USA: The Library Teaching Professor (Associate Director for Access & Operations) University of Illinios College of Law Library

The Library Teaching Professor (Associate Director for Access & Operations) is a critical member of the Law Library management team who is responsible for supervising the day-to-day work of one Academic Professional librarian, five Civil Service employees, and five FTE graduate assistants.  Working with the Law Library Director, library faculty, and library staff, the Associate Director for Access & Operations manages the library’s acquisitions budget, collection development and maintenance, and circulation/access.  The position directly supervises library technical services operations, including purchasing and licensing of materials, library catalog and automated library systems, serials, cataloging, government documents, collection management/maintenance.   The Associate Director for Access & Operations also plans and leads projects to create new content through digitization and other modalities, teaches one or more legal research course(s), and supports law faculty and law student research.

The Law Library Teaching Professor is a full-time, 12 month  non-tenure track Specialized Law Library Faculty position with the possibility of a long-term contract. The expected start date is as soon as possible after the closing date. Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after that date.  Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

To apply for this position, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your curriculum vita, and names/contact information of three professional references as a single PDF file by December 2, 2016.  Full consideration will be given to complete applications received by the closing date.

For further information regarding applicant procedures please contact Talisa Thompson at [email protected] or at 217-333-2914.  You may also visit https://www.law.illinois.edu/library/ for additional information.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.