Librarian (Law)

See QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION for important information about this position.

Serves as Senior Law Librarian. Provides technical guidance and expert advice on comprehensive legal and legislative reference services to the legal staff members in the Office of the General Counsel, as well as SSA's administrative research and legal staff.

See DUTIES for additional responsibilities of this position.

• Responsibility requires extensive legal research ability and special bibliographical competence in law and legislative services.
• Provides guidance, direction, and oversight in a major library system; library programs and maintenance (e.g., cataloging, acquisitions, collections development); reference and research; and/or Internet/Intranet services (Digital Library).
• Provides comprehensive, reference, research, advisory, evaluative, consultative and instructional services to individuals and groups.
• Responds to complex or difficult inquiries, including those in new or highly specialized fields of knowledge, those regarding historical materials that are difficult to identify or locate or for information involving rapidly evolving terminology.
• Responds orally or in writing to inquiries related to assigned field of responsibility.
• Exercises considerable judgment and discretion when interpreting and applying guidelines, including deviating from, or extending traditional methods, techniques and practices or identifying areas for improvement in established methods and procedures.
• Plans and manages all functions of a large, diverse legal research collection.
• Provides extensive legal and legislative reference services utilizing a variety of highly complex technical and specialized databases and other diverse sources.
• Recommends acquisition and budget modifications by reviewing all new and renewal contracts for publications and library services, for consistency in specifications and customer requirements.