD
Required Travel
None
Job Function
Legal Education
Description
Reference Librarian & Adjunct Professor
Position Summary
- Teach the required 1L Legal Research course.
- Provide legal reference services to faculty, students, judges, lawyers, and other library patrons.
- Supervise the law library serials process, to include hiring and training student worker help.
- Facilitate communication between legal vendors.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reference & Technical Services:
- Assist patrons navigate databases, archives, and specialized collections.
- Manage the processing of serials materials.
- Communicate with library vendors to resolve billing issues.
- Manage the routing of current awareness articles.
- Participate in collection maintenance.
- Participate in collection development.
- Participate in current awareness research for faculty.
Instruction Services:
- Participate in teaching Legal Research, a required for-credit first-year course.
- Instructs students on how to effectively find, evaluate, and use information.
Additional Services:
- Supervise and train library staff on reference related requests.
Requirements
Juris Doctorate & MLIS degrees are required
Job ID: 82245535
For more than a century, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law has educated lawyers who lead with a commitment to the pursuit of justice, service to others and the highest standards of the legal profession. With a mission rooted in Jesuit and Mercy traditions, Detroit Mercy Law provides an intellectually rigorous education that combines theory, doctrine, ethics, transnational educational opportunities, and real-world experience.
Located in the heart of downtown Detroit, within Michigan's largest legal community and...
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