Post: Library Assistant
Duties and responsibilities: To be responsible to the Head Teacher, under and through the School Librarian if appropriate. Responsible for the following duties and responsibilities under regular supervision.
Specific responsibilites include:
- To be present in one library space, in the absence of the librarian, as arranged. (A teacher should be available to deal with disciplinary matters).
- Shelving and shelf tidying.
- Overseeing the issue and discharge of books and other materials.
- Routines connected with receipt and return of project collections.
- Clerical routines connected with the ordering and receipt of new materials.
- Book repairs.
- Mounting slides, cuttings, etc.
- Filing (of catalogue cards, cuttings, photos, slides, etc.), and file maintenance.
- Initial guidance/advice to readers and enquirers.
- Other library routines of a non-professional nature.
- Undertaking any other duties which may reasonably be regarded as within the nature of the duties and responsibilities/grade of the post as defined, subject to the proviso that normally any changes of a permanent nature shall be incorporated into the job description in specific terms reflect the nature of that establishment Job Description.
