The UMKC School of Law Leon E. Bloch Law Library is accepting applications for the position of Director of Electronic Services & Communications. We will be interviewing at AALL in Boston.
Responsibilities:
The Director of Electronic Services & Communications ("ESC Director") will serve as both a reference librarian and information communications officer for the law school. The ESC Director facilitates the flow of information through the law school, local bar and alumni communities, builds and strengthens relations among those communities, and leverages the value of the law school and library as information organizations.
Required:
J.D., M.L.S., excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, teaching ability, maturity, professionalism, vision and management ability. Previous library work required.
Preferred:
Experience practicing law and providing service related activities to bar associations. Experience with instruction, personnel management, information and knowledge management, education technology, usability design, information architecture and professional or academic publishing. Computer and networking experience may be helpful for working with existing staff specialists in these fields.
Salary and Benefits:
To mid-$50's depending on qualifications and experience
Other:
For full description see: <http://www1.law.umkc.edu/Library/DESC.job.D.2004.htm> http://www1.law.umkc.edu/Library/DESC.job.D.2004.htm
To Apply:
Please send cover letter, resume and contact information for three references to: Paul D. Callister, Professor and Director of Law Library, UMKC School of Law, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110; or to <mailto:callisterp@umkc.edu> callisterp@umkc.edu. Interviews will be also be available at the AALL annual meeting in Boston.
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PAUL D. CALLISTER, JD, MSLIS
Library Director & Associate Professor of Law
LEON E. BLOCH LAW LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW
"Librarianship remains the last refuge of idealists." -- Bob Berring, Thinkable Thoughts, Law Librarians 3 (Sept. - Oct. 2003).
"My guess is, you know, about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search. But we've--we can make slow and steady progress and maybe one day we'll get there." Sunday Morning: The Little Engine that Could; Google Grows from Garage to Giant (CBS television broadcast, March 28, 2004) (Charles Osgood reporting interview with Craig Silverstein, Google Director of Technology).
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