Skills Inventory Survey

AALL Government Law Libraries SIS Skills Inventory Project

For information on this mentoring program, visit the GLL-SIS Skills Inventory web page at: https://www.aallnet.org/gllsis/resources-publications/mentoring-skill-inventory/

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* 1. Contact Information

Name

AALL Profile URL (search yourself by name to find full profile URL)

Phone number (if different)

Email (if different)

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* 2. Administration Skills

Advocacy

Budgeting

Conducting surveys

Experienced in handling press/journalist inquiries

Fund-raising, working with donors

Grant writing

Law Library policies

Library management (budgets, staffing, planning, etc.)

Library space planning (construction, renovation, moves etc.)

Managing change or stress

Marketing, promotion, outreach

Meeting planning

Organizing and working with volunteers

Project management

Quality improvement, process improvement, reporting

Strategic plans

Vendor relationships, negotiations, contracts

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* 3. Collection Management Skills

Collection development

Collection downsizing

Preservation

Rare books

Special collections

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* 4. Education and Training (non-member) Skills

Course development: legal professionals, general public, non-law librarians

Curriculum design and delivery

Instructional technologies

Legal information literacy (new resources, tricks of the trade)

Self-directed learning

Teaching & instructional methodologies

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* 5. Professional Development Skills (in-reach, internal, librarian to librarian)

Job searches, interviewing, resume development

Leadership skills

Legal information literacy

Presentation Skills

Publishing, authorship

Serving as a reference

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* 6. Public Services Skills

Bibliographic/citation management software

Circulation management

Community partnerships

Dealing with challenging people

Digital reference services

End-user training

Expert searching

Facilitating direct legal services

Interlibrary loan (ILL)

Reference

Self-representation resources

Unauthorized practice of law

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* 7. Research Skills

Research design and methodology

Research grant writing

Statistical methods

Survey research

Subject Expertise:

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* 8. Specialty Librarianship Skills

Attorney general law libraries

City law libraries

County law libraries

Federal agency law libraries

Federal court law libraries

Government documents libraries

One person libraries

State agency law libraries

State law libraries

Subscription law libraries

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* 9. Technical Services Skills

Acquisitions

Electronic resource management

Indexing, cataloging, metadata

Library systems administration

Resource identification and selection

Serials management

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* 10. Technology Skills

Digitization, digital repositories

Emerging technologies

Integrated library systems, federated search, discovery tools

Mobile technology and devices

Social media tools and best practices

User interface design, usability studies, and testing

Website design, development, management