The Oregon Supreme Court Library anticipates a vacancy for an experienced
Cancellations Librarian. This position is contingent on the early
retirement of our Acqusitions Librarian, who no longer has anything to
do, but is temperamentally unsuited to cancellations work.
Qualifications: JD and MLS from accredited institutions; three years
experience in a shrinking library. Ten years experience in debt
collection or repossession work work may be substituted for the academic
degrees. Must be able to deal with vendors who refuse to acknowledge that
it is possible to cancel their products and who therefore have no
cancellation procedures in place, as well as customer service employees
who are recent immigrants from other planets. Position requires excellent
communications skill, such as the ability to curse in several languages,
as well as the ability to carry on in the midst of pointless change and
demoralization of staff. Ruthlessness and irascibility are desirable
traits. Must have no sentimental attachments to books or history.
Indifference to the legal information needs of judges, lawyers, and the
public at large a plus.
The Cancellations Librarian will write and implement a new Collection
Destruction policy. It is imperative that the unorganized destruction of
the recent past be replaced with systematic destruction procedures as we
move into the 21st century.
Salary commensurate with qualifications, experience, and amounts
cancelled. Excellent benefits package includes psychiatric counselling
and outplacement when the library is destroyed.
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Joe K. Stephens
Law Librarian Phone: (503) 986-5640
Oregon Supreme Court Library Fax: (503) 986-5560
1163 State Street E-Mail: jstephen@willamette.edu
Salem, Oregon 97310
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