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Assistant Librarian
Purpose of the role
The Assistant Librarian has two core responsibilities: learning and development/training; and library services. The Assistant Librarian will design and deliver legal research L&D/training programmes for fee earners and non-fee earners, support the management and enhancement of the firm’s knowledge base and assist in the administration of the library.
This is a full-time role, reporting to the Head of Learning & Development, who is a partner. The individual will also work closely with the Library Services Manager.
Responsibilities
Learning & Development/Training
- Responsible for the maintenance of a legal research L&D programme for fee earners, ranging from trainees to partners, and non-fee earners
- Responsible for the delivery of a significant proportion of legal research training on library catalogue and databases, including individual database training, Books of Authorities training, refresher case-law and legislation training and advanced training
- Responsible for the preparation of training manuals, user guides, FAQs and video tutorials and the regular audit and amendment of guides
- Liaises with external trainers to organise training sessions
Library Services
- Assists fee earners with legal research and queries
- Assists fee earners with business sector research
- General library administration duties, including cataloguing of journals and books and weeding out hard copy and electronic material where appropriate
- Supports development and review of library processes and procedures, including contributions to library pages of intranet
- Supports development of RSS feeds and alerts for fee earners
- Reviews, profiles and assists in uploading material to KM system on a regular basis
Skills, experience and attributes required of the ideal candidate
- An information professional, ideally with 2+ years’ experience
- Has recently worked in a legal or corporate library
- Strong academic background. Post-graduate library qualification essential
- Has the ability to undertake legal research unsupervised
- Demonstrated interest in learning and development and training, with strong design and delivery skills
- Strong demonstrated interest and literacy in IT
- Excellent written and communications skills
- Ability to work as part of diverse team
- Ability to persuade and influence senior individuals
- Ability to work to deadlines, manage multiple projects and deliver under pressure
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Has an enthusiastic and can-do-attitude. Is motivated to continuous improvement and personal and professional development
Key internal relationships
- Reporting to Head of Learning & Development
- Library Services Manager
Please forward CVs to careers@arthurcox.com.
Arthur Cox is an equal opportunities employer
