Position description
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law) is one of the nation’s premier law schools, located at one of the world’s great universities. The Law Library holds one of the largest law collections in the world housing an extensive collection of Anglo-American, international, foreign, and comparative law. The Law Library serves a faculty of more than 100, including tenured and tenure track, clinical, adjunct, and visiting professors and lecturers; more than 900 J.D. students; 250 LL.M. students; 150 Professional Track LL.M. students in the summer; graduate students from the School of Jurisprudence and Social Policy; more than 100 visiting scholars each year; as well as researchers from other scholarly and legal communities. These include members of the University of California community, private attorneys, and members of the general public. Berkeley Law is the home of the prestigious Robbins Collection, which specializes in religious and civil law, and includes rare books and manuscripts. The Law School has a wide variety of research centers, clinics, and projects.
The Berkeley Law Library seeks a Cataloging and Metadata Services Law Librarian who will be responsible for advancing the library’s tools and resources surrounding the use of information technology and scholarship. This position will supervise and manage the Institutional Repository (IR), the Cataloging unit, and the growing array of metadata projects currently underway or under consideration. The synergies between the institutional repository, the Law Library catalog, and other information resources all revolve around the understanding of and proper utilization and deployment of library metadata.
