Position Announcement
Law Library and Information Services Director, Louisiana State University
Law Center
The LSU Law Center invites applications for candidates for its Law
Library and Information Services Director.
Over the last six years, the Law Center has doubled its operating
budget; reduced the size of its first year class by almost one-third;
completed a $15-million renovation of its physical plant; hired 13 new
faculty; created and filled 18 new administrative positions; and doubled
its applicant pool, among other developments. Current financial planning
visualizes a further student body reduction from present levels in the 630
(J.D. student range) to the 550-575 range.
The Law Center has also commenced dynamic programs in Law and
Medicine (with a special focus on legal, economic and medical issues
associated with obesity) and United States/Latin American Trade and
Commercial Law. It is the only United States law center to feature a
bi-jural (Civil and Anglo-American Law) curriculum for its entire student
body, and to award a joint Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law to its
graduates. On the international front, the Law Center is currently engaged
in joint programs with law faculties in Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, and
Argentina while offering a Comparative United States/European curriculum in
its newly established Lyon, France Summer Program. Approximately eight of
Latin America’s and Europe’s most distinguished judges, practitioners and
academics teach annually in a cycle of three-week courses enriching our
students’ appreciation of Louisiana’s Civilian tradition and, more
generally, of comparative modes of legal analysis.
The newly integrated Law Library and Information Technology
Services departments have and must continue to play a central role in
supporting these and other developments and trends. Indeed, in direct
response to the Law Center’s Operational Plan, both former departments have
been among the principal beneficiaries of the Law Center’s unprecedented
state, federal and private financial support, as reflected in this
document’s attachment and in the ABA Site Visit team’s laudatory 2002
Accreditation Report.
We are looking for an individual who will enthusiastically embrace
the goals of energizing the Law Center’s Library and Information Technology
staffs, of re-invigorating the Library’s collection and acquisitions
programs (including the Civil and Comparative Law fields in which the
Library has excelled since the 1960's), and most important, of joining the
LSU team at a time when her or his superb management of the Law Center’s
Library and Information Technology resources will mate with and, indeed,
propel the dramatic ascent the Law Center is now experiencing.
Candidates should submit a resume and at least three references.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled (Spring or
Summer 2004). The successful candidate will have a tenured or tenure-track
position with a rank and salary commensurate with his or her experience and
with those available at the nation's other outstanding law schools. The LSU
Law Center is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity within
its organization. Applications should be sent to:
Office of the Chancellor
LSU Law Center
E. Campus Road
Baton Rouge, La. 70803
fntrot@lsu.edu
(See attached file: Library Fact Sheet December 2003.pdf)
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