Senior Library Assistant (PIDG/LA2)

Minimum Required Qualification and Experience

• Secondary Level Education to include English Language and Library Technical Certificate
• 1 year experience in library environment OR
• Associate Degree in Library Studies

Key Responsibilities

• Undertakes the maintenance of the Daphne Douglas and Rare Books collections by identifying pamphlet boxes in need of expansion, resources that need cardboard backing, relabeling and/or rewrapping and reporting to the Manager, Research and Information issues of maintenance, etc.
• Provides research and information services to library users
• Participates in search activities and reports missing items
• Participates in the creation of Jottings cards
• Conducts routine shelf reading and collection maintenance
• Dispatch resources received from Cataloguing & Classification, Collections Development and Preservation & Conservation Branches to respective locations
• Performs copy cataloguing of United Nations (UN) resources
• Performs routine maintenance of the United Nations collection to remove resources as dictated under NLJ’s Collection Development Policy
• Participates in the shelving and storage of resources in adherence to classification schemes, rules and standards conducive to the retrieval and preservation of the collection
• Assists in the delivery of training programmes
• Maintain systems/records/databases of material sent and received from the Bindery
• Identifies and dispatches resources for preservation and conservation.
• Assists with library tours and library orientation
• Participates in the mounting of exhibitions and displays
• Prepares quarterly and monthly progress and branch reports

Required Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

Core Competencies

• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Customer & Quality Focus
• Teamwork & Cooperation

Functional Competencies

• Cataloguing and Classification
• Records Management
• Research and Reference Skills
• Preservation & Conservation
• Data Management
• Information Communication Technology

Special conditions associated with the job

• Required to work outside of normal working hours and location to include Saturday, Sunday and or Public Holiday

We appreciate all responses, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted