Library Assistant

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

The National Gallery of Australia’s Research Library & Archives is a specialist library that is responsible for providing appropriate services to meet the research needs of the National Gallery’s professional staff, volunteers, visiting researchers and the public.

The role of Library Assistant (filer/shelver) will be to work collaboratively within the Research Library & Archives team to contribute effective and efficient library and archives services. In this position you will work in a small team to help deliver innovative, effective and efficient library and archives services.

You will have the opportunity to undertake, and be trained in, a variety of tasks including basic collection management for ephemera and auction catalogue collections, and Library of Congress Classification for shelving.

In this role you may also assist with general administration, collection maintenance, filing and shelving which may require moving boxes of materials and moving heavy books.

As part of this role the Library Assistant (filer/shelver) may be required to work at either Parkes or our storage facility at Hume.

This position reports to the Archivist and is responsible for basic collection maintenance including filing, documenting, processing and shelving library, archives and special collection materials. This position of Library Assistant is a non-ongoing casual role with the Research Library and Archives team.

CONTACT

Further information about the position may be obtained by contacting Elizabeth Little, Manager Research Library & Archives on +61 2 6240 6465 or elizabeth.little@nga.gov.au or Simon Underschultz, Archivist on +61 2 6420 6493 or simon.underschultz@nga.gov.au.