ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN (1)

Duties and Responsibilities

Fosters strong, collaborative relationships
with faculty to align library resources and services with their research,
innovation, commercialisation, teaching and learning needs.
Assists in the assessment, and implementation new information technologies in the library.
Facilitates in acquisition, preservation and disposal of library materials, cataloguing, classification, and metadata creation for library materials.
Assists in the enforcement of library policies.
Contributes to the assessment of library facilities, collections based on user needs and trends, cataloguing practices.
Contributes to collection, archiving, accessibility, and discoverability of the university's research output.
Assists with training and support for library staff.
Monitors compliance with licensing and access rights.
Processes interlibrary loan requests.
Participates in library stock take and collects data for usage statistics.
Provides information literacy skills training and research support.
Registers and orients new library users and participates user education programmes.
Contributes to supervision and periodic staff performance evaluations in a designated section.
Participates in library quality assurance programmes.
Supports the administration of user surveys.
Contributes to the development of policies, guides and standards.
Collects statistics on patrons’ registration, library resources usage, etc.
Performs any other Library-related duties as assigned by the Sub-Librarian, Deputy Librarian or Librarian.