Organisation
National Library of Jamaica
Reference
VAC-55847
Contract Type
Full-Time
Industries
Library & Records Management
Location
Kingston
Salary & Benefits
$1,711,060 per annum
Date Posted
14/02/2025
Expiry Date
28/02/2025
Under the direction of the Manager, Research & Information the Senior Library Assistant provides paraprofessional support in the organization and dissemination of library resources and services to satisfy the information needs of users.
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
Region:
Kingston
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