Warburg Institute Graduate Library Trainee University of London

University of London - School of Advanced Study

The Role

The Library Trainee will be responsible to the Librarian and will work under the direction of the Assistant Librarian in charge of the Reading Room.

Duties will include:

1. Reader Services - including issuing of readers’ tickets, enquiries from readers, some supervision of the Reading Room
2. Interlibrary loans
3. Catalogue record capture and editing
4. Assistance with the ordering of books (creating electronic records and mailing the printed order forms)
5. Assistance with book conservation
6. Assistance with the digitalization programme
7. Preparing correspondence (e.g. template, acknowledgement letters)
8. Selling photocopying cards and accounting for cash taken in line with University financial regulations
9. Missing book searches

Requirements

Knowledge of a modern European language would be useful, as would an interest in the subject areas served by the Library.The successful candidate should be able to work effectively, independently and as part of a small team, and will be expected to undertake occasional other duties in the absence of colleagues.

About The Department

The Warburg Institute of the University of London exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition, that is of those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The full-time members of the Institute's academic staff are engaged in maintaining and developing its Archive, Library and Photographic Collection, in teaching, in the supervision of research, and in the preparation of material for publication. The Institute's activities also include public lectures, seminars and colloquia, the publication of a Journal (jointly with the Courtauld Institute of Art), of monographs (Studies of the Warburg Institute and Oxford-Warburg Studies), of Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, Warburg Studies and Texts, Warburg Institute Colloquia and of occasional publications.

Further Information

This is a one-year fixed-term appointment to commence in mid-September 2012. The appointment will be made to Point 6, Level 2 of the University of London pay scale. The current salary is £17,136 (including £2,134 London Weighting). There is no application form. Applications should be made by letter addressed to the Institute Manager, The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB and should include an up-to-date curriculum vitae with the names and address of two referees.Applicants are also asked to download an Equal Opportunities form from the Institute’s website, which they should complete and send in along with their application.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 31 January 2012.

Any further enquiries should be addressed to the Librarian, Professor Jill Kraye (Jill.Kraye@sas.ac.uk). For further information, please see the further particulars below.

Additional Job Board Text

The University of London is one of the oldest and largest universities in the UK – and the most diverse. Established by Royal Charter in 1836, the University is recognised globally as a world leader in Higher Education. We are a federal institution consisting of 19 self-governing Colleges of outstanding reputation, and a number of acclaimed central academic bodies, the University of London offer almost every subject covered in any University curriculum, delivering huge flexibility and choice to its students.