Reference and Research Librarian (Hybrid opportunity)
Zimmerman Associates, Inc. (ZAI) is currently seeking to hire a Reference and Research Librarian to support its government contract work in Washington, D.C. The qualified candidate will have experience with conducting legal, congressional, legislative history and/or regulatory research.
Responsibilities include:
- Experience performing front desk support, reference, reference development, collection maintenance and management, acquisitions
- Experience with outreach, creating marketing materials, and developing new reference services.
- Ability to provide legal and non-legal reference and research services using a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
- Experience using West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software.
- Ability to provide expert witness vetting, including creating comprehensive and highly detailed expert witness vetting reports. Vetting includes analysis of background reports, legal proceedings, expert witness depositions and trial testimonies, Daubert motions, author publications, professional licenses, news searches, and web and social media research
Qualifications:
- Ability to provide presentations, training, and education to library patrons.
- Demonstrated experience in teaching library resources and guidance on how to access information resources
- Ability to develop and maintain web-based subject guides.
- Ability to develop special reports, bibliographies, and other publications.
- Ability to assemble usage statistics and other library metrics.
- Other duties as assigned
Education:
- Master’s degree in library/information science from an ALA-accredited institution
- Minimum three (3) years of work with legal research and reference experience
- Experience with legal, legislative history, congressional, and regulatory research highly preferred
ZAI is an equal opportunity employer. In compliance with Federal and State Equal Opportunity Laws, qualified applicants are considered for all positions applied for without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, veterans’ status or any other legally protected status.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20001
