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Job Description

Position Summary

This position reports to the Head of Access Services, and it oversees the Westminster Law Library’s access services responsibilities during weekend and evening hours, as scheduled. The core duties of the position include oversight of the law library’s circulation and its functions during these times, the handling of unexpected staffing issues, personally staffing the circulation desk, shelving/stacks and other collection maintenance, interlibrary loan, signage/displays, stats collection, building maintenance issues, and additional projects as assigned.

This is a part-time, non-benefited position, which will not exceed 1,000 hours in a calendar year.

Scheduled hours will total approximately twenty hours per week, and compensation will be $16 per hour.

Essential Functions

• Help coordinate, oversee, problem-solve, and participate in the access services functions of the law library on weekends and evenings, including general circulation functions, reserves, shelving, stacks maintenance, filing, signage, and interlibrary loan.
• Provide high-quality service at a combined circulation and reference desk.
• Work closely with the Head of Access Services and the Assistant Director in areas such as access services planning, monitoring, and assessment.
• Serve as the initial point person for building management issues during assigned shifts – including communicating facilities requests, technological troubleshooting, weather-related issues, and security – and communicate them as appropriate, including to the Head of Access Services and the Assistant Director.
• Stay abreast of new developments in law library access services.
• Work with the Head of Access Services and other members of the law library team to develop relevant programming in access services.
• Complete other duties and projects as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A strong customer service orientation.
• An ability to work weekends and evenings.
• Technological proficiency, including in library-related technologies to support access services, such as online catalogs and ILL platforms, or a demonstrated potential for rapid growth into such skills.
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and the ability to exercise independent judgment.
• The ability to work both independently and as a team member, including establishing and maintaining effective and collaborative working relationships both inside and outside of the law library. This includes the ability to work flexibly with faculty, students, staff, and a diverse research community.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills; adaptability and flexibility; and an attention to detail, accuracy, timeliness, and dependability.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience in a library.

Work Schedule

Two weekend days (either Friday & Saturday or Saturday & Sunday), as well as weekday evening shifts as assigned.

The Community

The University of Denver Sturm College of Law is a national leader in experiential education, a recognized innovator in legal pedagogy, and the home of multiple nationally-recognized programs and centers, including a Top-10 program in legal research and writing. Denver Law has a strong commitment to supporting faculty research, to training highly skilled and professionally aware lawyers, and to exposing students to the range of legal technologies relevant to modern-day practice.

HR Info

Candidates must apply online through www.du.edu/jobs to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.  If you have questions, please contact Lewis Zimmerman at lzimmerman@law.du.edu.

Please include the following documents with your application:

1. Resume
2. Cover Letter

The University of Denver is an affirmative action employer committed to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds. Any applicable status protected by state or local law is not taken into account in any employment decision, including age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

All offers of employment are based upon satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check.