Description

Zimmerman Associates, Inc. (ZAI) is currently seeking to hire a Reference and Research Librarian to support a client in Washington, D.C.  The qualified candidate will have experience with conducting legal, congressional, legislative history and/or regulatory research. 

Responsibilities include:

• Experience performing front desk support, reference, reference development, collection maintenance and management, acquisitions
• Experience with outreach, creating marketing materials, and developing new reference services.
• Ability to provide legal and non-legal reference and research services using a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
• Experience using West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software.
• Ability to provide expert witness vetting, including creating comprehensive and highly detailed expert witness vetting reports. Vetting includes analysis of background reports, legal proceedings, expert witness depositions and trial testimonies, Daubert motions, author publications, professional licenses, news searches, and web and social media research

Qualifications:

• Ability to provide presentations, training, and education to library patrons.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching library resources and guidance on how to access information resources
• Ability to develop and maintain web-based subject guides. 
• Ability to develop special reports, bibliographies, and other publications.
• Ability to assemble usage statistics and other library metrics.
• Other duties as assigned

 Education:

• Master’s degree in library/information science from an ALA-accredited institution
• Minimum three (3) years of work with legal research and reference experience
• Preferred experience with legal, legislative history, congressional, and regulatory research

Requirements

Zimmerman Associates, Inc. (ZAI) is currently seeking to hire a Reference and Research Librarian to support a client in Washington, D.C.  The qualified candidate will have experience with conducting legal, congressional, legislative history and/or regulatory research. 

Responsibilities include:

• Experience performing front desk support, reference, reference development, collection maintenance and management, acquisitions
• Experience with outreach, creating marketing materials, and developing new reference services.
• Ability to provide legal and non-legal reference and research services using a wide variety of electronic resources, including Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline.
• Experience using West’s Key Number System and CLEAR Investigative database software.
• Ability to provide expert witness vetting, including creating comprehensive and highly detailed expert witness vetting reports. Vetting includes analysis of background reports, legal proceedings, expert witness depositions and trial testimonies, Daubert motions, author publications, professional licenses, news searches, and web and social media research

Qualifications:

• Ability to provide presentations, training, and education to library patrons.
• Demonstrated experience in teaching library resources and guidance on how to access information resources
• Ability to develop and maintain web-based subject guides. 
• Ability to develop special reports, bibliographies, and other publications.
• Ability to assemble usage statistics and other library metrics.
• Other duties as assigned

 Education:

• Master’s degree in library/information science from an ALA-accredited institution
• Minimum three (3) years of work with legal research and reference experience
• Preferred experience with legal, legislative history, congressional, and regulatory research

ZAI is an equal opportunity employer. In compliance with Federal and State Equal Opportunity Laws, qualified applicants are considered for all positions applied for without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, veterans’ status or any other legally protected status.

Job Information

• Job ID: 65443255
• Workplace Type: Hybrid
• Location:
  Dist. Columbia, United States
• Position Title: Reference and Research Librarian ( legal)
• Company Name For Job: Zimmerman Associates Inc
• Discipline: Professional Legal Management
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Min Education: Master's Degree
• Min Experience: 3-5 Years
• Required Travel: None