Senior Research Resource Specialist (Research Librarian)

Job Title: Senior Research Resource Specialist

Department: Library and Research Services

Office: Washington D.C.

Report to: Senior Research Services Manager

Status: Non-Exempt

Summary

We strive to be enterprising, respectful, inclusive, insightful, and tenacious in every aspect of our business, including our interactions with clients, colleagues, and the communities where we have a presence. We rely on these core values to serve clients in key practice areas and industries – the pillars of Brown Rudnick: crisis management, which includes restructuring, investigations, and special situations; global litigation; life sciences; technology; and brand and reputation protection.

Our mission is to provide our legal and business professionals with comprehensive, timely, and insightful research support that empowers them to deliver the highest quality services to our clients and the Firm. Reporting to the Senior Research Services Manager, this role will work closely with Research Services Staff to promote the department’s resources from acquisition to discovery and delivery. The individual in this role will have a strong understanding of the full cycle of electronic resources management as well as experience in vendor communication, and in the development and use of evaluative criteria to support licensing and renewal. This position is critical to the effective operation of the department and represents an opportunity to rethink and realign workflows and electronic resources management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Research Staff to support reliable access to electronic resources through the library’s discovery systems.
• Perform original and complex copy cataloging for all resource formats.
• Collaborate with Research Staff to maintain the functionality of our integrated library system, assess best practices, and streamline workflow.
• Participate in troubleshooting user access problems and communicating solutions.
• Investigate and recommend policies, procedures, and best practices for collection and resources management.
• Analyze library collections data in order to contribute to collection assessment.
• Collaborate with the Research Staff in evidence-based collection assessment processes to analyze, evaluate, and adjust library resources to align with the firm’s research needs.
• Contribute to planning and acquisition of new resources in collaboration with Senior Research Services Manager.
• Participate in reference services, including periodic staffing of the reference desk.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging systems, tools, and industry trends and other data for resource management, access, and assessment.
• Any other tasks or projects as requested.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution.
• 4-6 years’ experience in electronic resources collection development in a law library.
• Experience with library management systems and Research Monitor.
• Experience with research platforms including, but not limited to, Westlaw, Practical Law, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, VitalLaw, Checkpoint, RBSource Filings, Bloomberg terminal.
• Experience planning, organizing, and managing projects, both independently and within a team environment.
• Strong organization skills, including setting priorities, planning, and structuring project deliverables.
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving/solutions-focused mindset.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Who We Are

Brown Rudnick is an international law firm with roots in post-war 1940s Boston and New York City. From the beginning, our lawyers and business professionals have demonstrated a remarkable blend of entrepreneurialism and collaboration. Over the last 25 years, the combined firm has thrived with full and easy partner/practice integration, rapidly realized profits from practice group collaboration, the continued development of new lawyers and a business professional staff that is well respected in the industry. Today, Brown Rudnick is a recognized leader in several practice and industry areas, such as corporate restructuring, technology, white collar defense, international disputes, intellectual property, and life sciences. The Firm continues to grow strategically and show its entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit that led to its creation.

Salary range based on experience level and location is estimated to be in the range of $70,000 – 85,000.

Brown Rudnick LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing talented professionals from all backgrounds across the spectrum of diversity. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, or another protected characteristic, all as defined by applicable laws.