Library & Legal Research Assistant; Part-Time Job Belfast area,Northern Ireland UK,Administrative/Clerical

Position: Library & Legal Research Assistant (Part-Time)

Ashton Recruitment require a Library & Legal Research Assistant for our client, The Bar of Northern Ireland.

Position: Library & Legal Research Assistant (Part-Time)

Location: Belfast City Centre

Duration: Permanent

Pay Rate: Salary on Request

Hours of Work: 22.5 hours per week, 7.5 hours per day Monday - Wednesday, not including a 1 hour lunch break

The Bar of Northern Ireland is the professional body for barristers in Northern Ireland, representing those who are qualified to practice as advocates in the courts. Barristers play a crucial role in the justice system, providing specialist legal advice, advocacy, ensuring the rule of law and access to justice are upheld. The Bar of Northern Ireland represents the barrister profession, regulates the profession, and provides continuing professional development as well as a range of professional services to Bar Library members.

Duties

will include (but not limited to):

Receive and process legal research enquiries in accordance with the LIS procedures ensuring that the enquiries are handled efficiently and accurately from receipt to end billing. This will include but not limited to:

Drill down into the detail of the enquiry, and extracting more information from the member if required.
Correctly identify the appropriate materials and information (hard and soft copy) that need to be searched/consulted
Interrogate legal information databases in order to extract the appropriate information
Identify authoritative data and weed the non-authoritative data
Present and collate the data in a comprehensible and organised form allowing the member full insight as to how their information was retrieved, filtered, refined etc

Receive and process Bar Library Authority Gathering (BLAG) requests and Optimised Brief & Bundle Service (OBBS) in accordance with LIS procedures and current Practice Directions ensuring that the BLAGs and OBBS requests are handled efficiently and accurately from receipt to end billing. This will include but not limited to:

Drill down into the detail of the bundle request, and extracting more information from the service user if required.
Correctly identify the appropriate materials and information (hard and soft copy) that need to be searched/consulted
Interrogate legal information databases in order to extract the appropriate information
Using Adobe at an advanced level, collating and indexing the information into hard copy and soft copy bundles suitable for further dissemination beyond the Membership

Responding to change requests, often complex, as they arrive and action those without compromising the integrity of the bundles.

Support the activities and duties of the LIS office in order to maintain an up-to-date legal information service and deliver effective and relevant Member services. These activities and duties will include but not limited to:

Ordering and processing titles as part of the Bar Library Bookshop
Administering the Members' Subscription Service
Assisting, when requested, to deliver the Bar Library Current Awareness Service
Data entry into Bar Library databases and online catalogues
Indexing of legal materials

Keep abreast of current topical legal information and legal/justice developments both in Northern Ireland and nationally in order that an informed response can be delivered to the members when they enquire about such information.

Actively promote all aspects of the LIS to the membership ensuring that members are kept informed of the range of services available to them and how their use may benefit their practice.

Retrieve and re-shelve Library materials and tidy Library shelves to ensure a well-organised physical Library environment.

Obtain materials from external sources as required in accordance with LIS procedures and complying with copyright restrictions in order that the membership have access to a broad range of extra information not held within the Bar Library collection.

Undertake looseleaf updates accurately and in a timely fashion ensuring that the membership have access to the most up to date information available.

Repair Library books and organise binding/rebinding of the Library Collection as and when required ensuring the Members…


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