Assistant Librarian

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP is one of Ireland's largest full service law firms. We are a forward thinking law firm and are currently recruiting for an Assistant Librarian to join our firm in the Dublin office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists fee earners with legal research and queries
• Supports with delivery of training programmes
• Creation and development of library guides and support material
• General library administration duties, including cataloguing of journals and books and reviewing hard copy and electronic material where appropriate
• Supports development and review of library processes and procedures, including contributions to library pages of firm's intranet
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of library systems
• Reviews, profiles and assists in the uploading of material to library systems
• Information Security - Support implementation of the Firms Information Security Management and comply with the Firms Information Security Statement
• Adhere to data classifications and handling rules
• Report Breach of Policy, Incident or Security Weakness
• Comply with the ISMS-04 User's Information Security Policy Statements
• Additional - Staff may be requested to carry out such reasonable tasks as may from time to time occur

Skills, experience and attributes:

• Post-graduate library qualification essential
• An information professional with a minimum of 2+ years' experience
• Previous experience of legal library
• The ability to undertake legal research unsupervised
• Demonstrated interest in learning and development and library training, with strong design and delivery skills
• Strong demonstrated interest and literacy in I.T.
• Excellent written and communications skills
• 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, corporate environment
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Has an enthusiastic and can-do-attitude. Is motivated to continuous improvement and personal and professional development