Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an Assistant Librarian for an initial 5 month contract on a rate of £17.79/hour PAYE. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Providing and maintaining an excellent legal research and enquiry facility
– Producing current awareness bulletins and updates
– Ensuring that collections are organised and managed effectively by cataloguing materials to in-house cataloguing standards, using the Koha library management system
– Assisting the librarians with IT Product Training and User Education including administration of training events
– Editing and contributing to the knowledge management SharePoint platform
 
Essential Skills:
 
– An approved degree in librarianship or information science (or postgraduate qualification in same)
– Experience of working in a library or information service environment (experience of legal library work would be advantageous)
– Excellent organisational and time management skills with ability to balance competing priorities
– Good interpersonal, networking and team-working skills with the ability to engage confidently with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.