Library Clerk (BA) Term

Nova Scotia Regional Centres for Education & CSAP • Lunenburg, NS

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The South Shore Regional Centre for Education (SSRCE) practices the culturally responsive pedagogy approach in providing an inclusive, diverse, equitable, safe and healthy education that supports learning and success both personally and academically to the 59,000 residents of Lunenburg and Queens Counties, an area of 5,250 square kilometres and a total of 23 schools. Regional Centres for Education have Employment Equity Policies and/or processes and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi’kmaw/Indigenous ancestry. Please ensure that you complete the self-identification portion on the position application.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate effectively with staff and students
• Satisfactory Criminal Record / Vulnerable Sector Check
• Nova Scotia Child Abuse Register Check

Nice To Haves

• Post secondary education in a related field
• Experience working in a school library
• Secretarial experience
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Ability to work methodically, paying attention to detail
• Possess strong organizational skills
• Team player, with good interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative support to the library, including maintaining daily statistics of use, entering and deleting computer entries from the check-out desk, shelving books and reading shelves, withdrawing routines, entering magazines received and filing back issues, filing catalogue cards, making minor repairs to books, helping with displays, processing new books, and typing reports, catalogue cards, letters, bibliographies and other communications as required to support library services.
• Provides support to staff and students, including generating overdue lists for homeroom teachers or other staff, providing a library photocopy service, providing a film library service for teachers (i.e. ordering, receiving, organizing and returning films from external film libraries), and assisting students and staff in the library.
• Complies with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
• Performs other related duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree